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to a representative democracy.
People squabble here because they have different viewpoints, a rift made wider by the fact that in the Internet age everybody seeks out only that information they are already predisposed to believe in the first place. This person gets all their info from firedoglake; that person reads policy at Ezra Klein's economics blog at WaPo. We're all walking around in our own little universes and creating tribal wars based on allegiances often based on nothing more than very primitive belief systems.
People fight about politics. They've been doing it since the founding of this nation. Only they had to sit around in coffee houses back then. Today, it's a click away, twenty-four seven, and decidedly more chaotic and tribalized.
No, politicians are not our parents, dysfuctional or otherwise. We are not their children. And we are certainly not each others' siblings.
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