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Toad: US Doesn’t Want Compromise

Toadman: I don't believe anymore that Americans want compromise. I don't believe anymore that Americans want bi-partisainship or “working together-ness” or any other pie-in-the-sky dreamy political nonsense. I think Republicans and Democrats are completely at odds with each other and will never be able to amicably work together and do anything meaningful to help average citizens. The divide is too deep. The worldviews too far apart. I no longer believe in the American people in general to be a reasonably thinking entity at all. Individuals, yes, as a society, no.

Question: Does Toad have a point -- that Americans at this point are incapable of political compromise?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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