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What do you think?

I think both political parties act as if they know the reality of the world, but I think the conservatives tend to be dismissive, and I think think the liberals tend to be over-emphatical.

Conversation can be made between the two, it's been done before, and solutions can arise on both fronts, but being so oppositional & confrontational only makes it harder for both sides to make any ground.

Passion & indignance has its place too, but there has to be a time & place for it, or everything else will be overshadowed.

What do you guys think?

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SW-User

Discussion can only be had between parties willing to find a solution, not validation and censorship.

You can't just place a stereotype over the entire membership of either party as it is not a cohesive, hive-mind group of people.

There are discussions had and solutions found but non confrontational debate is not news worthy.

Winterwanderer · 26-30, M

Actually, I think the party system is a less extreme version of collectivism, sure I believe there are those who deviate, but they are more so the outliers than the norm. The thing about the party system is that it's oppositional & controversial, each party promotes its own beliefs as true (contemporarily, implying the other beliefs to be false).

The very nature of political parties implies a collection of people with similar beliefs, there being only two only allows for only the values & beliefs of two groups to be promoted to all.

Now it doesn't have to be this way, there are other way the system could change, but the nature of two opposing parties with two different beliefs is: opposition & two general belief systems.