Your Thoughts?

We will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while Democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. “This is the behavior of obstructionist losers, not legislators. When Democrats start paying our armed forces and first responders we will reopen negotiations on immigration reform.”

So, when negotiating something, does each party in the negotiation not have a responsibility to negotiate over that which the other party finds important? Would it not seem that saying "We will not negotiate" on (insert subject) mean that you are being an obstructionist? If so, who then is to blame for failure of the negotiations - the one who wants to negotiate, or the one who does not want to negotiate?

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SW-User

The political party system should be controlled/removed from government.

frequentlyme · 70-79, M

@SW-User And replaced with what?

SW-User

@frequentlyme People who don't blindly follow a political party.

frequentlyme · 70-79, M

@SW-User Difficult, in my opinion, to do. If you don't have political parties, then you would have chaos worse than it is. Consider everyone going on their own beliefs - you would have hundreds of representatives all wanting something different. We would get less done with that, than we do now.

SW-User

@frequentlyme Perhaps. Just a possible idea that may potentially end up being better or worse than the current situation.

frequentlyme · 70-79, M

@SW-User I do think it hard to imagine anything worse than the current situation - it's a mess, and a disgrace.