Robert Reich: Questions, please

Mr. Reich - I’m nowhere near as smart as you, but I would ask if your views here don’t have the same fatal flaw - you want your world view, the Republican’s want their world view. Frankly, I don’t believe either of the extremes have the right view and hope that maybe everyone at the edge of the debates might just try to find a view that actually makes some promise for the rest of us who live here, pay the bills and want to see some progress instead of posturing. Like you - since I’m pretty sure you’re in the same 2% - I’m OK with a few bucks more in taxes if they are used wisely.

Could we just, please, get real and try to talk in ways that might find the compromises that will actually help our country move forward? I don’t have your credentials to say what those might be, but it seems to me that yelling at each other from the far left and right isn’t doing us any good. We need answers; not arguments. It doesn’t matter if I agree with you or not. My point is we need to get ideology out of here and find compromises that actually help our country. Compromises are all we have since we aren’t all going to agree.

I don’t know which side is correct - and that’s not my point. I do think that the polarization is hurting us. We need to work together to find solutions instead of pushing positions instead of solutions.

Am I wrong? Is ideology more important than solving our problems? Can we solve our problems without compromise? Is being ‘correct’ more important than the success of our nation? I’m not smart enough to know but I’m smart enough to worry about it and to see that it isn’t working now and worry about it.

That said, I do appreciate your posts and point of view - even when I don’t agree.

robertreich:

Apart from its extraordinary cost and regressive tilt, the tax deal negotiated between the President and the Republicans has another fatal flaw.

It confirms the Republican worldview.

Americans want to know what happened to the economy and how to fix it. At least Republicans have a story – the…

Reblogged for rtrviews’ good response to a post that got me in a bit of an annoyed tither earlier in the day.

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