Why Your Partisanship is as Bad as Theirs

Everyday, you hear on the news about some new gridlock in Washington between Democrats and Republicans in Congress. You hear people complaining about how we can't get anything done, and how our Congress is failing at their jobs. Well, it's more then just Congress. The source of the problem is you, The People. Without The People, our government can't function, and when the People are just as politically polarized as the politicians in Washington, there is a real problem. People throwing insults across the ideology spectrum is just as harmful to the political stability of our nation, as Congress not passing bills. This is because the same people that are arguing about gun rights, abortion, the NSA, calling Obama a communist, and saying conservatives want to destroy the middle class, are the people who decide who goes into Congress. So when people in Texas are voting in Ultra-Conservatives, while people in California are voting in neo-Liberals to the same House of Congress, this causes gridlock. This is the reason I started this blog. I want to break down the ideological barrier, and bring Liberals, and Conservatives together on a middle ground, and to look past the empty rhetoric, and campaign bashing on television. When you, The People are just as bad as the people in Congress when it comes to ideological polarization, that's what really causes the gridlock. The people we vote in to represent our views do exactly that, represent our views. They can only do so as their constituents dictate. If the nation as a whole is fighting from extreme sides of the spectrum then the Congressmen that represent these viewpoints will be just as horribly polarized. So, think about that the next time you claim that Obama is an authoritarian communist, or say that liberals want to take your guns, or anything dictating an extreme ideological polarization, and perhaps, as a whole we should look further into the views, and reasonings behind politicians we vote in, and see beyond the sound bytes and insults seen within the mass media. It's your choice, not theirs.
-Jake