Why are Republicans and Democrats sooo afraid to find middle ground?!?

Question

Like why don’t we help each other out and diversify the opportunity for individuals on both sides of the aisle?

“I will vote for a do-good Republican who puts country first and you should be open to doing the same for a do-good Democrat who puts country first.”

There is a running Democrat right now who ran a solar energy business, balanced a state budget 8 years in a row. He made his own independent judgments about Kavanaugh,

he is fiscally responsible, he improved school infrastructure in his state as Governor, and he is willing to work across both sides of the aisle. He is a Moderate, he was endorsed by Taylor Swift.

He is the former Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen. He is a GOOD guy! He is pro-business

Why oh why don’t we want people like this to unite the country?

Just as Kasich of Ohio, a Republican Moderate, and Jeb Bush, these guys have a respect for people and diversity and country

Why can’t we get some middle ground, bat for America, and stop playing these games of blue states and red states and creating a prisoner’s dilemma that’s BAD for America?

Answer 1

Democrats already are in the middle (unfortunately). Obama and Clinton are centrists by any minimally sane definition. Republicans are extreme right and have been for 40 years. The problem is entirely with the them.



OK, not entirely. The Democrats need to move left. The left has been marginalized in the country for those same 40 years, and that's precisely the reason this country has gone down the toilet during that time.



People are turning to Trumpist fascism in part because no other alternative has been presented.



Ultimately the main problem is the 2-party system. Apparently the founding fathers designed our winner-take-all electoral system under the assumption that Americans would never coalesce into parties. This was a tragic miscalculation.



Another problem is the anti-majoritarian organization of the Senate and electoral college. If our system were truly representative the left would dominate, rather than being marginalized.



These are some very old, and very pernicious bugs.

Answer 2

why do you cling to a voting-system that bans "third" parties?



Why are you talking about "middle" when the Democrats didn't even field a moderate leftist like Bernie Sanders?

Answer 3

Absolutely, when the liberals stop having emotional breakdowns every time they don't get their way. They can think civil and not start name calling. Then I can meet in the middle.

Answer 4

Exactly! Party line only politics is killing this country! We need moderates and educated voters who vote Person not Party.

Answer 5

What did republicans ever get from working with Democrats? From where I sit republicans lost everything by doing it. Now the country is left wing economically, socially liberal, has high taxes, tons welfare, and high levels of market regulation.



I don't like what the US has become and I refuse to be party to making it worse.

Answer 6

look at any "news" outlet....read the headlines....ask yourself this question: am I being delivered information or prompted to have a strong feeling?



look at the popular movies and tv shows...ask yourself this question: am I being entertained or stimulated to have a strong feeling?



the simple fact is that too many folks politics are relying on what advertisers, hucksters and cultists have known for ages: people in an emotional state are more prone to buy whatever it is you are selling...



extremism will exist so long as it is profitable... and it will be profitable as long as consumers do more feeling than thinking...



therefore, it is up to us to find that "middle ground" among ourselves first...

Answer 7

Think about balance. If you put weight on one side of a scale, you have to put weight on the other side to balance it. As democrats willingly move further to the left, republicans are forced to move further to the right to keep balance. With both sides heading in opposite directions, the middle ground gets further and further away.

Answer 8

On many issues there is no middle ground. For example, protecting the rights of LBGQT people is a yes or no thing.

Answer 9

Americas, by way of elections, are telling Washington not to capitulate to Democrat demands.

Answer 10

Because Republicans HATE gays like me, and Democrats DON't

Answer 11

The damn democrats are unwilling to find the middle ground that's the problem .There just apstructionist but that's what globalist do after all . Trump tried on many occasions to compromise but they wore not having it

Answer 12

Because Democrats are violent, bigoted, Radical Marxists, and Republicans are mostly a bunch of sissy Socialists, like Bush and Ryan. We need a King! "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matthew 3:2, KJV). Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

Answer 13

Remember all the rioting conservatives did when Obama was elected the first time? No? Me neither. Because it didn t happen.

What about all the rioting, car burning, and looting when Obama was elected the second time? Remember that? No? Sure you don t, because it didn t happen.



Democrats and liberals - they are the party of You are either with us or against us . They have no middle ground. It is all of nothing to them. And no matter what middle ground is found - it has never, ever, been enough for them.



America has real issue to deal with - trade, economy, unemployment, failing infrastructures like old roads and bridges that need to be addressed. What did we get with Obama? Gay rights and bathroom issues. Twice I was laid off during the Obama administration...….. and I got to watch illegal aliens get more benefits than my own family born and raised here. If you don t see something wrong with that - then you have got to be an idiot and not an American.

Answer 14

Do you see a bunch of Democrats wanting middle ground last 2 decades? Republicans went center right while the Democrats went far left. We cannot deal with socialists and progressives.

Answer 15

I think it's a power thing. Neither one wants to give up to much. Sadly for our country.

Answer 16

there all nuts

Answer 17

Because the time to change the system has come. We are tired of the government dysfunction ,and discrimination against white people in this country. There is no way that we will compromise with the democratic party which hates white people ,and wants to make us an oppressed minority in the United States.

Answer 18

Because if one side gives the other side, an inch, then that side will take a mile. That's why.

Answer 19

What the country needs is abolition of two-party politics. If we have at least three reasonable large parties and yet keep the majority requirements, then NOBODY gets what they want unless EVERYBODY caves in and agrees to split the pot.



And therein lies the answer to your question. Money. There is not enough to go around for everything that the country needs done, and the two sides cannot agree on the priorities to allocate that money. The country s debt is so large that we can t pay down the debt, maintain the roads, maintain national defense, manage the federal law enforcement groups internally, manage social services, and support education. Plus all of the other things we need to manage. And EVERYONE wants full funding for their pet project but they don t give a hoot about anyone else. So there is not enough money to go around. THAT is why the two sides cannot find middle ground.



Which leads to the "real" answer to that question: The reasons neither side can yield to the other is that neither side wants to risk saying "NO" to further expansion of benefits to those who elected them, particularly when other constituents from other areas want THEIR favorite project funded in THEIR area, damn the other money-grubbing no-goodniks from other areas.



It s actually equivalent to a shark feeding frenzy.

Answer 20

Because they both suck.

Answer 21

Because he would give dems, not just himself, power in congress. It is that simple. Do you want higher taxes, investigations, impeachments, and years of dem control of congress.



He may be a great guy, but right now the risk of giving dems the majority in congress is just too high.

Answer 22

i think a lot of people often struggle to understand politics everywhere, because of what i think is a very popular delusion that politics, ideology, government, the organization of society in general, is essentially based on rational thinking, which it isn't, and never has been, and which I would tell you it never can be. not here or anywhere else. and i doubt it would necessarily be a good thing if anyone ever did manage it either.



there's a lot of *rationalization* in politics, but that's not the same thing at all.



i do think the us deserves a few points for at least having *tried* to whack together something along those lines, at least according to their own rhetoric anyway.



and they've famously had some success with it over the past century or so, you could say. but a century, or even 2 centuries, isn't all that long in terms of human history. rome lasted a lot longer, in a few forms, lots of nations have. spain had enormous success and was kind of an imperial superpower for quite a while, until they managed to p iss all that away.



people are strange creatures, with their smear of rationality cells pasted to the fronts of their otherwise wholly animal brains. but their behavior, especially in groups, remains largely the utterly unthinking, chaotic thing it was when they were still running around the savannah chasing big animals with sticks for the meat. rationality has allowed them to amplify and enlarge their influence through social organization, but i really don't think anyone at all can honestly say they've ever really ever achieved any kind of "rational," stable control of those organizations, not over any real span of time.



if that answers your question. gotta go.

Answer 23

Democrats have always been too ready to go to a middle ground and have already ceded too much ground to the Republicans. The Republicans have moved far to the right and are now openly embracing the alt right extremists for fear of being primaried by the rabid Trump base.



Moderates are being forced out of the Republican Party. Democrats are left with no choice but to push back and pull further away from the toxic influence of the far right.

Answer 24

Republicans who dare to find middle ground with Democrats are labelled RINOs and lose primaries to Republicans who promise never to work with Democrats on anything. Democrats don't want to work with Republicans who refuse to stay in the middle ground and demand everything be done the Republican way.

Answer 25

The liberal state run media is turning millenials red. Like Gods face.

Answer 26

Democrats its either my way, or no way. Republicans have tried to find middle ground l, but had to give up because of the Democrats refusing to do so.