What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[Concillian]

The middle ground is boring as hell, and that's why no one vehemently argues its position in a debate like this.

That and when you argue the middle ground the left thinks you're right and the right thinks you're left, because people, especially people who regularly discuss politics, often see what strikes them and ignore what doesn't, so you start getting it from all sides.

My mom will sit there and quietly listen to you until you say something specific about one of her hot button issues (and she sits and watches Fox News ALL day every day, she has a lot of hot button issues). She will ignore the fact that you were saying things she agreed with for a few minutes and then launch into you over some very specific little thing you said.

It's what people do on the TV news shows, political debates, the senate and house floor, etc... It's like people are trained to ignore rationality and "win" at all costs, even if "winning" results in a lose-lose situation. Right or left doesn't matter. Most politicians do it, most right and left slanted media. They all argue over who's going to dust the mantle while a wrecking ball is taking out a bedroom or two. Sometimes it's right to agree to something you don't ideologically agree with just so you can just make some progress, but you won't find many politicians doing that. As soon as they do, someone will publicly fault them for it (their own party many times) and make it into a huge mess that grinds the whole political process to a halt for a week or so.

I think about politics from time to time, but I cannot seriously involve myself. The people are just plain irrational. At this point, I'm convinced that it's not possible to solve any of the real problems with the country and at some point the government will strangle itself in debt and we'll all be forced to start over. In the meantime, I think I might take some cues from government fiscal policy and start spending more than I earn every year. I mean, they're professionals and they've been doing it for 50 years straight or so, it must be a pretty good strategy, right?