“Health-Bowl 2010”
I don’t know about you but I’m SICK and tired of the health care debates! It just seems that this discussion about important issues concerning millions of Americans and their health and finances has devolved into a war of egos and prides between conservative and democratic politicians.
It has gotten so bad lately that I don’t even see this as a debate anymore; it’s just a one big football game. Yes, I just equated one of the most important political topics in recent history to the Super Bowl. But that’s really what it has become though. Conservatives and democrats a like don’t care as much about making health care reform right as they do beating the other side and getting re-elected.
For voters even it has devolved into this as well. For liberal and conservative voters it’s like watching your favorite football team play your most hated one. You don’t care whether your team deserves it or not you just want them to win and the other to lose more than anything.
But that’s the problem here, is that conservatives and liberals a like have devolved a reasonable political discussion like health care reform into a battle of football teams and that same feeling has been carried down to their “fans” or voters. And now neither side is willing to find a middle ground because there are no “ties” in the world of politics and in the end both sides just rather win than lose at this game. Either way, who ever wins, the American people lose.
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Good opinion piece (though I'm more optimistic about it), but you need to fix a few things:
ReplyDelete* "a war of egos" works, but I don't think there is such a thing as "a war of prides"
* Democrats alike
* The last sentence in P3 is a fused sentence (two sentences mashed together w/o the benefit of punctuation). You have a similar problem in the first sentence of P4.
* whoever (one word)
Awkward sentence: For voters even it has devolved into this as well.
How about: It has devolved into this for voters as well.
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