Ideology / partisanship is so strong, Americans are willing to allow America to "die" for the sake of their singular ideological beliefs that are not perfect, not completely correct, nor always beneficial to our country in every situation. Only compromise can save America. Meeting each other half way is mandatory to our survival. There are parts of conservative values and liberal values that can live side by side.
Partisan Ideology restrains our government from passing good legislation! In budget choices, for example, some things are obvious to provide, like Meals on Wheels to poor elderly with no family, and some obvious to not provide, like tax breaks for the rich.
America suffers immensely by allowing health care to be a commodity. On the whole, while the best health care is available when Americans can afford it, adequate health care is NOT available to the majority of Americans. Arguing health care is not a right literally kills people.
Will people someday realize that hard core partisan ideology and ideologues are not beneficial to society, and in fact are destructive to America?
"Dilettantes, Ideologues, and the Weak: Terrorists Who Don't Kill"
By Victor Asal Victor Asal
Department of Political Science Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy University at Albany State University of New York New York, USA, vasal@email.albany.edu
First Published September 1, 2008 Article Type: research-article
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07388940802219000
In the above there is a LONG list of references. The authors try to understand different forms of terrorism. To me, their work ALSO suggests a "terrorist" can be someone who is an ideologue on TV, but that is just MY reasoning. TV ideologues who might not mean to do so, CAN "kill" in a manner of speaking. By pushing their agenda as the only truth, they can cause others who accept their beliefs blindly to physically kill people.
"Abstract
Why do some terrorist organizations choose not to—or fail to—kill? Of the 395 terrorist organizations operating between 1998 and 2005 only 39% had actually killed anyone. What factors account for this outcome? This article examines a series of organizational factors, including ideology, capability, and “home-base” country context, that the literature suggests are related to the decision to “go lethal.” We then test six hypotheses using data from the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT). Our statistical modeling suggests that ideology, capabilities, and “dilettantism” explain a significant proportion of the variation in whether an organization chooses to kill or not to kill. Leftists, anarchists, and environmentalists are far less likely to kill than those organizations inspired by religious ideologies. Larger organizations and those with more alliance ties are more likely to kill, while others are too “dilatory” and unserious about the “terrorist enterprise” to become lethal."
"Ted Koppel Breaks the News to Sean Hannity: You’re ‘Bad for America’"
By Joe Lapointe • 03/27/17 7:00am
http://observer.com/2017/03/cbs-sunday-morning-ted-koppel-sean-hannity-bad-for-america/
"Sean Hannity Asks CBS Release All of His Ted Koppel Interview: ‘I Dare You’"
By Chris Ariens on Mar. 26, 2017
Rachel Maddow and other liberal ideologues are included in this criticism. We ALL need to stop using hard-core ideological positons to make our case for whatever we believe in. We need to work with facts, not ideology!
"Koppel’s story wasn’t a profile of Hannity, but rather how Hannity’s show, and those like it, exacerbate the divide, which led to a contentious moment:
Hannity: You think we’re bad for America? You think I’m bad for America.
Koppel: Yeah. Yeah. In the long haul I think you, and all these opinion shows…
Hannity: You do? Really? That’s sad.
Koppel: …because you’re very good at what you do and because you have attracted a significantly more influential…
Hannity: You are selling the American people short.
Koppel: Let me finish the sentence before you do that.
Hannity: I’m listening. With all due respect. Take the floor.
Koppel: You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts."
"WATCH: Ted Koppel tells Sean Hannity to his face that he’s bad for America “in the long haul”"
The veteran news anchor could not have spoken more bluntly in a sit-down interview with the Fox News host
Taylor Link, "Monday, Mar 27, 2017 08:22 AM EDT
I am certain Hannity feels his effort to press his ideology of conservatism is essential to "balance" the liberal, biased media and fight liberal shows like appear on MSNBC. Maybe he is right. BUT Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow, I think, depend too much on Americans being "smart," or at least, discerning. Too many Americans listen to the left and right ideologues to decide what to believe without doing any due diligence whatsoever.
Without due diligence to find the complete story and all he relevant facts we are all bound to the oblivion of failure. If we can never agree on anything, how do we get any work done?
Do we wait for a disaster to get anything done, when we have no choice but to work together?
American seem emotionally, i.e., unwilling, and intellectually, i.e., impatient and short-sighted, and uninformed / uncaring of / about history, i.e., so bound to repeat it, to do the hard work of thinking. It is hard work to get the whole story. It takes time too. Facts lead us to truth and sometimes the truth is inconvenient to our beliefs. This is a win-lose thing, and hard-core ideology leaves in all as loser in my estimation.
Nothing is simple, so simplistic, shoot from the hip solutions cannot solve complex issues like health care, deteriorating relations with Islam, avoiding wars, growing an economy, or finding peace in a new the World Order.
Having s real or fake PhD, saying you are "smart," bullying people to get what you want, none of that is what is needed.
"After the segment aired on Sunday, Hannity accused CBS’ “Sunday Morning” of having dishonestly edited the interview, purposefully leaving out parts that the Fox News host thought should have been included.
Hannity called on CBS to release the full 45-minute interview."
No thank you Sean. I couldn't take 45 minutes of you.
