While, yeah, folks are polarized on national policies they are much more cooperative in their own communtities... I have been involved with Main Street programs in both Leesburg, Va. and now Luray, Va. MainStreet programs are cropping up all over American towns and cities and are 100% bi-partisan... Fold don't get into the national debates becuase they are too busy joining with one another to make their communities better...
Yeah, I know that a,ot of the folks who I have worked with and really care about probably voted for and supported Bush... Thet's their business...
Also, if we look around we also see alot more cooperation on state and local governments with bi-partisan forward movement on difficult issues of taxes and eductaion and transporation... Look at Virgina, for instance. A Democratic governor, Mark Warner, just ended a very successful term with a Republican controledl General Assembly... He did it by finding common ground... He actually got a Republican General Assembly to "raise taxes"...
The only real failure in our system is our federal governemnt which is bogged down in partisanship and for a good reason: it has gotten expensive to get re-elected and the only way to get dough isd to keep the bases stirred up and both parties do it very well... This is a systemic problem more than a conscious problem to go at each others throats...
And, yeah, many of us here in Mudville are cuaght up in it. For me, it's because of the the power grab by the Bushites and their terribly anti-human policies that play to their source of dough... If dough were taken out of the equation we would have a "kinder, gentler" federal governemnt...
Until then, yeah, I'll dfight against policies that I think are anti-human and anti-Earth...