George Adams notes:
As I said in a previous post, 51% of the voters in the country sent a message
to the remaining 49%, but they just don't get it, and based on your post, I
doubt they ever will.

I get the message perhaps, but not the great significance. What it should mean
is that the elected should work on the few items on which way more than 50%
agree need to be worked on, and avoid any radical ones which lead to the 50/50
divide, and go forward. I suspect that the bulk of the electorate on both sides
want protection from terrorists, simpler,fairer taxation and fiscal
responsibility. Addressing those three issues sensibly would win bipartisan
support. No one has a mandate to go forward with closing down Social Security
or other Federal Social programs, spending huge sums "democratizing" the
Islamic world or altering the Constitution just to clarify the marriage rules.
Some, I see with distress today, would seem to feel that they do. If the
attitude persists, the divisions persist. If we stay divided and constantly out
of consensus, we strike those that would harm us as sitting ducks.
Ultimately,we stay divided,and divisive, long enough, and we are dead in the
water. It is that simple. Now, George, what part didn't I get?
Tom