As I was saying Mrs, your children were mauled by a bear, not a lion. They are very different animals, not even in the same family. Also this lion is racist.
They don't have to be "literally the same" for controlled opposition to prevent meaningful change.
Actually I think people who try and paper over important problems with their own party are the ones preventing meaningful change.
This goes hand-in-hand with political stereotyping and is hard to avoid, annoyingly. (I am just as guilty of stereotyping, admittedly.)
But yeah, common views between parties should be a good thing. Sometimes those views absolutely are not "good", but that is what it is.
Party line voting in Congress is disgusting and it's not how governments should operate. On that note, bills shouldn't be written for the purpose of antagonizing an opposing party. I don't care who wrote it to begin with.
While there is a bit of truth in all politicians being the same, regardless of the party, it doesn't (shouldn't?) apply to ideologies as a whole. Unfortunately, it seems ideologies are dictated by the politicians and not the people, these days.
Ugh. What a twisted web we weave for ourselves....
I don't think you can really get rid of party line voting. Most voters don't want to or cannot spend much time researching politicians and mostly vote based on party preference. Elected representatives therefore need the support of their party for reelection, giving the party leverage.
