Comments on: We have met the enemy and he is us http://blog.longnow.org/2009/04/24/we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:54:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sam Penrose http://blog.longnow.org/2009/04/24/we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/comment-page-1/#comment-6853 Sam Penrose Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:12:09 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/04/24/we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/#comment-6853 "worst of all, politicians falling back on tired old partisan habits, furiously pointing fingers at anyone who dares to cross doctrinal lines in search of common solutions." Really? Which cross-doctrinal solutions do you see to climate change? I see a Democratic Party advancing (in CA and nationally) a fairly bold set of solutions that Long Now speakers such as Saul Griffith would fault only for their timidity being rejected by 90+% of Republicans as much too bold. On health care things are a little more complicated, but the same rough sketch fits: the Democrats are advancing a specific plan informed by a broad consensus of experts, and the Republicans oppose it without offering an alternative. The linked ideas that: - partisanship per se is a problem - many if not most good ideas tend to appeal across party divisions are simply false, at least in my inspection of current U.S. politics. “worst of all, politicians falling back on tired old partisan habits, furiously pointing fingers at anyone who dares to cross doctrinal lines in search of common solutions.”

Really? Which cross-doctrinal solutions do you see to climate change? I see a Democratic Party advancing (in CA and nationally) a fairly bold set of solutions that Long Now speakers such as Saul Griffith would fault only for their timidity being rejected by 90+% of Republicans as much too bold. On health care things are a little more complicated, but the same rough sketch fits: the Democrats are advancing a specific plan informed by a broad consensus of experts, and the Republicans oppose it without offering an alternative.

The linked ideas that:
– partisanship per se is a problem
– many if not most good ideas tend to appeal across party divisions
are simply false, at least in my inspection of current U.S. politics.

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