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It is unlikely that the sight & sound of politicians truly fighting for different agendas disgusts most Americans. Rather, it is all the fake, "partisan" Kabuki "reported" in the newsmedia that disgusts them. Real politics is and should be a contact sport played on a public field, but at present it's nothing of the sort. (Holly McLachlan)
Everything you wrote is true and has been commented on for a long time in various places. You write it well.
However, there is a big reason that we will not see the knock-down drag-out fights in our system. We would then see the utter corrupt nature of our democracy as one side tries to take from the other side via the awesome force of government power. Or both sides taking from the poor as they normally do. (the real poor never have a side -- only charlatans claiming them)
No, I do not think the organized gangs called political parties would look very pretty in the long run if they truly were up front with their agenda.
