BEGALA articulates my suspicion of Jon STEWART. I stopped trusting him.

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47. Saying we need more partisanship is just silly

The parties are more polarized than any time in at least the last 50 years. And we have a nearly completely dysfunctional government. That's an actual problem. It caused government shut downs and our credit being downgraded.

Yes a lot of it is that Republicans have taken a leap into batshit crazy, but there have to be some issues where Democrats and Republicans can work together. One of the real downsides to the parties and voters becoming more "correctly" aligned (as in fewer relative liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats) is that there are fewer issue by issue coalitions.

Both sides have escalated the use of filibusters in the Senate to the point where nothing happens.

But it's more than that. Look at how we (myself included at times) refer to Republicans. It's silly things like rethuglicans or repukes. We all find it obnoxious when Republicans call us the Democrat party. And yet we do the same.