gch21
2012-01-27 04:04:12
I think your article lays out symptoms of the problem and leaves out a critical part of the structure. Politics is polarized, but so is the electorate. To some degree even the hard idealogies are polarized within themselves, even though at voting time they will likely vote together. Politics is reflecting what is.
I think some of the causation is that there are no givens anymore, that so many things are decided to be relatives, that it is hard to do anything in unity. In fact there can’t be anything but polarization under those conditions because there is a genuine, hard, and valid disagreement about them. Pragmatic can even look different depending on which side of the fence you view it from.
