Who else would like politics to be humdrum?

[David Horn]

(01-13-2022, 03:26 PM)Anthony Wrote: While I'm not old enough to remember when Truman and his "vital-center liberals" (as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called them) "dueled" with Eisenhower's "modern Republicans" for control of the country, I sure hope that I live long enough to see that arrangement - or something closely resembling it - return.

But this, of course, will require the Culture Wars to end - and so long as the fires of Roe v. Wade and what if anything to do about it continue to rage, that will clearly not happen.

I think you miss the point here.  Most of America is monolithic in the political sense of the term.  I've lived in Blue areas and Red areas, and the lonly chane I've seen in my 50+ adult years is an ongoing decline in tolerance by both for the other.  Of the two, the Blue areas support more rational ideas of how we soujld lieve, and the Red areas are simply ready for a fight.  Yes, our culture wars exacerbate the problem, but it's been there for a long, long time.  

Don't hold your breath for a return of comity.  That takes a massive crisis to trigger, and, so far, our crisis is mostly virtue signaling and demogoguery.  If it turns violen, then the aftermath will be you desire ... or ashes.