The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(11-06-2022, 07:43 AM)tg63 Wrote:

(11-02-2022, 08:20 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: ...
In my opinion, that's....exactly what "extreme partisan divides" look like in practice. Regardless of political affiliation, I think it's important for everyone to ask "what are some rational criticisms someone might have of my viewpoints or solutions?" Neither the US government (either party), nor the mass media have even come close to honestly asking themselves this question, and the result is a futile, 3-way stalemate between insular elites who have no idea what 80% of the population really wants, and that 80% of the population bifurcating into two sides of angry populists railing against each other and the government/media/tech/corporate elite and their constituents.

I suppose the difference here is whether a 4T is resolved through reasoned negotiation, or through one side winning the court of public opinion (or the war, or whatever). If it's the latter, then that reasonable question never needs to get asked, let alone resolved.

We may get the opportunity to know first hand, but a good analog to today is how the ACW and Reconstruction played out.  Yes, the North won the war, but the South won the peace.  It took 100 years for the Civil Rights movement to finaly start to dismantle the after effects, and now we're back trying to reestablish inequality yet again.  I suspect that this is an unachievable effort, because it will rear it will rear its ugly head as soon as complacency sets in.