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One slight correction to your "less idealistic view": It's not just (or at all) that one party believes they are the best to represent the whole, it's that the
by ergothus 11y ago
One slight correction to your "less idealistic view": It's not just (or at all) that one party believes they are the best to represent the whole, it's that they believe the other(s) are HARMFUL.
Ergo, disempowering that other voice is in everyones best interests.
While people can often do "evil" things (manipulative, etc), they usually do them for "good" reasons, at least according to their internal rationalizations. [citation needed :) ]
- rancur 11y agomaybe we should just set up states. half blue, half red. each get to do what they want, and everyone blue or red moves to blue or red state. We come back in 50 years, and see what's up. The blue states are spending gobs on tuition and everyone is still stupid, and the red states, I don't know someone help. I'm colorblind
- thephyber 11y agoThe US _has_ been mostly self-sorting for decades now. It's one of the reasons politics is so polarized right now and Congress is incapable of governing without a looming emergency. It's never as easy as just looking at the outcomes. As with any type of sociology, it's not possible to force large sets of people to do identical things for valid control+experimental groups. Methods of taxation, tax rates, size of state government, expectations of government services, natural resources, macroeconomic conditions, talent of the population, and natural economic benefits all distinguish different states. There's really no effective way to control for the large variety of conditions across many states.
- tomaskafka 11y agoNo. Red/blue map is an illusion. https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-we-just-split-up-the-United-States/answer/Ryan-Carlyle https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-we-just-split-up-the-United-S...