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>Our system of government really, really wasn't designed to handle politically polarized parties. We've had partisanship forever but mostly it was about competi
by ameister14 6y ago
>Our system of government really, really wasn't designed to handle politically polarized parties. We've had partisanship forever but mostly it was about competing for patronage rather than ideology.
The first hundred years of the US tend to disagree with that statement
- Symmetry 6y agoReally? What issues of principle would have the Democratic Republicans or the Federalists not been willing to abandon for the sake of the pork barrel, at least after Andrew Jackson? I will grant that the Republicans and Democrats initially had substantial ideological differences they weren't willing to compromise on but that immediately resulted in a civil war and then we were back to the normal state of affairs.