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A logical consequence of the increasing divide between the political tribes. As the opinions diverge the room for compromise gets smaller.
by partitioned 3y ago
A logical consequence of the increasing divide between the political tribes. As the opinions diverge the room for compromise gets smaller.
- rsynnott 3y agoWell, I think it’s more that the divide in the US (and some other places, but not everywhere) has become so much about _rights_. It’s very personal. I could (and have) relate to someone who has quite different views on _economic_ issues, but someone who wants to ban people from marrying or to ban abortion or what have you, yeah, not so much. In Ireland we have significant political divide, across multiple parties, but it’s largely not about rights on a party level. No party with elected representatives is campaigning on banning abortion or restricting LGBT rights or similar. And conversely when the abortion and equal marriage legalisation referendums were held, they had all-party support. Many _individuals_, of course, will have views that people might find abhorrent, but it’s less a case of “they vote for X so they must be a bad person”. EDIT: To be clear, there are _problems_ with this consensus-forming approach, where social progress kind of has to wait until everyone gets in line; in Ireland the abortion legalisation referendum passed by 67%, which would imply that it could have been held long before and since passed, of instance. I don't think it would work for the US case anyway; the US has a party actively trying to remove _existing_ rights, which is a very different sort of thing.