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| A symptom of larger fracturing |
... the fracturing movements in America today are much more numerous than that. I need not point out the divisiveness of our national political culture, for which both sides will insist the other bears total responsibility from now until the sun has burned to cinder.Comes now Roger Simon who offers a short assessment of the fracturing in our national polity in all three branches.
Nothing is debated seriously. Hatred is everywhere from the public sphere to our split families.
As Chris Cillizza notes, Marco Rubio is to be praised for putting his finger on this situation in a speech in the Senate the other day after they finally told Elizabeth Warren to sit down and shut up. Some key Rubio quotes:
“I don't know of a civilization in the history of the world that's been able to solve its problems when half the people in a country absolutely hate the other half of the people in that country.”
But this will fall on deaf ears. I have tried to be a serious student of American history, and what I hear and see today seems frighteningly similar to the national polity of the 1850s. And that did not end well.“We are becoming a society incapable of having debate anymore.”
“We are reaching a point in this republic where we are not going to be able to solve the simplest of issues because everyone is putting themselves in a corner where everyone hates everybody.”
“What's at stake here tonight … is not simply some rule but the ability of the most important nation on earth to debate in a productive and respectful way the pressing issues before it.”
End note: OTOH, is the California secession movement only a Republican plot?
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