George will asks why the bitterness between the parties, when there is little difference in the way they propose to govern:
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So why the bitter sense, on both sides, of apocalypse soon if the other side prevails? Because at long last we have the parties that intellectuals have long wanted.
Until now America has never had an almost complete congruence between ideological and party identities. A great sorting out has put almost all liberals in one party, conservatives in the other. Intellectuals, with their hankering for clarity and coherence, have long desired this condition. Europe has long had it. Now that Americans have it, their politics has become what it is.
The tone-setting activists of both parties exemplify an unpleasant product of modern government -- the entitlement mentality. They believe not merely that their party deserves to govern because of the superior wisdom of its policies, but that they are entitled to govern because of their moral and intellectual superiority
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