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Originally Posted by Adder
Have you considered the possibility that one reason we're so polarized might be that we have an intentionally unrepresentative federal government?
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Of course. What do you think got Trump elected? When the Ds are in, the conservatives feel unrepresented. When the Rs are in, liberals and progressives feel unrepresented.
Nobody recalls, you can’t always get what you want. And sometimes, you don’t even get what you think you need.
For 8 years, we heard rabid Bush hatred. For 8 more, we heard rabid Obama hatred. Trump is a ratcheting up of the process. Whatever follows him will be an extreme reaction to him. It appears likely to go one of two ways. Either a moderate is elected as a reaction to and rejection of the craziness that was Trump, or an extreme progressive will be elected as a fight-fire-with-Fire response to Trump.
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