Re: The Partisan Mind
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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> But for the country as a whole, partisanship does have one modest virtue. It guarantees that even when there’s an elite consensus behind whatever the ruling party wants to do (whether it’s invading Iraq or passing Obamacare), there will always be a reasonably passionate opposition as well. Yes, I was going to make that point. Doesn't necessarily matter *who* the opposition is, as long as there is one. ;) Also, remember the saying, "Only Nixon could go to China?" Was that the same issue at work, Republicans wouldn't have gone along if it had been a Democratic president? -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot