I recommend reading Ezra Klein's two recent pieces on polarization and the filibuster, here and here, which focus on the important idea of how institutions filter preferences: Snowe’s retirement will have many lamenting the endangered moderate and wondering how we can turn back the clock. But we can’t. About that, Snowe is right. Polarization is with us now and will be with us for the foreseeable future. The question is whether we will permit it to paralyze our political system and undermine our country or whether we will accept it and make the necessary accommodations.
Polarization and the filibuster
Polarization and the filibuster
Polarization and the filibuster
I recommend reading Ezra Klein's two recent pieces on polarization and the filibuster, here and here, which focus on the important idea of how institutions filter preferences: Snowe’s retirement will have many lamenting the endangered moderate and wondering how we can turn back the clock. But we can’t. About that, Snowe is right. Polarization is with us now and will be with us for the foreseeable future. The question is whether we will permit it to paralyze our political system and undermine our country or whether we will accept it and make the necessary accommodations.