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2020-09-11 22:58:59 UTC
True political centrists as well as the very sparse remnants of non
openly biased news media outlets analyse politics as if there was some
sort of equivalency between the political right and the left.
Political equivalency? What equivalency? Asymmetric polarisation proves
it to be a completely false assumption in all the major Anglophone
counties.
The hard right everywhere is ready to destroy political balance which
enables a semi-functional democracy to exist in capitalism.
This is how that happens in the US which leads the way in a chaotic march
towards outright fascism world wide:
*Admit it. Republicans have broken politics.*
/ VOX /
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[ Video length: 9 min 58 sec ]
"Neither party is perfect, but Republicans in Congress have been drifting
towards political extremism since long before Trump, and they’re making
it impossible for Congress to work the way it’s supposed to.
Over the past few decades, both Democrats and Republicans in Congress
have moved away from the center. But the Republican Party has moved
towards the extreme much more quickly -- a trend that political
scientists’ call “asymmetrical polarization.”
That asymmetry poses a major obstacle in American politics. As
Republicans have become more ideological, they’ve also become less
willing to work with Democrats: filibustering Democratic legislation,
refusing to consider Democratic appointees, and even shutting down the
government in order to force Democrats to give in to their demands.
Democrats have responded in turn, becoming more obstructionist as
Republican demands become more extreme.
And that’s made it really easy for media outlets to blame “both sides”
for political gridlock. As political scientists Thomas Mann and Norm
Ornstein explain in their book “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks,”
journalists feel a pressure to remain neutral when covering big political
fights. So politics coverage has been dominated by the myth that both
parties are equally to blame for the gridlock in DC.
But they’re not. And the only way to stop Republicans in Congress from
continuing their drift towards the extreme is to be brutally honest about
who’s responsible for breaking our politics."
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openly biased news media outlets analyse politics as if there was some
sort of equivalency between the political right and the left.
Political equivalency? What equivalency? Asymmetric polarisation proves
it to be a completely false assumption in all the major Anglophone
counties.
The hard right everywhere is ready to destroy political balance which
enables a semi-functional democracy to exist in capitalism.
This is how that happens in the US which leads the way in a chaotic march
towards outright fascism world wide:
*Admit it. Republicans have broken politics.*
/ VOX /
< >
[ Video length: 9 min 58 sec ]
"Neither party is perfect, but Republicans in Congress have been drifting
towards political extremism since long before Trump, and they’re making
it impossible for Congress to work the way it’s supposed to.
Over the past few decades, both Democrats and Republicans in Congress
have moved away from the center. But the Republican Party has moved
towards the extreme much more quickly -- a trend that political
scientists’ call “asymmetrical polarization.”
That asymmetry poses a major obstacle in American politics. As
Republicans have become more ideological, they’ve also become less
willing to work with Democrats: filibustering Democratic legislation,
refusing to consider Democratic appointees, and even shutting down the
government in order to force Democrats to give in to their demands.
Democrats have responded in turn, becoming more obstructionist as
Republican demands become more extreme.
And that’s made it really easy for media outlets to blame “both sides”
for political gridlock. As political scientists Thomas Mann and Norm
Ornstein explain in their book “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks,”
journalists feel a pressure to remain neutral when covering big political
fights. So politics coverage has been dominated by the myth that both
parties are equally to blame for the gridlock in DC.
But they’re not. And the only way to stop Republicans in Congress from
continuing their drift towards the extreme is to be brutally honest about
who’s responsible for breaking our politics."
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