Historical February–March 2018 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Politics and history have been my vocation and avocation for most of my life.
In this neighborhood, a number of people share this orientation to some extent but for most Americans it would be an anomaly. Americans, according to survey research, pay less attention to political and governmental happenings than citizens of most other countries. Hence, a number of us lack a framework from which to evaluate campaign promises, campaign ads, or daily events in our capital.
This has contributed to the sharpening of division between the political parties and within the parties. Regrettably, our political system needs compromise to operate; sharp ideological differences historically have been better handled in a parliamentary form of government. Our national schism echoes elsewhere in the world. Here, the situation suffers from negative ads, explosive rhetoric, unsubstantiated information. People seem to buy into the ideas and rhetoric of the group with which they identify and do not accept a factual evaluation of plans.
I don’t have an answer to this dangerous trend.
I have my own ideological bias. What bothers me most is a change in position that is openly stated and then is changed later and the first position is denied.or people who deny something,despite evidence to the contrary. Our opponents become enemies.
There is no middle ground.
It is Orwellian.
We have some divisions in Skinker DeBaliviere. Historically, however, people who have been on opposite sides then come together.
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Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, February–March 2018.
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