Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Can We Save Our Country from Partisan Poison?

Wed. June 27, 2012:

Gentle readers, here is one of the more thoughtful pieces spelling out the depth of
our democratic republic's partisanship disease [the raison d'ĂȘtre, we recall, for our modest blog],
plus, hints of what to do about it:
                                                     
                                                           commentator Clive Crook

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-26/health-care-debate-shows-deeper-political-sickness.html



Need more evidence?

1.  Here is a whole website dedicated to a fair mix of views from both sides of the political spectrum.  It is a great site, but each item demonstrates exactly what Clive Crook was saying, above.  http://www.realclearpolitics.com/?state=nwa

2.  David Brooks tried to go at this subject too, a few days ago.  Notice the partisan flak he catches, from both sides:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/opinion/the-great-divide-between-the-political-parties.html

2 comments:

  1. Clive, unlike RMN, may be a crook, but he sure did a great job in that column. Thanks be to the Biter.

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  2. all this talk... but there is so much raw stupidity in this nation... see example here of morons who dont know canada has universal govt health care - http://tinyurl.com/7yxawxc . geez my country

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