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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 3074270" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/opinion/trump-republicans.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Trump Says Jump. His Supporters Ask, How High?</strong></span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/opinion/trump-republicans.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The title is misleading, but it's an interesting article about the partisanship of our nation.</span></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"...Citizens’ perceptions of parties’ policy stands and their own policy views are significantly colored by their party preferences. Even on purely factual questions with clear right answers, citizens are sometimes willing to believe the opposite if it makes them feel better about their partisanship and vote choices..."</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"...Citizens pick a team, but they don’t naturally think like the team leadership does. And when Trump tells Republicans to think in a new way, lots of people happily adopt that new position because they were never that committed to the old ideas anyway. They’re just committed to the label..."</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"...<strong>American politics is less a competition of ideas and more a struggle between two teams</strong>. In other words, insofar as elections have become primal struggles, and political competition has devolved into an atavistic spectacle, the prospect for a return to a politics of compromise and consensus approaches zero, no matter what temporary accommodations professional politicians make."</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 3074270, member: 18225"] [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/opinion/trump-republicans.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region'][SIZE=4][B]Trump Says Jump. His Supporters Ask, How High?[/B] [B][/B][/SIZE][/URL] [SIZE=4]The title is misleading, but it's an interesting article about the partisanship of our nation.[/SIZE] [I] "...Citizens’ perceptions of parties’ policy stands and their own policy views are significantly colored by their party preferences. Even on purely factual questions with clear right answers, citizens are sometimes willing to believe the opposite if it makes them feel better about their partisanship and vote choices..." "...Citizens pick a team, but they don’t naturally think like the team leadership does. And when Trump tells Republicans to think in a new way, lots of people happily adopt that new position because they were never that committed to the old ideas anyway. They’re just committed to the label..." "...[B]American politics is less a competition of ideas and more a struggle between two teams[/B]. In other words, insofar as elections have become primal struggles, and political competition has devolved into an atavistic spectacle, the prospect for a return to a politics of compromise and consensus approaches zero, no matter what temporary accommodations professional politicians make."[/I] [/QUOTE]
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