September 15, 2017      12:46 PM
Smith: Is Politics Today A Content-free Shirts & Skins Sandlot Football Game?
QR’s Liberal Columnist Glenn W. Smith wonders whether tribal loyalty has replaced individual responsibility and engagement in today’s politics
I’ve
been critical of complaints about so-called “polarization” in American
politics. It can look like an easy out that allows pundits to pretend
“neutrality” using false equivalencies.
Against
this, I’ve suggested we consider two people in a room. One of them goes crazy.
The other doesn’t. We don’t say the room is polarized, do we? Where’s Donald Trump’s opposite pole? See what
I mean?
But
some recent studies and events in the political sphere have me second-guessing
my skepticism.
The full column by Glenn W. Smith is in the R&D Department.
By Glenn W. Smith
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