One thing is clear, however: politically, we are a paranoid-schizophrenic nation. Maybe it’s the fault of social media and cable news, or maybe we’re just wired to expect the worst from one another, but whenever something big happens, we sprint immediately to the partisan barricades. Unrelated events and phenomena seem part of a larger plot—launched and directed, of course, by the other guys. It feels—to borrow the title of Charles Murray’s 2012 book—as if we are coming apart at the political seams. Maybe not since Watergate has America been this mentally and emotionally exhausted.
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That we ignored their warnings entirely and went straight to a two-party system is a testament, perhaps, to human nature.
Much that was human in nature transpired between 1780 and 2000, butBush v. Gore seems like the precursor to our downward spiral. September 11 and, later, the financial collapse, gave us frightening glimpses of how fragile our institutions really are.
http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon1203mh.html
MATTHEW HENNESSEY
American Exhaustion
We are having a political nervous breakdown.
December 3, 2015
[. . .]
That we ignored their warnings entirely and went straight to a two-party system is a testament, perhaps, to human nature.
Much that was human in nature transpired between 1780 and 2000, butBush v. Gore seems like the precursor to our downward spiral. September 11 and, later, the financial collapse, gave us frightening glimpses of how fragile our institutions really are.
http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon1203mh.html
MATTHEW HENNESSEY
American Exhaustion
We are having a political nervous breakdown.
December 3, 2015
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