Posted on 09/30/2014 10:48:20 AM PDT by right-wing agnostic
In a recent op ed, Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein points out that “partyism” – prejudice against supporters of the opposing political party – is on the rise in America:
If you are a Democrat, would you marry a Republican? Would you be upset if your sister did?
Researchers have long asked such questions about race, and have found that along important dimensions, racial prejudice is decreasing. At the same time, party prejudice in the U.S. has jumped, infecting not only politics but also decisions about dating, marriage and hiring. By some measures, “partyism” now exceeds racial prejudice — which helps explain the intensity of some midterm election campaigns.
In 1960, 5 percent of Republicans and 4 percent of Democrats said that they would feel “displeased” if their son or daughter married outside their political party. By 2010, those numbers had reached 49 percent and 33 percent. Republicans have been found to like Democrats less than they like people on welfare or gays and lesbians. Democrats dislike Republicans more than they dislike big business.
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Cass Sunstein, a regular Joseph Goebbels for the modern era.
Yeah...where’s the antiwar movement? Where did they go? I haven’t seen them in years! (Six to be exact)
Jimmy Stewart, a lifelong Conservative Republican, and Henry Fonda, an eminent Liberal Democrat, were close friends in real life.
Of course that was before Democrats all turned raving batsh*t crazy and started personalizing all of their politics in the manner of Saul Alinsky.
What the hell kind of a weird comparison is that?
There are the issues of “shared values” (which are important when it comes to raising children and imparting your values on them) and with barking moonbat leftwingnuts, you have basic facts that they are unwilling to accept (Bush did not “cheat”, 9-11 was not an inside job, Reagan was not an “evil cowboy”...).
Difference of opinion at the polls is one thing, celebrating abortion as a sacrament, fearing the “global warming” scare unless you put your plastic bottles in the right compartment of the day’s garbage bin, etc... Who can endure 50 years of that in your household?
Partisan prejudice of this type can sometimes be beneficial. It occasionally allows a president of one party to adopt valuable reforms that the other party would be unable to push through because it would encounter too much resistance.
Or Richard Nixon's rapprochement to China. But it also allowed Democrats to lock arms and force 0bamacare down American throats without even bothering to read it. Of the two, that's far more dangerous.
Oh, BS.
The “anti-war movement” was nothing but an anti-Bush movement. It was never sincere.
I think the decline in the anti war movement has nothing to do with much more than the fact the GOP is not in charge.
When you’re psychotic people tend to back away.
His “partyism” just shows the polarization of society. 60 years ago, America had a widely accepted common culture, near universal shared experiences, and a broad base of accepted, non-stated and non negotiable basic beliefs on religion, economics, role of government, and morals.
The Left has destroyed that. Government has a large role in it as well. Americans no longer generally believe the same things and the gulf is getting bigger. The similarities that exist are cooked down to bland talking points for politics, media and entertainment.
It gave old hippies a chance to feel like kids again, and kids a chance to feel like hippies. War was beside the point.
The funny thing about this is the fact that Cass Sunstein’s wife (Samantha Power) is a very visible example of the kind of crazy that the democrats have become.
Sunstein himself is an insidious manipulator who has written extensively on how to manipulate Americans and herd them like cattle.
The dirty hippies are in charge now.
...racial prejudice is decreasing. At the same time, party prejudice in the U.S. has jumped...
My dad married a Democrat and in short order converted her into a dyed in the wool Republican. We still have her little gold elephant pin with black plastic frame Barry Goldwater glasses from the ‘64 campaign. But other than that my family on my father’s side has despised Democrats starting with my great grandfather and his service in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (Vicksburg Siege, etc.). So I guess we were trend setters.
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