Tuesday, August 26, 2014

BuyPartisan

It seems likely - especially through the lens of Strauss & Howe - that BuyPartisan won't make things hyper-partisan.

Or at least no worse than they already are.

Because we're past all that. The Unraveling is over, the Crisis started. Although partisanship is significant, it's not clear that it's worse than 10 years ago. (2004, for one obvious example, was the year of John Kerry campaigning against George W. Bush, which often felt like a struggle between anti-Democrats and anti-Republicans.) A case could be made that it peaked in 2008, just as the Crisis was starting.  Partisanship continued after - check the debates for the Affordable Care Act - and continues now, but you don't see the same amount of rancor. Even if there are "End of an Error 2017" shirts, they aren't as ubiquitous as the 2009 ones.

People want to know what they are getting, is all. Tools of the modern era help you to determine what's happening in the world around you, better than before.  Being able to make more educated decisions helps everyone.

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