Here is Why Liberals Think Politics is so Bad Today

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Here is Why Liberals Think Politics is so Bad Today

 

May 23, 2012 | Posted by Warner Todd Huston

 

The Washington Post published a long Op Ed by a pair of think tankers pretending at both being “centrists” and offering an unbiased analysis of why politics has gotten so “partisan” these days. The pair also claim they know how to end this messy partisanship. But what they wrote is a perfect example of why things have become so polarized, not an example of how to fix anything.

The authors, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, published theirs headlined, “Want to end partisan politics? Here’s what won’t work — and what will,” a piece filled with all sorts of claims, pseudo analysis, and offers of solutions. The piece is practically one long paean to liberalism as opposed to serious analysis, but it does do one thing successfully. It shows us why the public debate has gotten bad not for its analysis and solutions but for the left-wing ideological underpinnings of their arguments.

The pair start with five solutions they think we should avoid, the first being a propensity to invest our hopes in a third party. On its face, this is correct. Third parties are now and always have been a joke in the U.S. system. They have never been worth anything other than a sideshow act. Only once did a third party ever make major headway and that was Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party — with which he almost won another shot at the White House — but once TR was gone the party collapsed.

It isn’t their insistence that third parties are a waste of time — they are right there — but it is in Mann and Ornstein’s analysis right there in the sixth paragraph that shows their bias and proves why partisanship is so bad today.

What they say in analysis in that paragraph and throughout the piece shows that they think that left-wing, liberalism is normal, it is the baseline measurement for what America should do and how it should think. So, naturally they think politics is terrible when the country doesn’t go far enough left to suit them.

Here is what they wrote in that sixth paragraph:

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