"This politicization of everything isn’t the result of a hyper partisan culture—it’s part of the reason for it. ... And to interject government into an aspect of our lives is to interject political controversy.
In fact, this is precisely why government is not well equipped to control things like education, healthcare or retirement—because government control inevitably means such important areas of our lives will become campaign fodder for partisan politicians.
When government controls huge swaths of our economic and social lives through regulation, taxation and direct monopoly control (such as education), partisan politics suddenly have tremendous impact on how Americans are allowed to live their lives.
With that understanding, on some level, outrage and obsessively partisan political disagreements suddenly start to make some sense. ..."
The New Intolerant America - Nevada Business Magazine Americans of all ideological stripes are growing more intolerant of people who don’t share their political outlook.
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