posted June 19, 2011 08:12 AM            

I did not because this article is much more than that one subject. It offers analysis of our political divide. A chasm that has widened and deepened alarmingly in the last 10 years. The following quote is not found in the link I am posting, just part of another article. when Lindaland is down do we read more?? I do...

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What we lost during the first decade of this century is still being assessed and is likely immeasurable. Obama, a man who apparently wastes no energy on battles he thinks he can’t win, inherited a country intentionally broken, and yet has passed through more progressive legislation than the nation has seen in 40 years, mostly without the approval of progressives. I wish Obama and his leftie base could come to the table now. It’s the worst possible timing for a feud, as we consider strategy for another Democratic term, up against frightening economic statistics. All that’s been accomplished, while battling a wall of Republican obstruction, is only a drop in the bucket of what is needed to stabilize the economic free-fall that threatens us from within~J.Gayle

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On climate change, our politcal polarization, intellectuals, and more

posted June 21, 2011 01:14 PM            

It is long.

2 quotes I like...

It’s not as if all the brains are on one side, and there’s a total lack of them on the other. So before glorying in the fact that we have more facts, liberals might consider first blowing into an intellectual breathalyzer, to be sure we’re not too intoxicated by our own seeming brilliance. After all, one thing our expertise does not appear to be doing is bringing the country back from the brink of a fully postmodern and fact-free discourse. In fact, it may even be contributing to the problem.

Indeed, conservatives are about where liberals were back in the 1970s. As a result, the researchers write, “more so than ever before the highly educated comprise a key constituency for American liberalism and the Democratic Party, one that may have surpassed a crucial threshold level in size.”