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How divided Congress has become over the last 60 years

submitted by Joe Motion

(lurgee)
8 years 4 months 2 weeks ago

Congress
, divided

t's news to no one that Congress has had a hard time passing legislation in recent years. Some have even asserted that partisanship in Washington has reached historic levels. But how do we put the current divide in perspective? A group of researchers recently tried to quantify and visualize House partisanship in a paper published in PLoS ONE.

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That was a really interesting visual.

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, July 7th, 2016 11:46am PDT - promote requested by Januari.

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lawrence lessig-we the people the republic we must reclaim has been added as a related post - related requested by notarobot.

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mitosis?

also reminds me of how gravity forms the chaos of the cosmos into defined, orderly, separate planetary bodies. the swirl of chaotic matter violently smashing into each other, slowly grinding down anything caught in the middle of the cosmic clash.

mitosis?

I think this goes a long way to showing my hypothesis that the schism between the two sides really started with the rise of right wing radio, then the furthering of it by Fox News and the really big split after the rise of social media like Facebook, is correct. The echo chambers started growing more and more, and politicians, rather than work with one another became more and more cemented on their respective sides.

Life wouldn't be without compromise, this is not a good sign.

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