POLI 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: George W. Bush, European Political Party, Sarah Palin
15 Jun 2018
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November 27th
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Last week we discussed non-constitutional organizations.
Political dysfunction
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heard by many people.
- Levels of partisanships dislike.
- It is ofte true that the preious days ere’t great. The ore history you ko the ore
nothing is new.
- Publius of the present.
- It is possible that it might seem more screwed up now because government have taken more
projects in hand.
- Folks nowadays often say things are quite bad today.
- Many believe that US is quite divided, politically, deographially…
- Levels of discourse is really low. Donald trump has degraded the political discourses.
- Little acceptance of differences.
- Little tolerance
- No basic civility
- Related issues:
o 1.is the US really divided ? if so how? And why?
o 2.Is the American public really divided? Or is the politics? Are the substantive divisions,
such as it is is exacerbated by bias from the media?
o 3.does that necessarily lead to disfunction? Could it not be the case that even if people
in party can still be compromise in civility?
- Some people say that it is supposed to be like that, governments body are supposed to butt in.
and things are supposed ot take time
J. Lepore
- polarization where it leads to getting nothing done.
- interesting article
Tom Mann + Norm Ornstein’s It’s een orse than it looks
- These guys argue about disfunction
- They say that things in 2012 & 2016 things are worse than before
- They are near record lows about congress, about 10%. Usually unpopular, still when it gets
approval in single digits its pretty bad.
- Also historically congress had issues agreeing which led to closing down the government
- Republicans during the Obama’s adiistratio, ould ote agaist legislatios that Oaa
would be for, but initially republicans wanted. They would go against Obama just because of the
partisanship
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