{"id":1528,"date":"2023-04-05T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T10:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/political-polarization\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T10:22:15","slug":"political-polarization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/political-polarization\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Polarization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Polarization in a physical body has to have a limit lest the polarized body break apart. (Imagine the distance between Earth&#39;s North and South poles &#8212; 8595.35 miles &#8212; increasing indefinitely.) It is no different with the body politic.&#0160; We will eventually break apart or be broken apart by an external force (how about the ChiComs in cahoots with the Russkis?) if our political polarization continues.&#0160; United we stand, divided we fall; come on now people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kYWiUErA9Kw\">let&#39;s get on the ball<\/a>.&#0160; We won&#39;t of course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Time was, when I read Mona Charen and George F. Will with quite a bit of approval. But then Trump came along and both lost their minds.&#0160; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/04\/04\/trump-indictment-presidential-election-george-will\/\">Here<\/a> is Will over at <em>The Washington [Com]Post<\/em>. Take a gander at the comments to gauge the level of present political polarization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Dear old Mona&#39;s latest outburst anent Trump is such that I cannot bring myself to sully my site by linking to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Do you want to hear some sane and characteristically brilliant commentary by a lion of the law?&#0160; <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v2g7ktq-my-legal-analysis-of-the-indictment.html\">Here<\/a> is Alan Dershowitz on the Trump indictment. (HT: Vito Caiati)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polarization in a physical body has to have a limit lest the polarized body break apart. (Imagine the distance between Earth&#39;s North and South poles &#8212; 8595.35 miles &#8212; increasing indefinitely.) It is no different with the body politic.&#0160; We will eventually break apart or be broken apart by an external force (how about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/political-polarization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Political Polarization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-pessimism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}