tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post5156370545262278760..comments2024-03-28T00:11:33.489-04:00Comments on bensozia: Too Much Politics?Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-35272757426391116252017-02-01T09:42:19.029-05:002017-02-01T09:42:19.029-05:00I feel the same thing in the country. Part of the...I feel the same thing in the country. Part of the reason for this situation is, I think, that we really are divided over profound issues. The divisiveness isn't necessarily some sort of mistake or byway that we've wandered down and can solve with a course correction. It's the real, honest state of the population, or large parts of it.<br /><br />I've been wondering if the best historical model might not be seventeenth-century England. Cavaliers and Roundheads were divided over issues of personal identity and the styles that reflected identity, but also over issues of profound belief and over policy. The outcome then, by the 1690s, was not the victory of either party but rather, their mutual exhaustion, and a profoundly new dispensation very different from both.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08993570411881726772noreply@blogger.com