r/tuesday • u/Mexatt Rightwing Libertarian • Nov 18 '24
How the ‘Watergate Babies’ Broke American Politics
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/26/congress-broke-american-politics-218544/21 Upvotes
r/tuesday • u/Mexatt Rightwing Libertarian • Nov 18 '24
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u/TheDemonicEmperor Social Conservative Nov 18 '24
People really like to blame Gingrich for today's back-and-forth politics (because, of course, it's always Republicans that are to blame).
Gingrich was a reaction to what he'd already seen, just as McConnell in 2016 was a reaction to the culmination of partisan politics during the Bork nomination. People like Gingrich and McConnell weren't the deaths of bipartisanship, they were the coroners. They're a product of a time they grew up in.
The revolutionaries who wanted to fill every institution with partisan hacks were already storming Congress under Nixon and disrupting him at every turn. People like Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden oversaw and outright led the charge of making everything about the "opposing side" in the 70s and 80s (of course, before Biden suddenly turned around as a "bipartisan" guy when the tables were turned against him in the 90s).
The reason we can never fix Congress is because we're never actually honest about the causes. Again, always blaming the coroners rather than the instigators. And those causes are very simple: one party of progressives believe in complete government control of everything and that everything they believe in is a "right". So anyone who disagrees is a threat to their "rights". It's a conquest.