What I find worse is the political dysfunction of extremism, which leads to endless partisan intransigence but no practical problem solving. I just wrote about this — an unfixable culture that cannot address and mitigate serious issues that are already undermining our society. The appeal of Trump and Sanders is that angry voters think they will make a difference because they aren’t of the establishment…but they won’t and can’t because they aren’t centrist/moderate in their approach to problems.

Compromise and consensus is where governance is in a modern democracy. Pretending that those outside the mainstream can fix anything without these being part of the process is truly delusional. I have two degrees in history and a very big picture view, and there is no historical basis for successful, sustainable governance outside of the middle. None.

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