{"id":3925,"date":"2007-12-14T01:38:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T08:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/14\/why-we-shouldnt-long-for-bipartisan-cooperation\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T01:38:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T08:58:30","slug":"why-we-shouldnt-long-for-bipartisan-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3925","title":{"rendered":"Why We Shouldn&#039;t Long For Bipartisan Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/unity.php\">Matthew Yglesias<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bipartisan competition will tend to be rarer when the parties are ideologically coherent. And that&#8217;s what we have right now &#8212; almost every Democrat in congress is more liberal than almost every Republican. That makes bipartisan cooperation difficult. The roots of this polarization, however, are structural and not really lamentable. The old era of bipartisan cooperation was grounded in the parties having substantial ideological overlap and that, in turn, was a consequence of Jim Crow and the existence of a weird one-party state in the apartheid South where the one party was the Democrats even though the region was generally more conservative in ideological terms. That era&#8217;s not going to come back and we shouldn&#8217;t want it to come back, even if we deem certain aspects of its passing to be lamentable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias: Bipartisan competition will tend to be rarer when the parties are ideologically coherent. And that&#8217;s what we have right now &#8212; almost every Democrat in congress is more liberal than almost every Republican. That makes bipartisan cooperation difficult. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3925\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}