As a nation, we increasingly want our politics the way we want our news, the way we want our Sunday barbeque conversations with neighbors – and the way we want our marriages. We want to marry people who have the same political affiliation.
In the early 1970s, a little over half of American couples shared a political affiliation. Now well above 70% do. Judging from the polarized fare on cable news, the clustering of people in like-minded communities, and the inability of Congress to even speak across the aisle, let alone get things done, we are headed in the wrong direction if we want a civil…
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