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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts
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To: Lou Weed who wrote (35935)9/5/2021 1:53:57 PM
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The person who broke the US politics was Newt Gingrich. Aside from being (on a personal level) one of the most despicable people that I've known, he had a lasting negative effect on the US. The process was made worse by successive GOP admins. This is not a partisan opinion. It is a fact admitted to by numerous GOP operatives. Rove explicitly made polarization a centerpiece of GOP strategy in pursuit of his permanent majority. Trump took Rove's doctrine a step further and perfected it.

There is no reason to believe this trend will stop at the next admin, and everyone should be very concerned about it.

Polls in the '70s showed about 1 in 5 people objecting to their children marrying someone from the other party. Today that number is close to 4 in 5! Think about that. An American now does not care that their in-law is a doctor or a successful businessman or a charity worker, if they are from the opposite party, they will reject him/her.

Here is a chart that I put out a few years ago. It is dated but still very revealing. I strongly suspect that the problem has gotten much worse since the end of this chart.

What you are seeing is how often a bill managed to get bipartisan support and how often members of one party reached out to the other side. In the beginning, the Congress looks like a fully functioning brain considering the issues from both sides. Starting with Newt Gingrich, the US began its brain damage down the dementia and schizophrenia. (Or alternatively, a cold civil war that might turn out to be a hot one in a not to distant future, as Jan 6 events showed).

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