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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I don't think politics in Washington are any more polarized than they've ever been. Hamilton and Jefferson. Adams and Jefferson (who had been friends and would be again). Lincoln and anybody. It's no worse now than it ever was. We just read about it more, and thanks to television and the internet people get involved more.
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That may be true, but has Congress been this deadlocked due to partisanship? Has there been an endemic refusal to compromise as part of a faction's platform like this in history? As everything is all relative, how does this compare to the political climates of history that people who are alive today will remember? If you read the OP's article, it lays out very good reasons why today's climate is different than those past.
Not trying to go after you, but asking serious questions that I'm curious about.