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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExcessive partisanship warps brains.
It disables critical thinking. It blinds those afflicted by it.
Happy Independence (from THAT) Day.
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)not the other way around. But you would never know that by reading much of DU.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)People have concerns they want addressed, and are mocked and ridiculed for trying to bring up certain subjects.
treestar
(82,383 posts)parties exist to make political alliances - each and every person cannot have their way, so people band together to get an approximation of what they want by nominating candidates who win. Anyone can be part of that. One can't stand aside from the party while it "serves" you. If you stay out, you won't affect that party much.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)The Democratic party has few or no members and some other party has more members than the Democratic Party has.
pampango
(24,692 posts)MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)carolinayellowdog
(3,247 posts)That's what 1776 was about, but now the empire is international capitalism
Romulus Quirinus
(524 posts)Partisanship enables group membership. Being in the in-group activates our reward circuit. One of the properties of group dynamics is how we tighten ties to our group by "othering" outsiders, thus making group membership more valuable.
And on and on it goes.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)senseandsensibility
(17,060 posts)I really like it and think it's appropriate for what we're experiencing now.
Progressive dog
(6,904 posts)who groomed Madison and Monroe to follow him. Even he found out that he needed allies to actually accomplish stuff.
Lisa D
(1,532 posts)Excessive love, hate, food, drugs, alcohol, television, napping, DU posting. The list can go on forever.
Rex
(65,616 posts)It is the reason why some here always have to blow smoke up our asses 24/7. Their own denial is more important then everyone else's reality.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"Excessive partisanship warps brains. It disables critical thinking. It blinds those afflicted by it. "
You're attributing that to "excessive partisanship"?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=152034&sub=trans
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023135750#post24
cali
(114,904 posts)"do you think I'm talking about you?
...maybe you're projecting?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023169023#post23
kentuck
(111,101 posts)These times are reminiscent of the partisanship during the Nixon years.
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)DURec
pampango
(24,692 posts)Granted that republicans may occasionally be "right" (though always for the wrong reason), a certain amount of partisanship is good for the brain.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)Because Republicans have such fantastical ideas. So, they adopted them and called it triangulation.
I call it a disgrace.
pampango
(24,692 posts)I not sure that is where the OP is going with the warning about "excessive partisanship" but triangulation is sure one way of dealing with it.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Per their self-identified membership they are, by definition, partisans.
However, the strongest allegiance to groupthink here is among the Purity Patrol. There is virtually no divergence of opinion. Those who've not signed on to the Perfect Progressive Platform are the least "partisan" - presuming that you mean committed to rigid principles.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)I criticized, therefore I am right! No questioning of the validity of criticism is allowed.
Everyone elected freely is corrupt, not to be believed.
We have no solutions for this. We may find an occasional hero who will do what we want in lockstep, never a person in office or who could get the office of President (the one through which we get all we want).
NOVA_Dem
(620 posts)I'm talking about posters who totally flip flop on an issue just b/c our guy is doing it? We can go into the DU archives and verify that they held a totally contradictory opinion as recently as the last administration?
struggle4progress
(118,291 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)"... imagining facts to support an analysis" is the epitome of the republican tactic of choosing a policy they want and "imagining facts to support analysis" that supports that policy choice.
Thanks for the post, struggle4progress. Bookmarked.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
longship
(40,416 posts)I have a huge problem with ideologies which calcify in the mind and allow no rational arguments or disagreements.
The Republican Party is just such an animal. Extremist and religious ideology has taken over a major political party in the USA and this is the result.
A gay legislator in PA is shut up because God declares it.
The multiple bills in state legislatures harming women's health care.
Attempts to impede minorities from voting.
And. And. And. And. And.
The religious right owns the Republican Party infrastructure. Their agenda is now the Republican agenda because to disagree with it is to disagree with GOD! That's much of the reason why no compromise, and all the filibusters and all the party line votes.
Christopher Hitchens said, religion poisons everything. And certainly it is poisoning this nation's politics.
Wake up sheeple!!