Opinion by Paul Waldman: Beware politicians and organizations telling you “common sense” will solve our problems.
That’s clearly intentional: Once you start taking positions, people might disagree with you, which these groups are keen to avoid.
To those who don’t have firm partisan loyalties, it makes sense that politics looks like a bunch of bickering. “Partisanship is, for a lot of people, mostly symbolic and not always practical. So it feels right to say we should cut through that and get to the solutions,” said Georgetown political scientist Hans Noel. But if you actually try to do that"in a good faith way,” Noel argued, you quickly come to places where people have very different goals and values.
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