U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by Symmetry on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:51PM (#23783658)

Our system of government really, really wasn't designed to handle politically polarized parties. We've had partisanship forever but mostly it was about competing for patronage rather than ideology. Then after the Progressive reforms of the turn of the 20th century we had a long period where each party had their liberal and their conservative wings that meant low polarization.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by ameister14 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @04:50PM (#23785037)

>Our system of government really, really wasn't designed to handle politically polarized parties. We've had partisanship forever but mostly it was about competing for patronage rather than ideology.

The first hundred years of the US tend to disagree with that statement

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by Symmetry on Thursday July 09, 2020 @08:43PM (#23786946)

Really? What issues of principle would have the Democratic Republicans or the Federalists not been willing to abandon for the sake of the pork barrel, at least after Andrew Jackson? I will grant that the Republicans and Democrats initially had substantial ideological differences they weren't willing to compromise on but that immediately resulted in a civil war and then we were back to the normal state of affairs.

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