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Re:‘Tipping point’ makes partisan polarization irreversible ... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:04PM (#29503600)
Slavery took a civil war with 500,000 dead to end the polarization. Yeah, it ended, and that's good, but... is there a way where we can end that kind of polarization without 500,000 dead?
Re:‘Tipping point’ makes partisan polarization irreversible ... by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:10PM (#29503661)
Dissolve the constitution and call for a new constitutional convention?
Re:‘Tipping point’ makes partisan polarization irreversible ... by jaywalk on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:38PM (#29503996)
Sure. The civil war that would inevitably result from that almost certainly wouldn't result in 500,000 dead due to modern medicine. All of the people who died in the first civil war from things that we consider simple to treat now (like infections) would survive.

But I have a feeling that's not what you meant.

Re:‘Tipping point’ makes partisan polarization irreversible ... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:30PM (#29503900)
Maybe. Maybe. Or maybe that triggers the civil war.

Look, it's possible. It could even be what we need. But for it to work, we'd need wisdom and honest compromise, not sound-bite driven trench-warfare politics. Under current conditions, I see a low probability that it would work.

Re:‘Tipping point’ makes partisan polarization irreversible ... by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:57PM (#29504225)
Re:‘Tipping point’ makes partisan polarization irreversible ... by sagarm on Friday December 10, 2021 @03:09AM (#29507594)
In a country where a sizable minority feel that simply wearing masks during a pandemic is an unconscionable infringement of personal liberty?
Re:‘Tipping point’ makes partisan polarization irreversible ... by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Friday December 10, 2021 @09:11AM (#29510027)
That same country still has a mandatory selective service for the military.
Re:‘Tipping point’ makes partisan polarization irreversible ... by AnimalMuppet on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:17PM (#29512512)
No it doesn't. It has a purely voluntary military. (People still have to register for selective service, but there hasn't been a draft in decades.)