Re: Democracy in America Re: Villain of the Week

[Joshua Bell]

 "Andrea Leistra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> points out:
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> You're assuming that stances on all issues are perfectly correlated.

Yes, I thought of this too. It's interesting to note that in the current US
political scheme, issues *are* generally correlated - that is, we can take
an issue likely to come up in a political debate and easily bucket it into
"left wing" or "right wing".

(Although there is some absurdity in this as well, hence the old adage of
keeping the democrats out of the boardroom and republicans out of the
bedroom.)

Is this due to current memes in the US population or some emergent property
of multiple issues and the polarization? I'd wager a bit of both. Anyone
have further thoughts on this?

Joshua