Thanks! Makes sense. (To be clear, I wasn’t saying that tight control by a single political faction would be a good thing… only that it would fix the polarization problem.) I think the Civil War era was probably more polarized than today, but that’s not very comforting given what happened then. Ideally we’d be able to point to an era with greater-than-today polarization that didn’t lead to mass bloodshed. I don’t know much about the Jefferson-Adams thing but I’d be surprised if it was as bad as today.
Thanks! Makes sense. (To be clear, I wasn’t saying that tight control by a single political faction would be a good thing… only that it would fix the polarization problem.) I think the Civil War era was probably more polarized than today, but that’s not very comforting given what happened then. Ideally we’d be able to point to an era with greater-than-today polarization that didn’t lead to mass bloodshed. I don’t know much about the Jefferson-Adams thing but I’d be surprised if it was as bad as today.