Politics between old Machinebrain ideologies
Our politics has become an over-rehersed, over ritualized piece of stage combat between tow old ideologies. The surrender of politics to ideology and the abandonment of pragmatism make it harder by the day for America to adapt.
On the left, too many remain wedded to paradigms first formed during the decades between the Progressive Era and the New Deal. They are top-down, prescriptive, bureaucratic notions bout how to address social challenges. These state-centric approaches made sense in a a centralizing, industrializing America. They make much less sense in the networked economy and polity of today.

On the right, we hear ideas even more historically irrelevant: laissez-faire economics and a "don't tread on me" idea of citizenship that might have been tolerable in 1775 when the country had 3 million largely agrarian inhabitants, only only some of whom could vote, but is at best naive and at worst destructive in a diverse, interdependent, largely urban nation of over 300 million.
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