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Stanford professor: moderates remain, but neither party serves them

Posted at May 14, 2018

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Posted by Hank

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(Repost from 14May18) There is an interesting interpretation of the perceived growing polarization in America, by Stanford political scientist Morris Fiorina. I won’t go into the details of his thesis; you can read the article if you like, it’s quick. His piece is dated 2014 but the assertion continues to be made by other commentators […]

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“A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding fathers. … when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder [how] we could have unlearned it.”

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