[dragonwriter]

> Much less have the only viable candidates belong to one of two viable political parties, both of which have cartoonishly stable views over time.

There are lots of things you can say about the major American political parties, but that they have stable political views over time is not even close to one of them. (This is, in fact, a direct consequence of duopoly, since coalition building occurs within big-tent parties rather than between parties as it does in multiparty democracies.)

[nautilius]

Certainly changing at glacial speeds compared to other developed countries. Wherever else do you see people debating whether we still need statues of long lost fights, whether access to books should be strongly controlled, whether abortion is a woman’s right, etc.

Edit: health care, of course, health care.