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by manyoso 590 days ago
Money, media, political footballs, lots and lots sure... but to actually solve the problem? Partisanship is an anti-pattern.
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> to actually solve the problem? Partisanship is an anti-pattern

Sure. The point is there are people incentivised to drive partisanship. Because people respond to it. It goes back to Plato’s criticism of Athenian democracy: demagoguery works.