I disagree. Partisan politics is a neutral process until an ideology is applied. The nature of the ideology will make the results either positive or negative.
There was a time when we had more congenial debate and a civilized manner of reaching compromises to settle competing agendas (politics is the art of compromise in many ways). For this to work, we have to have a fundamental set of values upon which society is based. As we have seen the erosion of our founding values and their replacement by the graven images of dependency and victimhood, it is no wonder we have seen the decline of civil politics.
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