America is stuck. We’re tied down by partisan ideology. Our situation is not unlike Gulliver. We’ve become like the giant, fallen asleep and then awakened by mini-people dancing on our collective selves, making outrageous demands. The strings controlling Gulliver are not unlike the strings of tribal partisanship. While the pragmatic majority slumbers, America’s forward path […]
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Americans are being gamed. We are gaming one another. Hyper-partisanship will not stop, cannot be ended unless gaming ends. MBA’s are trained to game. There are win-win games in which participants collaborate to expand payouts available to all players. American politics has become something quite different from a game of win-win, however. Our entrenched tribalism […]
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