"Let’s remember that in U.S. history, political 'consensus' was usually based on a cross-partisan agreement to leave a discriminatory social order intact and deny marginalized groups equal representation and civil rights. In many ways, 'polarization' is the price U.S. society has had to pay for real progress towards multiracial pluralism."
brutally accurate, @tzimmer_history
https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/05/30/the-unraveling-of-the-united-states-of-america/
@nerdybutcute @tzimmer_history
Definitely. If you consider consensus and polarization as opposite peaks on the same sine wave, then all that remains to identify is the peroid those descriptions represent. We cycle though both, often taking more than a generation to see the change.
@nerdybutcute @tzimmer_history . Aka "kicking the can down the road". All the Forefathers did it with slavery. Now, it’s fascism we’re trying to pretend is not there.