12.14.06
The Argument Culture: Fourth Post (Politics)
Tannen makes many good points about politics. The partisanship that we focus on today is particularly bad in that it makes the business of actually governing the country particularly difficult (and it only seems to have gotten worse since she wrote the book). She makes some interesting suggestions, like that perhaps eliminating primaries would lead to more party unity (which actually makes a lot of sense). In general this was an interesting, although slightly depressing, chapter. Things have gotten worse rather than better since she wrote this.