Opposite of what Obama is trying to sell as a recipe, as Paul Rosenberg explains eloquently and logically, with data and graphs.
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It is a possibility, we are watching, but not yet. The election itself may precipitate it, but they have to lose first.
This is also something I wrote a long time ago along the same lines.
Rosenberg's article was interesting, but it never explained what any of the "polarization" measures shown in the graphs are, methodologically.