the polarization on the issue would become more pronounced and the ‘other side’ would accused of additional immorality for not submitting this side’s power play as they clearly ought to. (Did that last addition happen by the way? I have more or less assumed that it would but my curiosity seeks calibration.)
If the polarization has become more pronounced, I haven’t noticed, but I’m not really sure what that would even look like at this point. But, yes, there’s a lot of the predictable “this situation is your fault for refusing to accept the conditions we’ve set for relaxing this situation!” going on.
If the polarization has become more pronounced, I haven’t noticed, but I’m not really sure what that would even look like at this point. But, yes, there’s a lot of the predictable “this situation is your fault for refusing to accept the conditions we’ve set for relaxing this situation!” going on.
I suspect that for this situation to develop as it has, polarization must be very near saturation in the first place.
There’s even we’re not going to let you relax the situation until we get what we want, i.e., the Republican controlled house has been passing bills to fund parts of the government, e.g., national parks, medical research and the Democratic controlled senate is refusing to consider them. Furthermore, the president has been closing things even when it would cost less to keep them open, even going so far as to order privately run parks that lease government land to close.