[FRIAM] civil war(s)

[Prof David West]

schisms might be a better metaphor than civil war.

you are correct that there is, and always has been, "churn" among factions within both parties and any significance given to a particular instance of that churn e.g GOPS taking committee assignments away from a flake or the Nevada state party instance — originate in the mind of the one pointing at the event rather than intrinsic to the event itself. One reason that I find most political headlines to be examples of wishful thinking rather than communicators of significance.

davew


On Tue, Mar 9, 2021, at 12:54 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> And, before we label those who do resign as having done so in some sort 
> of triggered state, it's useful to fuzzify or smear "commitment" to 
> some role. E.g.
> 
> https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/09/ofcom-investigating-gmb-piers-morgan-comments-harry-meghan-sussexes
> 
> Did they storm off in a huff because their commitment to that cause was 
> really pretty thin to begin with? Or was this a significant thing for 
> them to do? Resigning your position on the Titanic wouldn't be that 
> difficult a decision to make.
> 
> So, calling such disagreements "civil war" seems hyperbolic, a simple 
> symptom of artificial partisanship. I think of the noise in the Rs and 
> Ds as minor shifts along the steady churn. Anyone who takes themselves, 
> or their own biases, that seriously needs to take a beat and think a 
> little harder.
> 
> On 3/9/21 11:36 AM, Tom Johnson wrote:
> > One might ask, how many people are the "entire staff"?
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:29 PM Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm <mailto:profwest at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
> > 
> >     This is not a polemic nor a rant, just an observation.
> > 
> >     Lot's of headlines about rupture and conflict in Republican party: Trumpists versus everone else. But almost a many stories, not headlined, about similar in Democratic party, e.g. 'entire staff of Nevada's Democratic party resigned because Sanders/AOC aligned slate won elective positions like Chairperson."
> > 
> >     These might be more grounded instances of "civil war" (metaphor) than the one supposedly exemplified by the storming of the Capitol.
> 
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