There's been a lot said the last two weeks about the tone of political discourse in the US, and examples pointed to of the extremes of political discourse in the past. George Will takes things a bit further in his column today, and makes a good case for this disharmony being something almost uniquely American.
Example from the column:
America is an inherently "disharmonic society" because the ideals of its creed are always imperfectly realized and always endangered. Government is necessary but, Huntington says, "the distinctive aspect of the American Creed is its anti-government character. Opposition to power and suspicion of government as the most dangerous embodiment of power are the central themes of American political thought."
The rest of the column is
here.
