While I certainly remember some of the uglier political moments of the 1990s, the unreflective, hyper-partisan mentality currently gripping our country makes the '90s look downright harmonious.
Tone Down The Partisan Rhetoric, The "Us" vs. "Them" Mentality.
Tone down the partisan rhetoric, the "us" vs. "them" mentality.
In this hyper-partisan age, there is typically a circle-the-wagons mentality when a politician says something as controversial as Rick Perry did when he called the actions of the chairman of the Federal Reserve "almost treasonous".
And over the long haul, any hint of a bunker mentality from the White House is good for no one....Sending out a taxpayer-paid partisan to attack a network, and by extension, its viewers, is not presidential.
"In the Russian mentality, there must always be an enemy," said Mykola Posivnych, a Ukrainian historian and expert on Ukrainian partisans.
In his unsuccessful sentence appeal, lawyer Howard Krongold said that Sona was motivated by "partisan fervour and emotion, not greed," saying that he "lost his moral bearings during a campaign that developed a 'siege mentality".
Partisan warfare dominates Congress.
