![]() ![]() ![]() Each has its own political party, its own cable-news sermonizers its own digital oracles, scandal-mongers, and data miners its own billionaire donors and advocacy groups its own economists and corps of scientific experts. Our country, it seems, is fast becoming two separate nations. A generation ago, it would have been unthinkable for one of the most far-reaching pieces of legislation in modern history, the Affordable Care Act, to be voted into law without a single Republican “aye” in either the House or the Senate or for a Supreme Court justice, Antonin Scalia, to say that he no longer reads either The New York Times or The Washington Post, because both are incurably biased or for the presidential nominee of one of the two major parties to get zero percent of the vote in some 150 precincts in New York and Philadelphia, as Mitt Romney did in 2012. Political life in America has been so intensely polarized for so long that we now accept the condition as permanent, even as the costs steadily mount. ASSOCIATED PRESS (PHOTOS) JACKIE LAY (ILLUSTRATION) ![]()
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