Here’s a theory for why our politics are so confusing these days: Neither party wants to be a majority party. From an ideological perspective, majority parties are, by nature, weird. Over the several decades that followed, most major policy questions were hashed out within the Democratic Party. Samuel Lubell, a Polish-born political analyst, famously described this dynamic as the “sun and moon” system of political parties. No party took the lead.” The outcome, he wrote, is “both parties have become minority parties simultaneously.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 17, 2019 17:15 UTC