I had friends who played the Godfather like that. Well before the streaming era somehow. Their kids would start wailing a few seconds before the horse head scene. I’m not making this up
Thomas M. Keck
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![Across Western democracies, the average social attitudes of voters in political parties across the spectrum have been changing along with the framework of expanding political rights.25 Far-right parties all over the world are working to undo that progress, and in places where they succeed, partisan animosity increases.26 To restore a functioning and pluralistic democracy in the United States, reversing over a decade of democratic backsliding in the world’s oldest democracy, the thing to “fix” is not polarization. Polarization is the country’s immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing [End Page 111] for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success, reputation, and democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this minority faction to have greater control.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jbt7p7oxhcre2b4vizfyideq/bafkreiajr4q4w3azuo2bi47jugx4pqcglotzu3jngzuforeh5wmlsui3n4)
