{"id":219,"date":"2004-09-23T13:56:07","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T17:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=219"},"modified":"2013-05-16T19:25:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T23:25:35","slug":"the-divider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/09\/23\/the-divider\/","title":{"rendered":"The Divider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsullivan.com\/main_article.php?artnum=20040720\">The Divider<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The partisanship going on in our government, the struggle between left and right, is now getting so strong, so violent, that I truly believe that it will destroy our American lifestyle (and perhaps our most treasured posession &#8211; our democratic government itself) in the process. This sort of stuff just has to stop.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read and heard a lot of good arguments for doing away with our outmoded 2-party system, and I think this article proves that this is a good idea. The 2-party system is just breaking down, and if we don&#8217;t do something about it, the two parties are going to take each other out &#8211; and we&#8217;re going to end up being casualties.<\/p>\n<p>-Keithius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The partisanship going on in our government, the struggle between left and right, is now getting so strong, so violent, that I truly believe that it will destroy our American lifestyle This sort of stuff just has to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[385],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-3x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26480,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2026\/01\/13\/america-is-a-fascist-state\/","url_meta":{"origin":219,"position":0},"title":"America is a Fascist State","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 13, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"I never thought I would see the day where I would have to say this, but here we are.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Opinion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1078,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/04\/14\/10-steps-to-destroy-democracy\/","url_meta":{"origin":219,"position":1},"title":"10 Steps to Destroy Democracy","author":"Keith Survell","date":"April 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This post by Naomi Wolf is a year old, but it is still relevant. 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