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As the decade of the 1990s has demonstrated, the limitations of our political and governing system are a constant source of frustration; but consensus politics, as propounded by Bill Clinton, is not the answer. The basic fallacy underlying the strategy of consensus is the theory that Americans, as Lyndon Johnson once put it and as Bill Clinton seems to believe, 'share a fundamental unity of interest and belief.' The trouble is that on only a very few public issues do Americans have common interests and beliefs.Shogan argues that consensus politics probably isn't a very good strategy and that political parties should instead slug it out over ideas, with the spoils going to the victor. He also suggests that--given the constraints of the Constitution, not to mention the rigors and expenses of mounting a political campaign these days--American political discourse probably isn't going to get much better any time soon. --Linda Killian
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