Barton (2001)
I would go further than the author Barton (2001) in regards to discussing American centrism in American schools by emphasizing just how essential self-mythologizing is to American political culture in selling the legitimacy of party platforms that often evade intellectual debate about policy in the public domain and resort to an almost sports spectacle like attitude where voters become cheerleaders for a side rather than objective and insightful observers and responsible voters who make their decisions on a person by person, situational rubric rather than one in which an R or a D by the candidate's name is the sole determinating factor in their elect-ability. Since Newt Gingrich brought the "no-compromise" attitude to DC and the GOP with his Contract with America in the mid 1990's and his contentious attitude with the opposite party, even in bi-partisan committees, the pace of partisan militancy and the lack of room for moderates (who were discredited during the debat...
