Sure, we all know the complete craziness that descends upon us this time of year. And anyone who's been watching cable news also of course knows about the presidential primaries that promise to spoil many a New Year's Eve in snowy states like Iowa and New Hampshire. I'm not even going to talk purely about those. Because of what else I'm seeing, I started thinking this month about writing a little piece called "The Balkanization of American Politics". But that phrase has been so overused as to become mind-numbingly boring and ultimately meaningless. Yet a phenomenon I first heard of while I was training in the tiny, former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia is exactly what's happening right now..... |
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