{"id":7389,"date":"2024-09-26T08:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T12:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=7389"},"modified":"2024-09-26T08:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T12:07:04","slug":"permission-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/permission-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Permission Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Polarization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our polarized political world, it\u2019s difficult to have a \u201ccivil\u201d discussion about controversial issues.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our current debates about access to abortion are a great example.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Pro-Choice side claims that Pro-Life takes away the right of women to choose what happens to their bodies.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s a \u201cfreedom\u201d argument.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Pro-Life side says that abortion is murder, and kills a human life.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s a &#8220;moral&#8221; argument.&nbsp;&nbsp;And both sides often degenerate into name-calling and horrible imagery.&nbsp;&nbsp;Pro-Choice:&nbsp;&nbsp;Pro-Life wants to enslave women to their moral\/religious view.&nbsp;Pro-Life:&nbsp;&nbsp;Pro-Choice are murderers doing Satan\u2019s work (I heard that just yesterday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the argument gets to that point, there\u2019s no going back.&nbsp;&nbsp;Compromise is either making a \u201cdeal\u201d to take away freedom, or a literal \u201cdeal with the devil\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;The now over-ruled <em>Roe v Wade<\/em> Supreme Court logic was the compromise; now the current <em>Dobbs<\/em> Decision simply takes the intractable argument out of the Courts, and onto state legislatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The list of issues grows:&nbsp;&nbsp;guns, immigration, vaccination, history, racial equity.&nbsp;&nbsp;And one by one, they have stopped being \u201cdebate topics\u201d, available for discussion, and become \u201ca hill to die on\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our current political climate is a mountain range of issues, each peak dramatically defended.&nbsp;&nbsp;There seems to be no valley, no stream, where the two sides can even meet.&nbsp;&nbsp;Any move toward compromise is seen as a betrayal to \u201cthe cause\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Just a Pinch<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPermission structure\u201d is a political term in vogue these days, but&nbsp;&nbsp;it\u2019s been around for a while.&nbsp;&nbsp;In advertising, it was used to persuade folks to do something that they considered \u201cnot appropriate\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;An example:&nbsp;&nbsp;in the late 1970\u2019s, it was clear that cigarettes were unhealthy, and bad for athletic performance.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the tobacco industry had a different product to sell, snuff; and wanted to create a \u201cpermission structure\u201d for 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class=\"wp-block-heading\">Political Cover<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it was the Obama Administration, particularly the \u201cbrain trust\u201d of Dan Pfeiffer and David Axelrod, who used the term \u201cpermission structure\u201d to explain how to frame issues in a way that allowed Republicans in Congress to support it.&nbsp;&nbsp;At the time, Republicans were faced with the Tea Party (the pre-cursor to Trump and the MAGA movement).&nbsp;&nbsp;Any deal with Democrats might mean getting \u201cprimaried\u201d in the next election, with an opponent going to the political \u201cright\u201d and using cooperation as a cudgel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;So the \u201cpermission structure\u201d included a justification that might relieve that risk.&nbsp;&nbsp;It worked, particularly on issues like Government shutdowns.&nbsp;&nbsp;The \u201cdeal\u201d to end the shutdown would include some item that Republicans could take home as a victory in their war to stop Democrats. \u201cSure we let them open the government, but we got THIS!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the best example of creating a \u201cpermission structure\u201d, was in the 2024 Democratic Convention this past August.&nbsp;&nbsp;In what obviously is going to be a very close election, Democrats tried to convince Republicans, particularly Never-Trump Republicans, to support a progressive Black woman from California for President of the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;It sounds like an impossible task.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For America<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are differences between the political parties on economics, taxation, immigration, guns, healthcare, and all of the other \u201cnormal\u201d issues.\u00a0\u00a0So Democrats framed the election in \u201cexistential\u201d terms:\u00a0\u00a0Donald Trump is a threat to the American Democracy.\u00a0\u00a0They invited Republicans to the convention to tell their fellow party members that the question of democracy was more important than all of the other normal arguments.\u00a0\u00a0A former Trump White House Press Secretary, the Mayor of Mesa, a Pence aide, the former Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, and a former US Congressman, all Republicans; spoke to their fellow party members from the Democratic podium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They told fellow Republicans  that voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz wasn\u2019t betraying their party, but standing up for America.&nbsp;&nbsp;And, they have been followed by a whole galaxy of Republican leaders, including Vice President Dick Cheney and Congressman Liz Cheney.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Republicans for Harris are trying to create the \u201cpermission structure\u201d for other Republicans who might vote for Trump; out of habit, loyalty to the Republican Party, or who might decide to sit out the election 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it\u2019s difficult to have a \u201ccivil\u201d discussion about controversial issues.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our current debates about access to abortion are a great example.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Pro-Choice side claims that Pro-Life takes away the right of women to choose what happens to their bodies.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s a \u201cfreedom\u201d argument.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Pro-Life side says that abortion is murder, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/permission-structure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Permission 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