This 60-second animation by Business Insider shows how increasingly divided Congress has become since 1949. It illustrates how the Bipartisan working relationships among members of Congress have continually declined, to the point where they now virtually have disappeared entirely! This means Congress has become more and more dysfunctional.
Video animation by Businesss Insider, based on a 1915 study, published in the scientific journal PLoS ONE.
As summarized in bullet points by Business Insider:
- “Bipartisanship isn’t as common in US politics as it once used to be.
- Partisanship can make it difficult for Congress to pass legislation and Some experts have asserted that partisanship in Washington has reached historic levels.
- In 2015, researchers studied House partisanship from 1949 to 2011. They wrote about their findings in a paper published in PLoS ONE and visualized the divide between Democrats and Republicans. “
