Quotes About Polarization

Politics for liberals is: Our mass against their mass. Except conservatives don't have a mass; liberals do. (But enough about Michael Moore.) This

Throw in "never read books" and you have the dictionary definition of a liberal. Being completely uninformed is precisely how most liberals stay liberal. According

Oh, if only that was the last time in America that the extreme left and extreme right broke down and made a mess of things, leaving everyone in the center to suffer.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

So over violent, or over civil,That every man with him was God or Devil.

Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

El sistema está roto», o «el gobierno está demasiado polarizado como para someterlo a una reforma severa». Sí, hay muchas cosas que los gobiernos deben hacer, pero no podemos delegar nuestra compasión a nuestro gobierno y sentarnos a un lado quejándonos del hecho de que no hace lo suficiente. Desde

Our polarization, and the increasing reality that we simply don't know each other, makes it too easy to settle for dislike and contempt.

The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded Americans Is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop and Robert G. Cushing,

the more that people confine themselves to likeminded company, the more extreme their views become.

In politics, I claim that progressives, conservatives, and libertarians are like tribes speaking different languages. The language that resonates with one tribe does not connect with the others. As a result, political discussions do not lead to agreement. Instead, most political commentary serves to increase polarization. The points that people make do not open the minds of people on the other side. They serve to close the minds of the people on one's own side.

We don't have an anger problem in American politics. We have a contempt problem. . . . If you listen to how people talk to each other in political life today, you notice it is with pure contempt. When somebody around you treats you with contempt, you never quite forget it. So if we want to solve the problem of polarization today, we have to solve the contempt problem.

We don't have an anger problem in American politics. We have a contempt problem. . . . If you listen to how people talk to each other in political life today, you notice it is with pure contempt. When somebody around you treats you with contempt, you never quite forget it. So if we want to solve the problem of polarization today, we have to solve the contempt problem.

There is evidence that as we become less exposed to opposing viewpoints, we become less logically competent as people.

Knowing our weakness, dividing leaders on both the left and right seek power and fame by setting American against American, brother against brother, compatriot against compatriot. These leaders assert that we must choose sides, then argue that the other side is wicked—not worthy of any consideration—rather than challenging them to listen to others with kindness and respect. They foster a culture of contempt.

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

Polarisation on religious lines for political gains shall not be on the BJP's agenda.