Quotes About Polarization

The Republicans have bought into the idea that people hate them because they're opposed to everything.

Republicans are so far out to the right, it's pushing people into the Democratic Party.

TV is set up to be just a shout fest: Is this good for Republicans or bad for Republicans; is this good for Cain or bad for Cain... tell me something that I need to know.

If Trump actually wants to help those who have been left behind, he must go beyond the ideological battles of the past.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

The Democrats want to destroy the country immediately.

The Trudeau government increasingly avoids debate on important national issues by demonizing people who disagree with them.

Republicans have cultivated, into a fine art, the ability to divide people up by race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation. That's what they do. That is the essence of their politics. They get one group to fight another group while their wealthy friends and campaign contributors get richer and laugh all the way to the bank.

Republicans have cultivated, into a fine art, the ability to divide people up by race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation. That's what they do. That is the essence of their politics.

I've sat behind a microphone and listened for decades as Americans learned to stop talking with each other and start shouting instead. No discussions, just 'socialist' or 'fascist' or 'feminazi' or 'bigot' or whatever. So here's what I want to say, and I think it's the one thing no one ever says any more in our public life: I think you're wrong, but you may be right .

If I told you I was a Republican and you were a Democrat, no matter what I said after that, it would be tempered with your opinions.

It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a novel, an interview, a poem or a tweet you can be sued, put on trial, even arrested. Self-censorship is widespread.

Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes.

Voor een organisatie die functioneert volgens de principes 'wie niet ingesloten is, is uitgesloten' en 'wie niet met mij is, is tegen mij' verliest de wereld in haar geheel elke nuance, elke differentiatie en elke pluraliteit.

We talked about how most Americans used to be in the middle, relatively speaking. That's how America kept its balance all those years. The left and the right were close enough to have disagreements but not hate." "Okay." "That world is gone, Gavin, and so it will now be easy to destroy the social order. The middle has become complacent. They are smart, but they are lazy. They see the grays. They get the other side. Extremists, on the other hand, see only black

Extremists are relentless. They don't see right or wrong—they see us and them.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

Americans have become more atomized by education, income, and political leanings. That polarization has meant sharply increased antipathy toward people with different beliefs.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

The fossil fuel industry has made advocating alternative energy sources a liberal/conservative thing, and an ideological battle, when it should really be about a healthier, less toxic world.

Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.

If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth.

You can't argue with someone whose premises are completely different from yours, where there is not even an inch of common ground