Quotes About Polarization

McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.

They are embracing the kind of extremism personified in the past, in their different ways, by the likes of Joe McCarthy, Barry Goldwater, Strom

Astoundingly, truth, evidence and reason had become right-wing concepts.

There is no room in this philosophy for a middle ground, or a series of gradations, between the passive and aggressive status. Many

Republicans will criticize whatever President Obama does because that is what they do.

We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.

We all know members of the House and Senate - especially the House - who are just crazy and say things that aren't true, Democrats and Republicans.

I actually think that the Republicans are the party of jobs and the Democrats are the party of mobs.

Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

On some issues, Republicans and Democrats disagree so sharply that compromise is nearly impossible. Republicans are not going to support a cap-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gases, and Democrats won't support a 1,000-mile wall on the border with Mexico.

We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

We now live in a very polarized nation, divided not between Republicans and Democrats but between those who want to defend our liberties and those who want to defend politically correct stupidities.

I don't even think the biggest divide is between Republicans and Democrats. I think it's between institutionalists and reformers.

I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.

Traditional companies have been subject to licensing for many years. Attention utilities should be required to obey limits on data extraction and message amplification practices that drive polarisation, and should be required to protect children. We should ban or limit microtargeting of advertising, recommendations and other behavioural nudges.

The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.

Senators, representatives too often, we hear from our base, don't talk to the other side, don't with work with them.

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.

I'm a firm believer that if you put together a good product that is just good policy, that is embraced by both sides so that it is seen as politically advantageous to the Republicans or Democrats, that even in this very polarized partisan world that you can advance legislation. I have to believe that, or I wouldn't want to get up every morning.

What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.

It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush.

With health care, somebody at some point decided that there was a bright line and that you had to pick sides. Well, I reject that view.

Flanked on both sides, organized forces on the Left and the Right have made every effort to topple Trump, but these efforts have only served to embolden him and broaden his support.