Quotes About Polarization

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

This case is as simple as black and white

Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

The fake news, the divisiveness, the labeling of every side. It's wrong, and it's not America.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

A mark of stupidity is a belief that one party is totally virtuous and correct on the issues while the other is evil and always wrong.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

The Right is incredibly deft at getting earnest about all the wrong things.

Our citizens never hesitate to take sides against one another, whether it's Democrats versus Republicans, Coke drinkers opposed to Pepsi enthusiasts or Yankee loyalists against Red Sox aficionados.

People grow up loving the Yankees and will tell you, and so many people despise the Yankees, and they come from all over the United States.

I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.

This Right vs Left fault line has been drawn through all of our nations. In India too, your political choice has come to define all of you. And if you fail the ideological purity test of one or the other side, you are immediately branded a traitor.

Facebook does not favor hatred. But hatred favors Facebook

America has turned into an angry nation with two warring factions that ceaselessly demand that we join in their fight,

Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.

It really is a shame that the truth is perceived as an extreme position.

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

We believed it was a Good vs Evil situation: that the WBC was right and everybody else was wrong, so there was no questioning. It was a very public war we were waging against the 'sinners.'

I think people have made their minds up about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. They love them and hate them - love them or hate them.

Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment. Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport.

As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking.

Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment.

Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport. As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking.