Quotes About Polarization

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them — the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status.

Hate numbs the judgment, paralyzes the vitals of democracy.

A society where divisiveness leads to crassness that seems to feel it's justified by political bent. Is that really who we want to be? Is that what our nation was built on?

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

many of these left wing idiots tried to fight Kellen and his Nazi followers using logic and rational arguments. Are you kidding me? That shit never works. What the country needed was someone who would make fun of them for the idiotic, small dick, insecure, evil fucks that they were.

The polarized outer cells are destined to become trophoblast, whereas those cells located in the interior are destined to become the inner cell mass, from

Even the weekend chat shows seem to be designed for maximum noise and minimum analysis. They get the lefty and the righty on screen, throw the raw meat of the latest controversy in front of them, and watch them rip at each other. It's not a dialogue in the sense of an exchange of ideas intended to arrive at the truth. It's more of a talking points cage match.

Everybody tries to take a tragedy and turn it to their own political purposes, and it's both sides.

A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship.

There's nothing Trump can do that won't be forgiven.

Everything that is wrong with this country today, the people who are opposed to Donald Trump are responsible for!

Donald Trump is anathema to America.

Politics now is fractured. The rising tide of nationalism and populism threatens to consume our politics. Whether it is Trump or Putin abroad, or Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage at home, our political order is increasingly dominated by forces that seek to divide us.

I am not a fan of President Trump, I should say. I wouldn't try to comment on every particular issue in which we disagree, but there are plenty of them.

If you're not for Trump, then you're not for me.

In the era of Donald Trump the echoes of Westboro are undeniable: the division of the world into Us and Them; the vilification of compromise; the knee-jerk expulsion of insiders who violate group orthodoxy; and the demonization of outsiders and the inability to substantively engage with their ideas, because we simply cannot step outside of our own.

Trump granted pardons because of Fox... He raged against migrant 'caravans' because of Fox. He accused public servants of treason because of Fox. And he got the facts wrong again and again because of mistakes and misreporting by the network.