Quotes About Polarization

War, a struggle between "our people" and "the enemy," creates a polarized world in which "the enemy" is easily objectified and removed from the community of human obligation.

You might like either the Republicans or the Democrats more than I do, but still something is wrong in today's politics, even if we don't always agree

The Rightists called themselves America Firsters, and their opponents called them Fascists; the Leftists called themselves Liberals, and their opponents called them Reds.

The fact was, these issues had become so urgent and feelings ran so high that tolerance was too difficult. All over France the various groups isolated themselves, and didn't go where they would meet their political rivals.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

This election is tearing the country apart as it is.

There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.

Some things are always simple. Magnets, for example.

Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.

No novo mundo, portanto, a política é centrífuga. Não se trata mais de unir eleitores em torno do denominador comum, mas, ao contrário, de inflamar as paixões do maior número possível de grupelhos para, em seguida, adicioná-los – mesmo à revelia deles. As

Partisan politicians] seek to incite political support or raise money by pitting us against each other on issues . . . because they know that by igniting heated arguments, the issues are less likely to be solved and their careers are more likely to be secure. Every time you vote "against" someone rather than "for" someone the two-party system wins and America loses.

The infighting and the purposeful division promoted by our political parties is a simple ploy to keep us from uniting.

The less gender-polarized the culture, the lower the degree of violence and the greater the degree of democracy.

The more polarized the gender roles, the more violent the society. The less polarized the gender roles, the more peaceful the society.

when the moderates were driven out, the radicals moved in

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

That's the underlying tactic of the Obama administration in 2012: push the war on women, the war on the middle class, the war on gay people, and the war on Hispanics, and hope it will carry the day.

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

What we ended up with, from Bill Clinton onward, is a status quo party and an 'undo the system' party, where the Democrats became the status quo party and the Republicans became the 'undo the system' party.

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.

The politics of hope is harder to spread than the politics of hate.

For most Democrats, politics is sports to them because they have no stakes because they don't pay tax.

Left-wingers and right-wingers come together when they become extreme enough. The Nazi Party was called National Socialism, very similar to Stalin's Communism, with the addition of 'the Fatherland.'