Quotes About Polarization

Together, Apple and Walmart represent the intense separation of American life into blue and red, rich and poor, overpriced and undersold, hyperconnected and left behind.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.

Deep in my heart, I care about social-justice warriors.

There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

elections held during the winter of 1945-46 accelerated polarization across India around the INC and the League

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.

I don't know what Trump has to do to lose his supporters. It's like a religion. He's a school bully.

What's interesting is that you've got a lot of overlap between supporters of different parties and different candidates who feel regardless of who's been in power, the rich have got richer and half the country's got poorer.

The left has become increasingly dogmatic on immigration. Any position short of supporting open borders is described as racist. That's nonsensical.

Well, I don't think any of the Republicans have expressed any interest in supporting the vision of Robert Kennedy at all. At least I haven't seen that.

The thorniest business problems will surface at the board meetings, and the different, sharp opinions help to better explore the poles of the arguments to make better decisions.

In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another.

Imbalanced systems,whether internal or external, will tend to polarize.

In the original fertilized egg, for instance, certain chemicals congregate at one end of the cell, others at the other end. When such a polarized cell divides, the two daughter cells receive different chemical allocations. This means that different genes will be read in the two daughter cells, and a kind of self-reinforcing divergence gets going.

People here talk about firearms and hunting in the same way that urban liberals go on about nutrition and exercise.

An election year in the U.S., as if you needed to be reminded, the vituperative tunes of the Ayn Rand Marching Band bleating from the airwaves.

It's really easy to persuade people to be hateful

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps