Quotes About Polarization

The one-third of America that identifies as "conservative" will be isolated even more profoundly within an information ghetto of deception and incitement.

about the possibilities of the Republicans and Democrats

Discussion and debate have been replaced with yelling and demonizing.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

All -isms end up in schisms.

Ideological muddle-headedness, political

Division is always regression.

There are only two types of people in this world; people who hate clowns, and clowns.

I think where Trump just has it dead wrong is this is a world of us versus them.

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

The Berlin Wall comes down in '89, so then there's basically a vacuum of who was the enemy and then Fox News comes along in '95 and it becomes Democrat versus Republican. Now people on the right are fed a steady diet of anti Democratic party propaganda so they believe Democrats are the enemy and they will not believe anything.

We can't have Trump supporters only trust what comes out of conservative news media and vice versa.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president.

It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)

I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.

What reeducation had taught me was that dedicated communists were like dedicated capitalists, incapable of nuance.

No significant American group hates like the left does. If you differ with them — from global warming, to race relations, to same-sex marriage, to the extent of rape on college campuses — they will humiliate, defame, libel and try to economically crush you.

When those of dissimilar views interact, conformity pressures are argued to encourage those holding minority viewpoints to adopt the prevailing attitude. When those of like mind come together, the feared outcome is polarization: that is, people within homogeneous networks may be reinforced so that they hold the same viewpoints, only more strongly.

splitting the crowd like vinegar dropped on mayonnaise.

The Internet was supposed to bring people together, but it's created big divisions.

They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.