Quotes About Polarization

to herself, "I'm living in crazy land." All election season, the media bombarded Lisa's roommate with messages that Trump supporters were "monsters, literal genocidal maniacs who weren't human anymore" and they deserved cruelty.

We have two parties here, and only two. One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party. ... I'm very proud to be a member of the stupid party. ... Occasionally, the two parties get together to do something that's both evil and stupid. That's called bipartisanship.

The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other

Thus was conceived a phenomenon that would split America from right to left and raise ominous questions—of a type we still face—about whether a democratic citizenry can be talked into betraying its own values.

It is a curious fact that each of these extreme opposites resembles the other. Each believes that we have only two choices: appeasement or war, suicide or surrender, humiliation or holocaust, to be either Red or dead. [Address at the University of Washington in Seattle, November 16 1961]

People will always make sides," Garp said, "—of everything.

the problem of the unthinkability of anything outside and beyond the legacies of sexual polarization that limit perception, and above all the invisibility of this problem.

Easy issues are at the heart of what sociologist James Davison Hunter (119911) forecast as the emerging polarization of American politics. In Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, which is often cited as the impetus for Pat Buchanan's fiery speech at the 1199z Republican National Convention and the dawn of polarized politics, he suggests that the emergence of new social issues, such as abortion, the death penalty, and gay rights, make polarization inevitable.

Britain was evidently divided,

but up in the northwest, have been talking to a hard-right

increasing blasé acceptance of the USA as a nation under siege from within, manning the barricades with the growing legions of hired cops, gypsy cops, rent-a-cops, uniformed thugs insulating the rich from the poor?

One hundred thirty years after Abe Lincoln, re Republicans have got the anti-black vote and it's bigger than any Democratic Presidential candidate can cope with.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

A culture focused on individual freedom can only result in narcissism, polarization, conflict, estrangement, and loneliness. What is the meaning of life when it's all about me?

Nazism (national Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.

Demonise one of them and the sympathisers will melt away.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.