Quotes About Polarization

Since Marx wrote, capitalist technology and industry have indeed spread all over the world. As they have done so, moreover, not only have material wealth and the possibilities for freeing mankind definitively from the burden of meaningless, repetitive and mechanical work increased, but so too has the polarization of society between fewer and fewer owners of capital and more and more workers of hand and brain, forced to sell their labour-power to these owners.

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

On all vital measures, measures necessary to protect you, the Democrats in Washington follow a simple philosophy: Just say no.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

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.

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.