Quotes About Polarization

All isms end in fascism.

If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

It wasn't too difficult to see that [Ian] Paisley would never do anything positive.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Given the ambiguities of the neutral zone, it is easy for people to become polarized: some want to rush forward and others want to go back to the old ways.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

Through social "contagion," groups magnify aggressive tendencies, much as they polarize other tendencies. Examples are youth gangs, soccer fans, rapacious soldiers, urban rioters, and what Scandinavians call "mobbing"— schoolchildren in groups repeatedly harassing or attacking an insecure, weak schoolmate (Lagerspetz & others, 1982). Mobbing is a group activity.

If, say, she suspects someone in the family or the kibbutz of adopting a right-wing position or if they dare to say a kind word about the settlers or, God forbid, begin to find just a little bit of religion—then she'll unleash an ungodly terror, fire and brimstone.

In the decade I had been away something in the fabric of the country had dissolved. America wasn't one country anymore—it was two, or a dozen, or a thousand. The extremes of wealth and color and caste felt more like Cairo or Johannesburg than any American city I remembered.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.

The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.

if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

The details of what [Barack] Obama was going to do to the American health care system didn't matter. All that mattered was whether or not Obama was going to get it.

Liberals in blue states just think that they are on the right side of history, and anybody that disagrees with them has to be a troglodyte or a neanderthal.

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

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 republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans