Quotes About Polarization

What the journalist Alex Massie wrote in The Spectator offers a warning beyond Britain: If you spend days, weeks, months, years telling people that they are under threat, that their country has been stolen from them, that they have been betrayed and sold down the river . . . that their problem is they're not sufficiently mad as hell, then at some point, in some place something or someone is going to snap.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

If you disagreed with him politically, he usually implied that you were a pervert or a foreign agent of some kind. Many of his listeners loved to hear the other callers debased. They were the sort of listeners who spent a lot of time in front of their TVs watching professional wrestling.

Polarization (is) a tendency for groups to form judgments that are more extreme than individuals' personal opinions.

When Trump was elected, there were three parties in Washington: the Trump party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided our country.

With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.

The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?

I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

What strikes me when I leave Washington is the extent to which there's a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country. The rest of the country is not hyper partisan.

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.

I've caught myself watching MSNBC more and more, simply amazed at the nightly hate-fest against millions of Americans who don't see the world through the granny glasses of Keith Olbermann or any of the other radical liberals who host shows there.

I really started getting more politically involved after the 2016 election, watching how partisan and how angry our political conversations became.

We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.

We have two political parties in this country; we cannot have one of them be abandoned to complete nutcases. We've got to have two good political parties.

There are conservatives who say, 'Why would you show the country in a weak way?' And there are liberals who say I'm exploitative.

Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is.

Believe me, I bash liberals for being mean-spirited and angry, but there are plenty on my side who are the same way.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?