Quotes About Polarization

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

For many on the Right, America is to be routinely celebrated because it stands for free enterprise and global power; for many on the Left, America merits perpetual suspicion and censure for the self-same reasons.

Michigan has always been a swing state, so we understand that the goal is to have two political parties, debating the issues with empathy and respect.

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

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

Republicans don't want to 'save the world'; they want to save the country from those who would 'save the world.

The two alternatives are always exclusionary, usually in an angry way: things are either totally right or totally wrong, with me or against me, male or female, Democrat or Republican, Christian or pagan, on and on and on. The binary mind provides quick security and false comfort, but never wisdom. It thinks it is smart because it counters your idea with an opposing idea. There is usually not much room for a "reconciling third." I see this in myself almost every day.

This polarization of two clinical states flies in the face of everything that we know about the cauldronous, fluctuating nature of manic-depressive illness; it ignores the question of whether mania is, ultimately, simply an extreme form of depression; and it minimizes the importance of mixed manic-and-depressive states, conditions that are common, extremely important clinically, and lie at the heart of many of the critical theoretical issues underlying this particular disease.

Es cierto. Si algo he aprendido en España es que tenemos que combatir a los comunistas tanto como a los fascistas. Son perversos, los unos y los otros.

Look, most Republicans are decent men who simply have a view of the world that is different from ours. But there is a hard core of fucking nutcases.

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Kennedy then warned of "the siren temptation of those with seemingly swift and easy answers on the far right and the far left." It

Extremists tend to grow more extreme, not less, as problems get closer to solutions

This is a part of the country that created a nationwide ammunition shortage the day after they saw a non-white president won an election. They

Time to pull the plug on the coma of the left, right paradigm

An uncultured mind often gets attracted by the extreme.

Races, socioeconomic groups, and regions differ in their religious service attendance much more than they did a few decades ago. The religious landscape is now more polarized based on identity.

en este puto país ya se sabe que nunca podemos tener un término medio. Aquí, o la revolución o el convento, no hay más cáscaras.

I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.

While many people overseas envy Korea's development, it is true that society has many problems such as economic polarization and a low birthrate.

In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get social polarization. The whole lower middle class sinks.

It bothers me when I look at Israeli society, on the divisiveness in it, and to polarization. I'm not just talking about left-right... but how individuals behave towards each other.

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.