Everything seems so polarizing. I mean, I didn’t vote for the guy but it seems like the extremes are growing radically. If we can’t come to the middle, we will tear apart the social fabric.
Classic texts on crowd psychology and mass movements: 1. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements - Eric Hoffer, 2. The Crowd: A Study of the Pooular Mind - Gustave Le Bon, 3. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles MacKay.
Partisan polarization is not the fault of the body politic. Look at the media, which gets ratings and clicks from sensationalist reporting on scandals and horse-race coverage that all but elides the actual policy issues. Look at the parties - Republicans explicitly campaign on a platform of mistrust in government, while mainstream Dems have retreated into naked corporatism while uselessly intoning "at least we're not those other guys." McConnell made the unprecedented strategic remark that his primary goal under Obama was to make him a one-term President. Republican politics since then have been characterized by petulant obstructionism (e.g. blocking Obama's SC nom.) Dems have proven themselves inept at hardball and out of touch with their base, drawing closer to Sierra Club-like interest groups and corporate backers while losing elections all the while. Ultimately we have a political system hamstrung by elite forces that benefit from keeping us alienated, angry, and afraid. So to answer your question: no, there is no middle ground. Not anymore.
+1 👆 this guy gets it
Didnt understand half of it, but I like your sentiment.
Them protesting him is not polarization.
Op is furthering his Mother Russia narrative. Follow his posts and you can see what his agenda is. Some other poster pointed out that too. He is here trying to engage some disillusioned techies to turn into right wingers. He tries to sound like exasperated centrist. That is far from the truth.
Riiiggghhttt. Everyone is a Russian bot, Nazi, white supremacist, or leftist label du jour.
How can you come to the middle when the other side wants you dead?
Which side is that?
The pro-birth people shifting policies to remove abortion clinics. A complication in pregnancy that’s not aborted can result in death, for both mother and child. Many genetic conditions, like Harlequin-type ichthyosis, results in not only in the infant death, but an extremely painful death. How can that be humane? Genetic conditions can be detected early and aborted, avoiding unneeded suffering.