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It helps avoid the knee-jerk reaction of blaming it on the other side. You might think we don't need that stat because we're above it, but sadly we're not.. It
by brink 6y ago
It helps avoid the knee-jerk reaction of blaming it on the other side. You might think we don't need that stat because we're above it, but sadly we're not..
It feels like the US has less moderates every year. I don't have any data to back that up, just how it feels.
- BayAreaEscapee 6y agoYour intuition is correct. This site [1] includes graphs covering political values of Americans from 1994 to 2017, and it's very clear that politics is much more polarized than in the past. [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/interactives/political-polarization-1994-2017/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/interactives/political-...
- the_only_law 6y agoJust scroll to the bottom of this thread to see this in action.
- TomSwirly 6y agoAs an outsider to America, it looks like there's a moderate center-right party, and a batshitinsane far-right crazy party, and logically very few people between them, because either you believe obviously stupid delusional claims, or you don't. Three-quarters of one side believe that the last election was stolen, despite the huge amount of evidence to the contrary. Very many of them believe that the climate emergency is a Chinese hoax, that Obama is a Muslim from Kenya, that his wife is trans. Why would there be any middle ground now, when one side has taken leave of their senses?