The Rise of Polarization in American Politics

[JakeStarkey]

This was all predicted back in the late 60s. What you hear from the Democrats today matches the same lunatic crap the Leftist counter-culture of the time spouted. Some of those people and/or their supporters are now running the country. There can be no compromise with them.

Find a book titled "The Movement Toward A New America", by Mitchell Goodman (compiler), published in 1970.

Billy, all the screaming now by the lost far right is the same as the screaming of the lost far right fifty years ago. The difference is you are all going to die out, and the millennials will forget you ever existed.

 

[Skylar]

YAWN

all I see is a bunch of left-wing nutjobs spewing hate in the name of tolerance. there is no rise in "self-identified liberals", they just come out of the woodwork. the rise of the Tea party and other groups is a direct response to liberal/progressive overreach. it's also the reason Dems lost the House and the Senate

Fair enough. But just because you refuse to see the extreme political polarization among republicans doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Per the DW Nominate scale, generally regarded as the gold standard of political polarization, the most extreme democrat is Barbara Lee from California with a -0.710. The only democrat above. -0.700. With 7 more democrats above -0.600 for a total of 8.

HOUSE SORT11 Rank Ordering

-1.0 is perfectly liberal. 1.0 is perfectly conservative.

Republicans in comparison have 3 in the house above 0.97, almost off the scale. They have 16 above 0.80. 37 above 0.70. And 76 above 0.60.

So above 0.70 (-0.70) Democrats have 1. Republicans have 37.

Above 0.60 (-0.60) Democrats have 8. Republicans have 76.

Political polarization is almost ludicrously skewed toward republicans. And you insist its only democrats?

Damn.

 

[Pogo]

YAWN

all I see is a bunch of left-wing nutjobs spewing hate in the name of tolerance. there is no rise in "self-identified liberals", they just come out of the woodwork. the rise of the Tea party and other groups is a direct response to liberal/progressive overreach. it's also the reason Dems lost the House and the Senate

Fair enough. But just because you refuse to see the extreme political polarization among republicans doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Per the DW Nominate scale, generally regarded as the gold standard of political polarization, the most extreme democrat is Barbara Lee from California with a -0.710. The only democrat above. -0.700. With 7 more democrats above -0.600 for a total of 8.

HOUSE SORT11 Rank Ordering

-1.0 is perfectly liberal. 1.0 is perfectly conservative.

Republicans in comparison have 3 in the house above 0.97, almost off the scale. They have 16 above 0.80. 37 above 0.70. And 76 above 0.60.

So above 0.70 (-0.70) Democrats have 1. Republicans have 37.

Above 0.60 (-0.60) Democrats have 8. Republicans have 76.

Political polarization is almost ludicrously skewed toward republicans. And you insist its only democrats?

Damn.

Fascinating. Would like to learn more about this here scale, but the results reflect what we'd expect in a right-leaning country dominated by a duopoly of a far-right and a center-right party.

 

[ScienceRocks]

There's many issues that we all should agree on. We should agree on investing in our infrastructure, science, and education. If we can't do so then we need to break up into two or three nations.

 

[Skylar]

There's many issues that we all should agree on. We should agree on investing infrastructure, science, and education. If we can't do so then we need to break up into two or three nations.

I agree with all of that. If there was an 'infrastructure, science and education' party, I'd join.

Not so much the breaking up into different countries, part. We're far stronger together than we are apart.

 

[eagle7_31]

This was all predicted back in the late 60s. What you hear from the Democrats today matches the same lunatic crap the Leftist counter-culture of the time spouted. Some of those people and/or their supporters are now running the country. There can be no compromise with them.

Find a book titled "The Movement Toward A New America", by Mitchell Goodman (compiler), published in 1970.

Billy, all the screaming now by the lost far right is the same as the screaming of the lost far right fifty years ago. The difference is you are all going to die out, and the millennials will forget you ever existed.

And the country will turn into Greece and they can fight over the table scraps.

 

[ScienceRocks]

This was all predicted back in the late 60s. What you hear from the Democrats today matches the same lunatic crap the Leftist counter-culture of the time spouted. Some of those people and/or their supporters are now running the country. There can be no compromise with them.

Find a book titled "The Movement Toward A New America", by Mitchell Goodman (compiler), published in 1970.

Billy, all the screaming now by the lost far right is the same as the screaming of the lost far right fifty years ago. The difference is you are all going to die out, and the millennials will forget you ever existed.

And the country will turn into Greece and they can fight over the table scraps.

The country will turn into zimbabwe if we don't maintain our infrastructure, science and educational system. The problem with Greece is they make nothing and they spent their money idiotically.

 

[Nyvin]

The polarization has been going on from the beginning of the country, but there are times when its particularly troublesome. Two times have been as bad as today.

Adams and his party of control freaks, the forerunners of today's Democrats....appropriately called Federalists....got control...passed the Sedition Acts and were putting people in jail for criticizing the Adams Administration. It was Political Correctness run amuk...as today

That's why Jefferson ran against him...beat his ass, and veered the country back to individual freedom and initiative...The Era of Good Feelings followed and the Federalist Party died out.

Then there was the drift to War that occurred in the 1850's in which 600,000 died.

Don't know which will happen this time....The Socialist Obama has just over 500 days left to derange the Constitution and the American way of life. How much more damage can he do?

Fortunately, there is a strong field of up and coming Jeffersonians....Carson, Fiorina, Rubio...to name just three that can beat Bill Clinton's bogus wife.

^if you ever need an example hyper-partisanship...

 

[francoHFW]

OP- Unfortunately this article is just a glorified ad for the CNN program. This hyper partisanship started with the end of the Fairness Doctrine, a-holes like Rush, and Newt's liberal is evil talking points, never cross another GOPer, etc etc. Downey was only barely political. He was hilarious lol.

 

[eagle7_31]

OP- Unfortunately this article is just a glorified ad for the CNN program. This hyper partisanship started with the end of the Fairness Doctrine, a-holes like Rush, and Newt's liberal is evil talking points, never cross another GOPer, etc etc. Downey was only barely political. He was hilarious lol.

Spoken like a true Democrat hack.

 

[francoHFW]

This was all predicted back in the late 60s. What you hear from the Democrats today matches the same lunatic crap the Leftist counter-culture of the time spouted. Some of those people and/or their supporters are now running the country. There can be no compromise with them.

Find a book titled "The Movement Toward A New America", by Mitchell Goodman (compiler), published in 1970.

Billy, all the screaming now by the lost far right is the same as the screaming of the lost far right fifty years ago. The difference is you are all going to die out, and the millennials will forget you ever existed.

And the country will turn into Greece and they can fight over the table scraps.

The country will turn into zimbabwe if we don't maintain our infrastructure, science and educational system. The problem with Greece is they make nothing and they spent their money idiotically.

They listened to GOP bankers, got caught big time in the Booosh World Depression. They definitely had a fragile economy but would have been ok without the Booosh GOP. Like everything else.

 

[francoHFW]

OP- Unfortunately this article is just a glorified ad for the CNN program. This hyper partisanship started with the end of the Fairness Doctrine, a-holes like Rush, and Newt's liberal is evil talking points, never cross another GOPer, etc etc. Downey was only barely political. He was hilarious lol.

Spoken like a true Democrat hack.

Any argument, functional moron? The "no compromise, un-American TP GOP"- TIME.

 

[whitehall]

Does CNN think the political world started in 1987 when shock jock Downey insulted people for a living? Does that guy, what's his name Smearconish really think Downey and freaking Jerry Springer and Sally Jessie were part of the media much less the "polarized media"? They were clowns taking advantage of the decline of civilized behavior on T.V. The media didn't have to be polarized when Cronkite was king and the son of card carrying communists and some hippie reporter brought down the Nixon administration with fake reports from a fake informant. The media didn't have to be polarized because there was no other source of information except the biased slanted view of the liberal media which hated all republicans until Talk Radio and Fox came along. It's ironic that the liberal media now uses a word like "polarized" even though it hasn't changed it's bias since FDR was president and hasn't stopped whining since Fox became the most watched news source in history.

 

[francoHFW]

Does CNN think the political world started in 1987 when shock jock Downey insulted people for a living? Does that guy, what's his name Smearconish really think Downey and freaking Jerry Springer and Sally Jessie were part of the "polarized media"? They were clowns taking advantage of the decline of civilized behavior on T.V. The media didn't have to be polarized when Cronkite was king and the son of card carrying communists and some hippie reporter brought down the Nixon administration with fake reports from a fake informant. The media didn't have to be polarized because there was no other source of information except the biased slanted view of the liberal media which hated all republicans until Talk Radio and Fox came along.

Exactly, brainwashed functional moron hater dupe. lol. And the GOP goes off the Idiot Cliff...

 

[ScienceRocks]

Does CNN think the political world started in 1987 when shock jock Downey insulted people for a living? Does that guy, what's his name Smearconish really think Downey and freaking Jerry Springer and Sally Jessie were part of the "polarized media"? They were clowns taking advantage of the decline of civilized behavior on T.V. The media didn't have to be polarized when Cronkite was king and the son of card carrying communists and some hippie reporter brought down the Nixon administration with fake reports from a fake informant. The media didn't have to be polarized because there was no other source of information except the biased slanted view of the liberal media which hated all republicans until Talk Radio and Fox came along.

Exactly, brainwashed functional moron hater dupe. lol. And the GOP goes off the Idiot Cliff...

The tea party is anti-civilization and doesn't believe in taxes. They're nutz....Flaming ******* nutz...

I wish these assholes didn't have the power to do the damage that they have done.

 

[eagle7_31]

Does CNN think the political world started in 1987 when shock jock Downey insulted people for a living? Does that guy, what's his name Smearconish really think Downey and freaking Jerry Springer and Sally Jessie were part of the "polarized media"? They were clowns taking advantage of the decline of civilized behavior on T.V. The media didn't have to be polarized when Cronkite was king and the son of card carrying communists and some hippie reporter brought down the Nixon administration with fake reports from a fake informant. The media didn't have to be polarized because there was no other source of information except the biased slanted view of the liberal media which hated all republicans until Talk Radio and Fox came along.

Exactly, brainwashed functional moron hater dupe. lol. And the GOP goes off the Idiot Cliff...

The left wing broken record plays on and on and on.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Does CNN think the political world started in 1987 when shock jock Downey insulted people for a living? Does that guy, what's his name Smearconish really think Downey and freaking Jerry Springer and Sally Jessie were part of the "polarized media"? They were clowns taking advantage of the decline of civilized behavior on T.V. The media didn't have to be polarized when Cronkite was king and the son of card carrying communists and some hippie reporter brought down the Nixon administration with fake reports from a fake informant. The media didn't have to be polarized because there was no other source of information except the biased slanted view of the liberal media which hated all republicans until Talk Radio and Fox came along.

Exactly, brainwashed functional moron hater dupe. lol. And the GOP goes off the Idiot Cliff...

The left wing broken record plays on and on and on.

Same could be said about the right wing record constantly whining about how we need to cut, slash and burn.

 

[eagle7_31]

Does CNN think the political world started in 1987 when shock jock Downey insulted people for a living? Does that guy, what's his name Smearconish really think Downey and freaking Jerry Springer and Sally Jessie were part of the "polarized media"? They were clowns taking advantage of the decline of civilized behavior on T.V. The media didn't have to be polarized when Cronkite was king and the son of card carrying communists and some hippie reporter brought down the Nixon administration with fake reports from a fake informant. The media didn't have to be polarized because there was no other source of information except the biased slanted view of the liberal media which hated all republicans until Talk Radio and Fox came along.

Exactly, brainwashed functional moron hater dupe. lol. And the GOP goes off the Idiot Cliff...

The tea party is anti-civilization and doesn't believe in taxes. They're nutz....Flaming ******* nutz...

I wish these assholes didn't have the power to do the damage that they have done.

While I don't hold with everything the Tea party has done, they have not blocked much of anything. BO has gotten about everything he has wanted either by GOP inaction (immigration), the courts and rolling everything under the sun thru Congress from 2009-10.

 

[francoHFW]

Does CNN think the political world started in 1987 when shock jock Downey insulted people for a living? Does that guy, what's his name Smearconish really think Downey and freaking Jerry Springer and Sally Jessie were part of the "polarized media"? They were clowns taking advantage of the decline of civilized behavior on T.V. The media didn't have to be polarized when Cronkite was king and the son of card carrying communists and some hippie reporter brought down the Nixon administration with fake reports from a fake informant. The media didn't have to be polarized because there was no other source of information except the biased slanted view of the liberal media which hated all republicans until Talk Radio and Fox came along.

Exactly, brainwashed functional moron hater dupe. lol. And the GOP goes off the Idiot Cliff...

The tea party is anti-civilization and doesn't believe in taxes. They're nutz....Flaming ******* nutz...

I wish these assholes didn't have the power to do the damage that they have done.

While I don't hold with everything the Tea party has done, they have not blocked much of anything. BO has gotten about everything he has wanted either by GOP inaction (immigration), the courts and rolling everything under the sun thru Congress from 2009-10.

Like raising taxes on the bloated rich and corps, training programs for 3 million tech jobs going begging/infrasture jobs bill, another stimulus, the immigration bill, etc etc. Foxbot WHATEVER MORON. He's gotten next to nothing. duhhhhhh

 

[Windship]

Its because the vast majority of ppl believe what they want with no research being done and coupled with a gross inability to reason.