jimnyc
11-12-2019, 10:58 AM
First off, neither side is fully innocent and both sides, politicians and supporters, are guilty of the craziness and hatred going around in the past few years.
Trump is no happy prize spreading cheer and love daily. But IMO, it's the Dems that generally start with things, the lack of tolerance, the name calling, both of Trump and all his supporters. Over and over and over we have heard all kinds of terms to label those of us that support Trump. Racist, Xenophobic, Deplorables... I don't need to list the endless stuff again I hope.
A lot of stuff is in response to such things. And then the dominoes start going down. And that makes both somewhat guilty at that point.
I have no seen republicans overall move far to the right. Not even in the same realm as how far the democrats have moved left.
The media is negative and anti-Trump over 90% of the time. The Dems even stated they would obstruct. The whole entitlement and fixing primary for the anointed one. Russia. And everything else involved. And this one and more blame it all on the right? Takes 2 to tango, but one can be a LOT more responsible for bringing forth that negativity, while others are responsive to that negativity.
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CNN: Country is Divided Because Republicans Moved To the Far Right
If you thought a party that embraces socialism, has a religious devotion to environmentalism, believes in open borders and celebrates abortions to the point of birth was pretty radical, why, you’re just imagining things, according to CNN. CNN’s John Avlon explained to his audience on Tuesday’s New Day, that it isn’t Democrats who have become too extreme, it’s Republicans.
During his “reality check” segment, the CNN political analyst took on the topic of America’s polarization in a special series he’s calling, “The Fractured States of America.” After going into a brief history lesson, he pointed out the majority of the country was united in the 1940s, '50s, and early ‘60s in big issues such as the wars we were involved in. Avlon praised government’s ability to “get things done” in those days, despite there being more “ideological diversity” in the two parties than there is today. What changed? Apparently Republicans did, with the rise of the Tea Party:
There's less and less political incentive to vote across party lines while partisan media demonized even modest political differences. Take a look at this Tea Party class, that led the backlash of President Obama, the center totally hollowed out. We also have asymmetric polarization. Republicans have moved further right than Democrats moved left, and that tea party congress was determined to be the most polarized ever going all the way back to reconstruction. Things have only gotten more polarized under President Trump, the second Republican in 16 years to win the White House despite losing the popular vote, something that didn't happen once in the 20th century.
He goes on to tie America’s distrust of the media and the deep state, as a result of this shift to the far right, while throwing in some griping about the right not wanting to compromise on guns, and not believing in “science” ie: climate change:
We’ve seen increasingly bitter personal divides, accompanied by a decline in trust in the government, the media and each other. We see our polarized congress unable to summon the will to address common problems, rooted in science like the climate crisis while ignoring obvious bipartisan compromises on immigration or infrastructure -- failing to take action even when super majorities support things like expanding background checks with rising gun violence. Now we see a country facing its third impeachment inquiry since this period of polarization began after only one other in our whole history before.
Rest - https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2019/11/12/cnn-dont-blame-left-polarization-republicans-moved-too-far-right
Trump is no happy prize spreading cheer and love daily. But IMO, it's the Dems that generally start with things, the lack of tolerance, the name calling, both of Trump and all his supporters. Over and over and over we have heard all kinds of terms to label those of us that support Trump. Racist, Xenophobic, Deplorables... I don't need to list the endless stuff again I hope.
A lot of stuff is in response to such things. And then the dominoes start going down. And that makes both somewhat guilty at that point.
I have no seen republicans overall move far to the right. Not even in the same realm as how far the democrats have moved left.
The media is negative and anti-Trump over 90% of the time. The Dems even stated they would obstruct. The whole entitlement and fixing primary for the anointed one. Russia. And everything else involved. And this one and more blame it all on the right? Takes 2 to tango, but one can be a LOT more responsible for bringing forth that negativity, while others are responsive to that negativity.
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CNN: Country is Divided Because Republicans Moved To the Far Right
If you thought a party that embraces socialism, has a religious devotion to environmentalism, believes in open borders and celebrates abortions to the point of birth was pretty radical, why, you’re just imagining things, according to CNN. CNN’s John Avlon explained to his audience on Tuesday’s New Day, that it isn’t Democrats who have become too extreme, it’s Republicans.
During his “reality check” segment, the CNN political analyst took on the topic of America’s polarization in a special series he’s calling, “The Fractured States of America.” After going into a brief history lesson, he pointed out the majority of the country was united in the 1940s, '50s, and early ‘60s in big issues such as the wars we were involved in. Avlon praised government’s ability to “get things done” in those days, despite there being more “ideological diversity” in the two parties than there is today. What changed? Apparently Republicans did, with the rise of the Tea Party:
There's less and less political incentive to vote across party lines while partisan media demonized even modest political differences. Take a look at this Tea Party class, that led the backlash of President Obama, the center totally hollowed out. We also have asymmetric polarization. Republicans have moved further right than Democrats moved left, and that tea party congress was determined to be the most polarized ever going all the way back to reconstruction. Things have only gotten more polarized under President Trump, the second Republican in 16 years to win the White House despite losing the popular vote, something that didn't happen once in the 20th century.
He goes on to tie America’s distrust of the media and the deep state, as a result of this shift to the far right, while throwing in some griping about the right not wanting to compromise on guns, and not believing in “science” ie: climate change:
We’ve seen increasingly bitter personal divides, accompanied by a decline in trust in the government, the media and each other. We see our polarized congress unable to summon the will to address common problems, rooted in science like the climate crisis while ignoring obvious bipartisan compromises on immigration or infrastructure -- failing to take action even when super majorities support things like expanding background checks with rising gun violence. Now we see a country facing its third impeachment inquiry since this period of polarization began after only one other in our whole history before.
Rest - https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2019/11/12/cnn-dont-blame-left-polarization-republicans-moved-too-far-right