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Re: The USA isn't "Polarized"
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:35 am
by McAvoy
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:51 pm
Polarization is something that happens on both sides. The Democratic Party hasn't moved left, but the Republican party has gone off the deep end.
The Far Right seems to be more reactionary to whatever the Left does. The more acceptance of the so called 'alphabet people' as the Far Right calls it, the more they push back. The more the Left takes on environmental issues the more the Far Right pushes back. And so forth.
The only thing I can think the Left is reacting to with the Far Right is abortion and that is due to what Trump and the Supreme Court has done.
Re: The USA isn't "Polarized"
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:56 pm
by BridgeConsoleMasher
McAvoy wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:35 am
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:51 pm
Polarization is something that happens on both sides. The Democratic Party hasn't moved left, but the Republican party has gone off the deep end.
The Far Right seems to be more reactionary to whatever the Left does. The more acceptance of the so called 'alphabet people' as the Far Right calls it, the more they push back. The more the Left takes on environmental issues the more the Far Right pushes back. And so forth.
The only thing I can think the Left is reacting to with the Far Right is abortion and that is due to what Trump and the Supreme Court has done.
Reactionaryism is reflexive of overall ambivalence towards the left. It ties into the conservative notion of conserving traditional values.
And also though immigration and pro business / protectionist policy tends to be other things that are controversial between sides, if that makes sense to what you're saying.