Ok alliegence aside (I hate them both to be honest). I was wondering why in America we have made our society SO polarized that to even hint you think one way or another means you are a left wing or right winger?
In a country where most people you talk to say they are kinda in the middle political wise then why have both the major parties been taken over and run by the extremists of their side?
2006-11-07 23:51:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Because the extremeists are the ones who get all fired up over political issues. The rest of us have a life.
2006-11-08 00:02:04 · answer #1 · answered by Overt Operative 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The centrists lost when Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980. Since then, ideology rules the political parties. George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton tried to bring it to a more moderate stance in their respective parties, but the true believers in both parties are too strong.
What it will take is for voters to stop electing presidents and Congressional members who are extremist. Don't vote for single-issue candidates, or candidates who demonize the other political party. Look for candidates who are moderate and who want to compromise to solve the nation's problems, instead of just scoring political points with their "base."
Resist those extremists who say that moderates are wimpy and that they just can't decide. On this forum, I posed a question about moderates, and that is what one poster told me. He's obviously an extremist!
2006-11-08 00:00:00 · answer #2 · answered by Shelley 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because neither party wants to admit they may be wrong. They Republicans are afraid to admit their policy concerning domestic spending may be wrong. The Democrats surly don't want to admit their foreign policy of cut & run when things are not going well policy may be wrong . So we wind up with the same old same old. Well now the Democrats have a chance for the next 2 years to show the world what they can do. They had better produce change for the good or the Reoublicans take it all back in 08.
2006-11-08 00:06:06 · answer #3 · answered by BUTCH 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people are so entrenched in their thinking that the only way to get something done is to offer an extreme view, they have managed to take command.
This alos means that all either party does is fight over party issues and not work on what is best for the country
2006-11-07 23:55:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suspect what you see in politics represents the voters who put them there. I wish the public discussion would be more reasonable, but when a significant part of the population may believe the 9-11 attack was influenced in some devious way by our own government, I have little hope of anything improving any time soon.
2006-11-07 23:58:30 · answer #5 · answered by Slug 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Politics is a guerrilla society. If you like separation of power how to separate legislative and pentagon branches? I do believe that this will be the punch line. Pelosi has an axe in the game not a stake. She will walk a harsh point.
2006-11-08 00:37:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The two extreme polar ends in US politics is much closer to each other than in other countries. So they have to accentuate the differences to not look like each other.
Plus the real reason the two parties are polarized is so we look at the "glaring" differences and not at the fact that BOTH parties are acting in concert to use our tax dollars to pay back their political backers.
2006-11-07 23:58:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
they have the most money. we have the best politics money can buy. that is our fault. we let it happen. they distract us with this constant argument as they line up to the national feed trough full of your tax dollars. when we wake up, perhaps then we might put this to a stop, but we would have to put down the remote first.
2006-11-07 23:56:08 · answer #8 · answered by michaelsan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋