Why are federal politics in the US so polarized?

Question

Does the existence of only two major political parties - the Democrats and the Republicans - in the US encourage "all or nothing" polarization among the general populace, e.g. over 50% of Amercians catagorize themselves as big "C" Christians? Most western countries today have a number of parties that have national prominence and this seems to encourage open dialogue. The current situation in US federal politics seems to run far in the opposite direction: secrecy, deception and polarization seem to be the bell weathers of Amercian society today. What happened to the idealism of the national anthem: "Land of the free, and the home of the brave."?

Answer 1

thinking difficult :- (

shopping easy! : )

Answer 2

Hi..

GREAT QUESTION!!

Essentially this polarization reflects the times in which we live..

For one the polarisation is largely between the lower class and upper/wanna-be middle class majority..

The media is largely to blame..

Like most countries now.. there are two key groups.. the workers who own nothing.. and the rich/wanna-be rich.. who own the rest..

Of all the wealth owned by the wealthy/middle class.. the top 5% own approximately 70% of all the assets! so essentially most of the middle class are bankrupt and living in hope only.. but their lifestyles are filled with materil items which make them feel they are going to be rich one day.. it drives them.. a key difference between the ignroant middle class and the poor.. is exactly this.. the poor often DO NOT WANT wealth and material items.. they're happy with a simple and stress free life.. which is becoming increasingly difficult with traffic snarls, pollution, tollways, dodgy foods, supermarket monopoly's and steroid meat for the poor..

Of the wealthy class.. only the "wanna be rich actually work" and most of those have jobs that will one day cease ot exist plunging them into poverty too.. they dont know this however till its too late.. so it is important that Sex in the City brings out lots of sequels.. keep this ignorant middle class aloft with hope..

the majority are "wanna-be rich" who will sadly never actually get there.. and die with mortgages on overpriced property which could have been hand built cheaper!! but as long as the diet of well received lies continues.. the middle class will be oblivious to it all..

The poor.. often know this and are happy to stay poor.. and are then demonised as such.. yet the poor are actually more educated than the "wanna-be middle class" which is the majority or the population and which is sadly drunk on years of Hollywoof/Fox and other related media garbage.. including offic`e politics..it has polluted these people to the point they no longer know what normal life is.. what it was like only 40 years ago.. before TV before everyone had a phone and motor car and computer and microwave and so forth..

So it has now gotten to the point of almost total polarisation, because the wealthy class have gotten as wealthy as they're going to get.. the middle class who do work hard.. but are ignorant and a large part of all the problems.. can't repay their expensive mortgages.. and the solution ot further growth now.. is more war, and more control.. more security.. more survelance and people are getting sick of living this way.. then blaming it all on imigrants and terrorists.. what a joke!!

THe poor have already lost access to health care, access to old age care, homeless have nothing, veterans get little.. hospitals are now a global joke.. the poor are simply dropping off..

Enron for the record was robbed and bankrupted BY YOUR OWN ULTRA RICH!! not immigrants and terrorists.. and Enron cost US tax payers 10 times what the Iraq war will cost..

YET.. the people of Enron ilk.. are STILL in control.. STILL being trusted.. STILL calling all the shots.. and every year there is another enron.. as long as Hollywood keeps bringing out more mind obsessing smut.. all is forgotten..

Therin lays a large part of the polarization.. not to mention that the wealthy class also do 90% of the polluting.. and now the world is slowly loosing it's fish, forests, water supply, icebergs.. YET the wealthy class has been telling us for years that there is no global warming.. to them it's all good.. as long as they can water their rose gardens..

Answer 3

Personally I think it is a distraction technique which allows the two big parties to continue to do whatever the backroom boys "special interest groups and lobbyists among them" to do whatever they want. They realize no matter what the do half the countyr will support them and spend time yelling at the other side for not supporting them instead of the days when everyone questioned the government when they did not play fair.

Answer 4

Actually they are not. The majority are all in the middle a few activist are extreme Red & Blue.

A true Centrist 3rd party would controll the Gov. To protect America from totalaterianism we only have 2 major political partys.

Go big Red Go

Answer 5

It's an adversarial system, that's the way it supposed to work. If the Dems and GOP got all friendly with each other, that's when freedom would be in real danger.