Polarization

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What are your views on phenomenon of political polarisation?

(•) Other: Sometimes good, sometimes bad, mostly neutral.

It all depends on the circumstances and on which side of the discussion a person may be.

People need to get back to other interests.

I was similarly annoyed when sociology terms started leaking into the mainstream. People are now always saying incorrect, ignorant things about concepts that regular people should not have even heard of. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard the term “cognitive dissonance” incorrectly used. Or generational cohorts. We won’t even go into people pretending to know what Marxism is. It’s like people saying they are “Fordists” or “G.H. Meadists”.

Political polarization is inevitable.

The methods used to emphasize that polarization are sometimes bad.

A strong nation will withstand those who don’t necessarily agree with every aspect of its government. A strong nation encourages a free exchange of ideas.

Trump’s inability to listen to all but his own input is a flagrant weakness which is jeopardizing our prestige around the world. It’s making the US seem weak.

I believe it's going to hit a peak point and then people are going to start killing each other over dissenting political beliefs. Sociopolitical genocide.

I believe it will hit a peak point...then everyone will get tired of the BS.

Neutral.

Just like species evolve, so do societies. Problems arise when societies split, but remain bonded under a single governmental system. Both sides then think they have a right to the whole thing and that the other side must be removed.

The American BLM discussion - and, closer to me, Polish LGBT discussion - make me really depressed. It's like everyone have watched too many superhero movies and started to believe the other side is a villain who has to be destroyed.
In my opinion, LGBTQ and conservatist Catholics are perfectly capable of living in - well, not a harmony but a civil disagreement. That's the way it was just a few years ago - but now our <censored> ruling party started to encourage these "LGBT-free zones" - imagine you're gay living in such a zone, how would you feel? No wonder the other side gets more and more angry - so the call against them gains momentum :/

Yeah, I put more responsibility on whoever is in power, in both conflicts. Leaders are in charge of keeping the societes peaceful, feeding hate for the sake of gaining votes is one of possible illnesses of democracy. A very serious illness.

To me, polarization seems to mean that everyone is at one end or the other on an issue and the huge mass of (in the case of my country) American good sense in the middle no longer is strong enough to buffer the extremes. If I may use a chemical analogy.

I could be really wrong here, but my sense of when this all started in the US was with the rise of the Tea Party. The Tea Party decided that their candidates would be "no compromise" candidates. They made negotiating and compromise dirty. Not saying there wasn't/isn't any dirt in politics, but the 100% certified whatever you are certainly seems to rule the day in these times. No tolerance for thoughtful discourse or consideration.