Zitat des Tages über Polarisation / Polarization:
There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.
At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?
The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.
As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.
Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.
The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.
If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.
Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.
It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience.
While many people overseas envy Korea's development, it is true that society has many problems such as economic polarization and a low birthrate.