10-20-2018, 06:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-20-2018, 07:05 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
CNN reports on there being an "Exhausted Majority" that is as sick of the extremes as I am.
Now if that could be the center of a regeneracy, I could get enthusiastic. We will see if any politicians push it, or whether the extremists remain dominant. The conclusion is too late for the mid terms, but not for 2020.
My worry is that More in Common found what they hoped that they would find in their poll. You can manipulate a poll result by wording the question in a biased way.
My concern is also that this has become an extremist web site, that the Industrial Age crises were centered on violence and partisanship, and the S&H perspective has got carried away as extremist as a result.
CNN Wrote:Cable news depicts a divided country, with talking heads fighting from the left and right on deeply polarizing political issues. But according to a new study, the United States might not be as split as the media portrays.
More in Common, an initiative dedicated to understanding political polarization, recently released the results of their project called "The Hidden Tribes of America." They found that 67% of the country is what the organization calls the "Exhausted Majority," a group that is displeased by America's polarization and would like for people to find a common ground.
"There's a tremendous anxiety about the division and a sense with the majority of people that their voice isn't being heard," Tim Dixon, co-founder of More in Common, told Brian Stelter in the latest Reliable Sources podcast. "That it's these strident, hateful, often uncompromising us versus them voices" that are receiving attention.
Dixon cited the Brett Kavanaugh hearings as an example of the majority's distress. Their research found that 70% of people said they blame both the left and the right for the conflict over his nomination.
Now if that could be the center of a regeneracy, I could get enthusiastic. We will see if any politicians push it, or whether the extremists remain dominant. The conclusion is too late for the mid terms, but not for 2020.
My worry is that More in Common found what they hoped that they would find in their poll. You can manipulate a poll result by wording the question in a biased way.
My concern is also that this has become an extremist web site, that the Industrial Age crises were centered on violence and partisanship, and the S&H perspective has got carried away as extremist as a result.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.