re: #285 thedopefishlives

It’s interesting to note that the swing is so large among Republicans, thus indicating that they seem to be far more partisan, in general. Things got so much better once their man was in the White House, whereas Democrats did not see such a significant drop.

But, you know, “Both Sides…”

It’s way easier to speak of polarization as ‘both sides abandoning the middle in a race to the extremes’, and sure, you can find evidence of that in things like Congressional votes, etc. But really, what happened was that conservative Democrats were replaced by Republicans, and moderate Republicans were replaced by conservative Republicans, and conservative Republicans were replaced by fascists.

Meanwhile, liberal Democrats have not been replaced by Socialists. The situation, despite lazy pundits’ wishes, is not symmetrical.