Re: Bush: one of the worst disasters to hit the U.S.

John Larkin wrote:

The US electorate is almost evenly split. That makes sense in a system
like ours, where minority parties have zip influence, unlike a
parliamentary system.

So the parties servo their positions such that the split is almost
even. And the result is that there's not a huge substantive difference
in people or policies. Sure, one side gets the tort lawyers, and the
other gets the gun owners, but that stuff balances out.

So we have a bell-shaped curve, and right down the middle there's a
dotted line drawn, and we label the sides "Democrat" (the left side,
naturally) and "Republican". Most of the mass is in the middle, near
the line, and for most of that mass the choice to be in one party or
the other is a relatively close one. It's a fact that most people in
the USA are *not* rabidly partisan, but they're the quiet ones.


Don't you get a sense perhaps that the populace has become polarised - and that those to the right have moved further right and those to the left further left ?

Certainly, it seems that people are taking harder positions.
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