Date: August 20th, 2018 2:28 PM
Author: carmine dashing state
Reminder whenever libs try to tell you that conservatives are the ones getting more "extreme," not libs.
http://www.people-press.org/interactives/political-polarization-1994-2017/
https://www.facebook.com/UnbiasedAmerica/videos/277274813100925/
PEW: DEMS ARE 60% MORE LIBERAL THAN THEY WERE IN 1994; REPUBLICANS ARE 8% MORE CONSERVATIVE
by Kevin Ryan
A common criticism from both parties has been that the other has become radicalized. Listen to just about any campaign speech and you’ll hear the time-tested demagoguery about how the opposition party is no longer moderate, but instead espouses views from the extreme. So I decided to see whether that’s actually the case.
The Pew Research Center does a poll asking Americans about their beliefs on a variety of issues. When plotted on a graph and then animated to show how ideologies have shifted over time, an eye-opening picture emerges. Since 1994, Republicans are only about 8% more conservative in their beliefs. Democrats, meanwhile, are fully 60% more liberal, with the median Democrat now closer to the far left than the center.
It wasn’t always this way. In 1994, the median Democrat was a centrist, holding views that were 50% traditionally liberal, and 50% traditionally conservative. The median Republican was only about 10% more conservative than the median Democrat.
Since that time, Republicans shifted left, and were the centrist party in 2004, before drifting back to the right. Today they are just slightly more conservative than in 1994.
Democrats, meanwhile, continue to move left, with the biggest surge coming between 2011 and 2017.
Today the two parties are more polarized than at any time in at least a generation. The rise of the internet echo chamber has allowed each side to hear only what it wants to hear, without dissenting views to challenge their beliefs. It’s a trend that doesn’t look to let up any time soon.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4056230&forum_id=2#36649265)