Why is American politics so heated? (user search)

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Re: Why is American politics so heated?

« on: July 22, 2012, 03:03:20 PM »

Quote from: gunnut on July 22, 2012, 02:33:54 PM

The reason we have heated politics is simply because we are a two-party nation, where the two parties have hardly changed save the Democrat-Republican flip and have been going at it for over two centuries.

What an oversimplification.

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Re: Why is American politics so heated?

« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2012, 11:51:52 AM »

Quote from: WhyteRain on July 23, 2012, 11:27:17 AM

Quote from: Comrade Sibboleth on July 23, 2012, 11:21:42 AM

The issue is more that 'flipped' misses the point. America was a different country then.

There are always two sides to any political system: One supports a strong centralized state while the other supports decentralized power with more local control.

In the 19th century, it was the GOP for the centralized control and the Democrats for local government power. Now it's the opposite.

Again, this is such a laughably simplistic way of looking at politics that it's just...oh nevermind.

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Re: Why is American politics so heated?

« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2012, 06:02:48 PM »

I also think it's the Republican Party that's making American politics heated, and the right-wing Christian movement that is making the Republican Party heated.

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