| Explain US politics to us foreigners. Left,Right,Center ... Oct 22nd 2012, 20:15 Left and Right is maybe very obvious to most. But Centrism I had to look up using Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical...%28politics%29 Quote:
As a relatively grassroots movement, especially in the United States,
there is no definitive statement of radical middle politics.
A primary recurring theme, however, might be the idea of
"sustainably improving choices." As is often the case with centrism,
it can be said that the radical middle or center is an ideology broadly
analogous with the ideas, principles and values of progressivism.
| Another wiki entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrism and then what makes it almost impssible to be a Centrist? http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...arry-democrats Quote:
First of all, the parties are clearly much more polarized than before. So partisans on both sides simply feel more negatively about one another than they did in, say, 1970.
But why are we so polarized--and more important for our purposes here, why would this polarization extend to non-political issues, like whether your darling daughter marries a Democrat?
...
As political scientists Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler have shown, this has led to the parties being increasingly split over something called psychological authoritarianism. Republicans are increasingly authoritarian—craving certainty, inclined to view the world in black and white terms, you're either with me or you're against me—and Democrats are increasingly the opposite.
And of course this filters into everything, because if you're authoritarian…well, one thing you are not very likely to be is open to new experiences. In other words, you're likely to score relatively lower on the personality trait of Openness, one of the Big Five traits. And we know that one key factor about Openness is that, well, Open people tend to date and marry other Open people, and vice versa. As the personality psychologists Robert McCrae and Sutin put it:
Whether single, dating, or married, people have a good idea of what they want in their ideal partner—someone just like themselves, particularly on Openness. When contemplating the ideal mate, single individuals prefer partners who strongly resemble them on Openness, with Agreeableness and Extraversion coming in a distant second and third, respectively…
| I guess it is illegal to quote more read at the site. To me here in Sweden i realize that we most likely will have this situation within some decades or so. We usually mirror US but delayed :) So share your view on this polarization. Is it really a good thing? |  |
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