Posted on 06/24/2019 11:27:19 PM PDT by ransomnote
A new study shows Americans have little understanding of their political adversaries—and education doesn’t help.
Americans often lament the rise of “extreme partisanship,” but this is a poor description of political reality: Far from increasing, Americans’ attachment to their political parties has considerably weakened over the past years. Liberals no longer strongly identify with the Democratic Party and conservatives no longer strongly identify with the Republican Party.
What is corroding American politics is, specifically, negative partisanship: Although most liberals feel conflicted about the Democratic Party, they really hate the Republican Party. And even though most conservatives feel conflicted about the Republican Party, they really hate the Democratic Party.
America’s political divisions are driven by hatred of an out-group rather than love of the in-group. The question is: Why?
A new study, called “The Perception Gap,” helps provide an answer. More in Common, an advocacy organization devoted to countering extremism that previously published a viral report on America’s “hidden tribes,” set out to understand how political partisans see each other. Researchers asked Democrats to guess how Republicans would answer a range of political questions—and vice versa. (The survey was conducted among a sample of 2,100 U.S. adults the week immediately following the 2018 midterm elections.) What they found is fascinating: Americans’ mental image of the “other side” is a caricature.
According to the Democratic caricature, most Republicans stridently oppose immigration, hold deeply prejudiced views about religious minorities, and are blind to the existence of racism or sexism. Asked to guess what share of Republicans believe that immigration can strengthen America so long as it is “properly controlled,” for example, Democrats estimated about half; actually, nearly nine in 10 agreed with this sentiment.
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The American understand liberals perfectly, and vice=versa.
The liberals want to destroy America’s republic and the Americans want to save it.
Republicans do understand democrats the problem is democrats do not understand anything about America only power and greed.
Conservatives live in the cultural world liberals have created - their ideas are in every movie, newspaper, magazine, and comic strip. We know how they see the world AND we know how they ‘THINK’ we see our world. (Which is a distortion of how we feel.)
This piece is pure liberal BS... And by the way I subscribe to the Atlantic... the writer of this does NOT subscript to any of our conservative mainstream stuff...
You’re right. This is total crap.
We understand them plenty.
They are depraved degenerates, idiots and quasi-communists.
We are not.
There’s all the difference that needs to be considered.
The problem is that both political parties are wrongly ignoring fed's limited powers so that they can rob low-information citizens by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, lawless Democrats doing so to a much greater extent imo.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.” —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Insights welcome.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG!
If you depend on beating them at the polls, and you do not bring the fight to the schools, universities, social media, etc., etc., then we are lost. Their ideas must be countered at every opportunity.
Too bad... Dims’ eyes and ears aren’t connected to their brains.
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