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| Topic | Do you think people are more extreme today than a few decades ago? |
| darkknight109 10/26/17 9:39:36 PM #2: | That trend has been observed in the US. Republicans and Democrats had significant overlap in the 90s - about 40% agreed on most or all major issues. Since then, the Democrats have shifted left and the Republicans have shifted right - now there is very little overlap between the parties. What's interesting, though, is that it's not universal, even in the English speaking world. In Canada, there's been an opposite trend - the three major political parties are now closer together than ever. The NDP shed a lot of its hardcore socialist trends under Jack Layton and, while still definitely left wing, is much more centrist now than in the years of Tommy Douglas. By the same token, the Conservatives moved left and appropriated a lot of the Keynesian economics that the Liberals were famous for (and the Liberals themselves cribbed some of the more successful Conservative pet projects, like free trade and an aversion to across-the-board tax increases). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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