In politics, polarization (or polarisation) refers to the divergence of political attitudes to ideological extremes. Think of it as views and attitudes going to the opposite polar extremes without no middle ground.I don’t understand polarization to mean violence. Maybe there is something lost in translation here. — NOS4A2
Political parties move toward the poles and people increasingly distrust members of the other political party, it has become difficult for politicians to agree on a way forward. Congress is more likely to gridlock and find it difficult to pass legislation, while campaigns and partisan media can become more divisive.
In politics, polarization (or polarisation) refers to the divergence of political attitudes to ideological extremes. Think of it as views and attitudes going to the opposite polar extremes without no middle ground.
So what's the problem?
So NOS4A2, you think that political views becoming more extreme, more apart, will help the representative democracy to function better?
What the hell are you implying? You think that it's better that something like slavery is abolished ONLY AFTER A VICIOUS BLOODY CIVIL WAR?But whether there is violence or not, we are so much the better for polarization in the cases of slavery, civil rights, because one side lost that argument. — NOS4A2
Wrong. It's not.No, ssu, I’m saying polarization is a natural feature of democracy, and can address injustices. — NOS4A2
What the hell are you implying? You think that it's better that something like slavery is abolished ONLY AFTER A VICIOUS BLOODY CIVIL WAR?
I think it's far better when reforms can be done WITHOUT violence, without people getting killed, without extremist delusional and vitriolic opposite views taking over political discourse... and oh wait, that has been possible in many countries.
Wrong. It's not.
What connects them is that they don't want any competition besides them. They can share the system very well.I hold that the Democrat party in 2020 and since the 1960s has been increasingly and is now essentially different from the Republican party and that in substantive ways the two are not connected at all.
What I'm interested in is the argument that shows me wrong. — tim wood
If you are a Republican or Democrat, the two major parties in Arizona, you only need to collect about 6,000 valid signatures to appear on the ballot. Dare to be an independent, though, and the number is six times higher — around 37,000 valid petitions are necessary.
“The Democrat media complex is keeping COVID in the news cycle so that they can push for mail-in ballots instead of voting in person for the 2020 election,” Bernstein said. “Why would that be? Well, pretty simple: Because they have a dementia-riddled piece of crap scumbag, child predator and molester as their nominee, and they know that he doesn’t excite anybody, except maybe pedophiles and sick twisted individuals. … They know that they have no chance, zero chance of winning. There is only one way they can win and that is to steal it, because they’re all a bunch of soulless pieces of crap.”
“These people should have been aborted,” he continued. “These people are disgusting. I’m pro-life too, but man, I would have loved to have these people ripped apart. OK? These people are sick. They’re evil. They’re twisted. They’re Satanic. They are absolute dog shit.”
“This election is truly Trump or death,” Bernstein warned. “It is the death of your America. It is the death of your Second Amendment. It is the death of your right to speak freely, my right to speak freely. OK? Everything is on the line. My career, everything is on the line. Take this serious, please. I am begging you to take this serious.
They are blaming Trump for encouraging voter fraud when in fact he’s encouraging us to make sure our vote is counted. — NOS4A2
It’s hilarious too because they are now admitting the potential for fraud after months of claiming there was none. — NOS4A2
It’s hilarious too because they are now admitting the potential for fraud after months of claiming there was none. — NOS4A2
Trump goaded them into adopting a desperate dumpster fire of a narrative.
Can someone who requested an absentee ballot vote on Election Day?
State law dictates whether voters who were issued an absentee ballot are permitted to vote at a polling place on Election Day. In some cases, such as when the absentee ballot did not arrive and therefore was not counted, a provisional ballot may be available.
Track your ballot
Most states, with help from USPS, give your ballot a code. After you've requested it, you can go to the Secretary of State's website and see where you are in the process.
It looks sort of like ordering a pizza from Domino's and being able to see on your phone when it comes out of the oven. Or filing your taxes! The federal government notifies you about that, too.
But not all states offer this feature. And they're not all Southern states opposed to mail-in voting you might suspect. You might expect Texas to require an excuse for voting by mail and not offer a tracking system. But New York also requires an excuse and also does not track your ballot. Connecticut is an example of a Northeast state temporarily allowing absentee voting by mail, although they do not track your ballot.
If it doesn't arrive, you might want to head to your polling place and explore your options, which are probably filling out a provisional ballot.
But in this administration, that is his job, to protect the President of the US from legal charges, indictments and from impeachment etc.Yet again Barr is showing that his primary purpose is to protect Trump, not to do his job properly. — Michael
But Benkei, who could have known that? Nobody knew that.Unfortunately, suggesting to check the tabulation by breaking the law is still incitement. — Benkei
The media have been saying for weeks that mass mail voting is completely safe and fraud free. — Derukugi
Now suddenly, the narrative is that people can go and double-vote. — Derukugi
The real problem is shutting down polling stations, wrongly purging voter rolls, and removing mail sorting machines. — Michael
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