(June 11, 2016 at 1:38 pm)abaris Wrote:(June 11, 2016 at 1:07 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Yeah, there seems to be a lot of polarization going on in Western society nowadays. How quickly we forget!
Frankly, I don't see it as polarization. The extreme right is gaining and all the others try to preserve what we achieved in the last 70+ years. There's no extreme left to speak of, apart from a few strays surfacing at certain demonstrations and trying their hands at some violence of their own.
I haven't got the exact numbers without looking them up, but rightwing violence has increased by a few 100 percent only in the last year. They published the results and they're in the public domain. It's a frightening increase.
I guess I'm speaking from the American perspective. The refusal of the two wings to work together usually results in the bird falling to earth.
