Can the polarization between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. be reversed?

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Just move liberals to Sweden. Problem solved.

But that would leave a nuclear armed nation in the hands of imbecilic nutcases.

I know we started it by sending all the imbeciles over there in the first place, but that was a long time ago. We thought they'd grow out of it.

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I found myself on the other side when we elected Bush Lite twice. He wasn't particularly far to the right - just such a fucking dumb-ass.

Actually Shrub was very much hard right.  That's how far the political discourse has swung to the right in rcent years, that people are now able to espouse social and economic policies that the likes of Thatcher and Reagan were afraid of implementing (because it was political suicide back then) and the likes of Heath and Nixon (remember outside of the racism and criminality Nixon was to the left of today's mainstream) wouldn't even dream of.

Jeremy Corbyn is in political theory terms a middle of the road Social-Democrat espousing economic and social policies which have been shown by history to be the best way to run a country.  Yet  he's portrayed in the media as  further left than Trotsky.  That's what allows the likes of Shrub and Dumbfuck and the rest of the conservatives to swing ever closer to the far right every year without outcry

Yes the whole world seems to have lunged to the far right. Strangely people seem to think that the left is a danger when its the right who are doing all the damage. 
The right is linked to all the stupid and hateful things. Racism, climate change denial, oppression of all minorities, religious intolerance (they only tolerate their own brand), nationalism and above all they always ALWAYS wreck economies by creating bubbles, deregulation and cutting taxes for the wealthy.