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Pew Graphs Illustrate Our Growing Partisan Divide

I found this graph posted by “Number 6” on Twitter today. [1] I haven’t been able to track it down independently. If it is accurate, it painfully illustrates our growing cultural/political/partisan divide. In three colors, this is why we can’t talk with each other across the aisle any longer.

cultural divide [1]

I think this illustration is worth considering even though it is generally counter-productive to discuss political attitudes on a one-dimensional scale of left-to-right. [2] It is useful in this context because there are only two options for voting for president this year if you want to be able to cast your vote for a person who will actually become president.

Brett Weinstein comments how dangerous this is that our political orientations are increasingly distant from each other.  I agree with him:

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