Are Politics Making Americans Boring?
The World’s Most Diverse, Innovative, and Surprising Nation Is in Danger of Becoming Entirely Predictable
America—arguably the world’s most diverse, innovative, and surprising nation—is becoming a lot more predictable. And boring.
According to the most recent Pew Research Poll on political polarization, Americans are becoming more consistently liberal or conservative in their opinions, and ideological thinking is much more aligned with political party membership than before. This means that the overlap between the two parties that existed two decades ago—when there were conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans—is gone. And so we have fewer people—both political apostates and regular, moderate folks—who can bridge the gap between the …
