In the US, studies have shown the public is growing more polarized.
Before, the average republican and democrat held many liberal and conservative positions respectively, but now, the average republican and democrat hold few, if any liberal and conservative positions, respectively.
Of course republicans and dems always had their disagreements (many of them manufactured and deliberately exaggerated by the deep state), in fact they couldn’t exist as independent entities without them, but now they’re going so far as to accuse each other of treason.
As far as I can remember, this is mostly unprecedented in my lifetime.
I think the internet is partly responsible, it’s exposing people to fringe ideas, ideals and ideologues on both the right, and left, especially the right, as right wing extremists have been far more marginalized by government, the MSM and political correctness than left wing extremists.
Social media helped Trump get elected, which’s of course why the deep state is now clamping down on it as millions flee social media giants facebook, google, twitter, youtube and so on in search of freer social media platforms such as Bitchute.
In a sense Trump is the first 21st century president (ironically given how old he is and how he wants to take the US back to the mid 20th century in some respects) because of his reliance on social media, populism and antipathy to the MSM.
But the internet alone can’t account for political polarization, it’s merely supplying us with alt-think, it isn’t creating the demand, but both growing income inequality on the one hand, and growing hostility to whites, men and Christians on the other, is.
Increasingly desperate times call for radical departures in trajectory.
The rise of domestic terrorism (first Islamic and then white nationalist as a reaction), a series of disastrous excursions and military blunders in west Asia culminating in the migrant crisis in the EU, and the US’s own migrant crisis are also major factors.
Globalization, the uprooting and displacement of races and cultures has never before occurred on such a vast scale as now.
We’re entering uncharted waters, so it should come as no surprise if our ship capsizes.
WASPs in the Anglosphere were ultimately able to absorb millions of Irish, Italians, Poles, Jews and so on after some tumult, but it still remains to be seen whether Europeans will be able, and willing to absorb millions of non-Europeans.
The people are divided at best and at worst, vehemently opposed to mass migration (hence populism, what the people believe is in their best interests as opposed to what the elite says), especially illegal immigration and refugees from the 3rd world.
Mass migration from the 3rd world is not a grassroots, organic, spontaneous phenomenon, it’s been orchestrated, this is what the deep state has decided is in our, or rather their best interests.
Now they’re facing an increasingly vocal and mostly grassroots, as far as I can tell, uprising.
It’s not just in the US, but in the EU and even Brazil (see Jair Bolsonaro) alt right parties headed by Nigel Farage in the UK, Marine Le Pen in France, Matteo Salvini in Italy, Viktor Orban in Hungary and PIS in Poland are winning elections, and it’s not just the alt right that’s gaining ground, but to a lesser extent environmentalist parties throughout Europe, so while polarization is growing in one sense, in another politics are diversifying.
Finally liberals and neocons are having to share some of their power with the alt right and others, and of course they resent it.
I just hope the transition to populism, the alt right and whatever else away from liberals and neocons occurs, and occurs relatively peacefully, because let’s face it politics as usual no longer works in the 21st century (it never really did), but the deep state isn’t going to die easily (well it won’t die so much as be driven underground where it’ll undoubtedly undergo cosmetic surgery before it dares rear its ugly head again), this could all very well lead to civil war and the balkanization of the US, the EU and the western world at large.