10-15-2020, 07:02 AM
(10-14-2020, 09:50 PM)Dill Wrote: The question is not really whether one side has a "monopoly" though. Nor whether "both sides do it."
The question is whether one side has been primarily driving the language and the "us vs them" framing that you singled out.
And that is an empirical question which can be answered with some across-the-spectrum research into political speeches and commentary.
Well, it has been answered. I've seen the articles on the topic, dug into the research. And you are correct that this has been driven primarily by one side. One side did start it, and it is more common on one side than the other.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
