088 - Moral Arguments

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🗓️ 4 November 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In this divisive and polarized era how do you bri…

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0:00.0	Oh, yeah.
0:01.0	Oh, and uh.
0:02.0	Oh.
0:03.0	Oh.
0:04.0	Oh, down down and through the middle of the party's
0:09.0	and get.
0:10.0	Yeah, we're cool, we up my bed.
0:12.0	They were quiet. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
0:27.0	Episode 88. Oh, oh, oh, oh.
0:35.0	And do me. According to the Pew Research Center, Republicans and Democrats in the United States
0:52.1	are more divided along ideological lines than at any point in the last two decades.
0:59.0	So if you're a freshman in college or younger, you've never lived in a more politically divided world than today. And any way you look at it, this is getting worse.
1:23.2	The numbers seem to suggest that as a whole, the country is dividing itself into two mental
1:28.8	tribes, two groups of people who think differently about what is true, what is right and wrong, and
1:35.2	what ought to be legal and illegal.
1:37.8	And for a while after the Civil War, Americans had a lot more overlap in their beliefs.
1:43.0	Even if you self-identified as a Republican,
1:46.0	you tended to hold a lot of liberal values and vice versa.
1:50.0	It was once a lot messier, bluer, more diverse, but the trend since the 1970s has been a steady clustering into two homogenized camps of people. In 1994, the graph showed that the median left and the median right
2:08.5	positions were almost side by side. By 2014, those medians had moved so far away from one another that the
2:16.2	clustering of American ideologies started to look like a cell dividing with that
2:21.6	skinny strip in the middle holding an ever smaller group of
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