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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Not really. Politics always gets people fired up. Always has, always will.
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But in the U.S., at least, people have become far more polarized politically and socially.
http://religionandpolitics.org/2016/...rary-politics/
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In the 1960s and 70s, something like two-thirds of married couples came from the same political party (as Iyengar points out, even if marriages were totally random, 50 percent would be between people with similar political affiliations). Today, that number is closer to 90 percent.
A 1960 survey found that around 5 percent of partisans would mind if their sons or daughters married someone of a different political party. “They really dismissed the question as irrelevant,” said Iyengar, who has dug into more detailed reports from the 1960 study. A 2010 YouGov poll asking the same question found that 49 percent of Republicans and 33 percent of Democrats would be somewhat or very upset if their child married someone from the other political party.
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Things aren't as bad yet in Canada. But civility has definitely declined in our political discourse. As GGG pointed out, we increasingly regarded all political issues as moral struggles, and regard people who oppose our politics as malicious or morally unsound.