As the US midterm election approaches, foreign media worry that the phenomenon of political polarization in the United States will only intensify.
The US " Washington Post " website published an article on October 28 saying that the reasons are many, but the most important driving factor is undoubtedly that the US political arena has increasingly strengthened the extremist party forces in the past few decades at the expense of mainstream.
article points out that the primary election system used by American political parties to select candidates is extremely unusual. The party primary ensures that the candidates elected are selected by a portion of the party—about 20% of all eligible voters. These voters are the most extreme and restless radicals, and their views are often much more extreme than ordinary Republicans or Democrats. Some extremist candidates run in "safe constituencies" and the only threat they face is a more extreme primary candidate.
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article commented that in the United States, democracy has become the rule of a minority, and these powers are not representative, full of anger and increasingly radical.
According to Latin American News Agency, the situation has become more complicated as American politics becomes polarized. Republicans today have shifted to the right so much that the most "conservative" Democrats and the most "free" Republicans lack common language.
Currently, the two parties in the United States are much more alienated on ideology than in the past. Experts say that after Trump became the absolute leader of the Republican Party, his extreme thoughts influenced more people.
Source: Reference Message Network
