US: Pew Research Center analysis finds that Democrats and Republicans in Congress are now farther apart ideologically than at any time in the past 50 years. Republicans have moved further to the right than Democrats have to the left.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/10/the-polarization-in-todays-congress-has-roots-that-go-back-decades/ #PewResearch
US: On average, Congress has become more conservative over the past five decades, according to #PewResearch analysis.
50 years ago in the House, 144 Republicans were less conservative than the most conservative Democrat, and 52 Dems were less liberal than the most liberal Repub. Since 2002, there’s been no overlap at all between the least liberal Democrats and the least conservative Republicans.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/10/the-polarization-in-todays-congress-has-roots-that-go-back-decades/ @politicalscience
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The whole nation has moved very far to the extreme right.
I don't vote for Democrats because I think they will fix anything. I vote for Democrats because they are less fascist than Republicans, and I hope that they will destroy things less effectively.
Conrad Hackett 
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