Labelling the sides as Red versus Blue is convenient (as in; people know what you mean) but boy is it damaging to simplify like this. It's not the authors fault at all, he's simply using the nomenclature of the time, but it makes me sad to see how polarized we've all become.
Ultimately I think the labels act as a screen that people use to bucket people in, and if you ain't in my bucket, I ain't going to listen. Which just perpetuates the polarization.
Ultimately I think the labels act as a screen that people use to bucket people in, and if you ain't in my bucket, I ain't going to listen. Which just perpetuates the polarization.