polarization

polarization

David Broder writes about the polarization of the two main political parties in the USA in this Washington Post article.

Since the parties are polarizing, with Democrats pulling more to the left and Republicans pulling more to the right, perhaps the time is nearly ripe to form a third party, one which occupies the center of the political spectrum. The Liberals in Canada have been successful with that position for the better part of a century: steal the best ideas of the left and the right for your own platform, portray all opponents as "extreme", and go for that huge bloc of votes that occupies the political center. Call it the Moderate party.

dammit. Why do I think of stuff like this? I'm a Libertarian, fercryinoutloud.