WHY POLITICAL WORLD IS SO DIVIDED
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Why political world is so divided
politics in a huge way create divisions among people, this happens more when different political parties are involved. This political division creates mutual group distrust between the two groups; as a result, people end up being divided as per the party they support, and they now begin to perceive politics as “us” versus “them”. This brings out the term polarization, which is referred to as the divergent of political attitude to ideology extreme. Political polarizations represent tension of party denies and its binary political ideologies in the most two-party system. Various causes result into the division of people due to politics which include; political parties, the public’s political ideologies, and redistricting, which are further illustrated below as follows Feinberg & Wehling (2018).
Political party polarization. Diverging parties being the greatest driving forces of polarization have increased. Political parties can cause polarization among elites and the electronic by adopting a more ideologically distinct position. According to political scientists, politicians have incentives to support polarized work. They have also discovered that candidates who align with the doctrines of the party are more likely to run as compared to moderates since are seen as party fit. A study by Nicholson (2012) found leaders of the opposing party polarize voters with contentious statements than their own party-political leaders, as a result, may take polarized opinions. Other theories state Politian who highly caters for groups within their political party are more successful. However, they are helped to continue staying in the office while they’re at the same time pulling their constituency toward the polar. Political donors and fundraisers have extreme control and influence over the legislatures since they provide party leaders with the funds required to run the campaigns of the party. According to Sartori (1966,1976), a further division within the political parties of the countries is caused by splitting of ideologies in the public constituency Feinberg & Wehling (2018).
Public’s political ideology. Citizens are given a chance to vote for their political leader to represent them in democratic governments and other representative government. The public voting preferences and ideology reflect political polarization. According to Dixt and Weilbull (2007), there is a link between the polarization of representatives and public differences. However, an increase in preferences differences results in ultimate compromise and is usually temporary. Emerging of polarization has often been influenced by ethnic, religious and other cultural divides within the public. Layman (2005) claims that these ideologies split between the U.S democratic, which is more moderate in religious view and republican traditionist. Thus, democratic voters are less likely to vote for candidates who are evangelical. The public may be polarized by ethnic division in some post-colonial countries that remain from the regime of colonialism, for instance, South Africa where people they divided based on racial division resulting to polarization along the ethnic line. Morris (2006, 2008) suggest the hypothesis that polarization is an event which commentators formulated to draw further division in the government; this does not hold for the public Feinberg & Wehling (2018).
Redistricting. The effect of redistricting is felt potentially through manipulation of the electoral borders in favour of a political party. Manipulation is achieved by opposition voters being packed into a majority congressional district in the same region. In contrast, the preferred party’s being distributed over the majority of sections by a smaller majority than it would have existed. Ton the other hard mass media has significantly resulted in the division of people in the political world.it have grown as an institution. Political scientist argued that media have hugely affected the public in the past three decades. The mass media’s current high choice environment has led to a movement of the audience from more programmed even-toned politics to more contending articles and broadcast. The programmed tent to appeal patrician viewer who watches the polarized programming as a self-confirming source of their opinion. Countries with upcoming media market, although are less diversified, have become more polarized due to the diversifications of political media. The filter bubble effects of online media consumption are exaggerated as per the 2011 study, which found the ideological division of online news consumption is lower than the most offline news consumption and the segregation of face interaction. Other researchers show that online media doesn’t lead to an increase in polarization of ideology. A 2017 study found that political polarization can be potentially be reduced by providing impartial and objective information to people. This information is essential for example, polarization over the spending of the government which was relieved when the taxpayer’s receipt was provided to the people but not when they were requested to give their suggestions of its spending Feinberg & Wehling (2018).
So many factors have resulted in people being divided by politics. Even though to some extent leaders have resulted in war among the voters, they should try to unite them despite of the people’s opinion to create a united world. Also, voters should live with their fellow people despite their differences respecting that everybody has a right to make his own decision, Feinberg & Wehling (2018).
Reference
Feinberg, M., & Wehling, E. (2018). A moral house divided: How idealized family models impact political cognition. PloS one, 13(4), e0193347.