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Abramowitz: Polarization In Today's World
During our class discussion last week, we discussed about the polarization in our society in today’s world. In the reading by Abramowitz, he stated, “That problem was polarization. According to these observers, the sharp divisions between Democratic and Republican leaders were driving a wedge between party supporters in the electorate and alienating many moderate citizens from the political process.” This statement by Abramowitz shows us that Congress is still divided after decades of creating a political system to run America. We as a society need to be able to work together as a whole instead of being divided. There have been leaders in our society that tried to bring us together. However, no matter how hard they try to bring great minds …show more content…
Also, we as a society cannot achieve better if we work alone compare to working together. Such as, neanderthal and how they weren’t able to survive compared to us (homosapien). Neanderthal is a specie that works alone and are powerful. However, they dislike working together as a whole. They have so much potential to be the strongest specie on this world, but the one reason that brought them to extinction is their choice of working alone instead of together. We (homosapien) ended up being superior since we are able to group up and work together to survive. Division is the number one problem and if we are able to fix it, we can be greater and better as a whole. To bring this discussion back, I believe that cooperation is one of the most important trait to develop. It’s better to have help than to just try to accomplish a problem by oneself. Cooperation is one of the few traits that we don’t value as much as other traits until we see how much effect it has on us. However, as society advances, it still leaves us with a question regarding collaboration and division, will society choose to be divided or will they realize the value in working together as a
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