Yes, it's Republicans' fault Congress is so polarized
It's what has happened in Congress over the last five decades, according to a report from the Pew Research Center examining roll call votes of lawmakers beginning in the early 1970s.
Using a system that ranks members of Congress from -1 (most liberal) to 1 (most conservative), Pew found that the average Senate Democrat (-.06) and House Democrat (-.07) have grown only marginally more liberal between the 1970s and today.
The average Senate (+.28) and House Republican (+.25) have, however, grown significantly more conservative over that same period.
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"The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
"When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country's challenges."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/politics/congress-asymmetric-polarization-pew-research-center/index.html
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is too easy for stupid, lazy pigs lusting for power and wealth in a duopoly. Add cynical divide-and-conquer along ethnic lines and a melting pot may start to fracture.
