[cwaniak]

There are these interesting developments that I noticed and I'm interested to see how many others noticed that: (1) Polarization of left vs right views among people in both US and EU (2) Sudden drastic turn to the right in many places in the EU while at the same time turn to the left in the US.

It seems to me that since 1945 the US has been mostly right wing and is turning left radically, while the opposite is true in the EU.

[TeMPOraL]

There's something to it. It's anecdotal, but looking at the trends in political discussions in Poland among my generation (folks in their 20s), it seems to me that they want changes in the very direction of what people in US have and complain about...

[tjaerv]

False dichotomy. There is more than one dimension. For starters, see the Nolan chart:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart