A review by alexckwok
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop

5.0

An engrossing book by Bill Bishop about the clustering of Americans into different groups and how this clustering has degraded the sense of community and idea of bipartisanship in America. Although the problem may not have been as pronounced when this book initially came out, the idea now that like minded Americans are clustering together and demanding representatives who share all of their views is a huge problem in society.

As one side shfits farther to the left, and the other side shifts farther to the right, independents are increasingly finding themselves alienated. Bill Bishop's book attempts to explain why this is/how this happened leading up to the 2004 and 2008 election, the movements behind this action, as well as what the shift has been in recent years.

Though one might wonder in Bill Bishop's division of Americans, is this knowledge going to bring Americans closer together, or is this still pushing us further apart? Furthermore, it seems like Bishop's book is not really geared towards the average American's understanding as someone from the outside looking in on the broken system, but more of a political strategist perspective on what is happening.