Editing 2010s (section)

====Western polarisation====
Socio-political polarisation increased as conservatives and social liberals clashed over the role and size of government and other social, economic and environmental issues in the [[Western world|West]]. In the [[United States]], polls showed a divided electorate regarding healthcare reform, immigration, gun rights, taxation, job creation, and debt reduction.<ref name="rasmussenreports.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/generic_congressional_ballot |title=Generic Congressional Ballot – Rasmussen Reports |publisher=Rasmussenreports.com |access-date=10 November 2011 |archive-date=8 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111108001850/http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/generic_congressional_ballot |url-status=live}}
*Jamrisko, Michelle. [http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/political_polarization_colors_measures_of_economic_confidence_newscred/ "Political polarisation affects economic views"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123160718/http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/political_polarization_colors_measures_of_economic_confidence_newscred/ |date=23 November 2020 }} ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]''. Associated Press, 2013. Web. 7 January 2015.
*{{cite news |first=Zeke |last=Miller |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/americans-want-higher-taxes-on-wealthy-no-entitlement-reform-in-super-committee-deal-2011-8 |title=Americans Want Higher Taxes on Wealthy, No Entitlement Reform In 'Super Committee' Deal |publisher=Businessinsider.com |date=10 August 2011 |access-date=10 November 2011 |archive-date=24 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124133404/https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-want-higher-taxes-on-wealthy-no-entitlement-reform-in-super-committee-deal-2011-8 |url-status=live}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/05/herman_cain_obama_just_doesnt_have_a_clue_on_economic_issues.html |title=Herman Cain: Obama "Just Doesn't Have A Clue" On Economic Issues |publisher=RealClearPolitics |date=5 September 2011 |access-date=10 November 2011 |archive-date=14 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214080342/https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/05/herman_cain_obama_just_doesnt_have_a_clue_on_economic_issues.html |url-status=live}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.democracycorps.com/wp-content/files/dcor120811fq_WEBSITE.pdf |title=Democracy Corps/Women's Voices. Women Vote Action Fund Frequency Questionnaire |access-date=12 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722134242/http://www.democracycorps.com/wp-content/files/dcor120811fq_WEBSITE.pdf |archive-date=22 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/congressional_favorability_ratings |title=Congressional Favourability Ratings – Rasmussen Reports |publisher=Rasmussenreports.com |date=27 October 2011 |access-date=10 November 2011 |archive-date=15 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115020732/http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/congressional_favorability_ratings |url-status=live}}</ref> In [[Europe]], movements protesting increasing numbers of refugees and migrants from [[Islamic countries]] developed, such as the [[English Defence League]] and [[Pegida]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/01/who-german-anti-islam-20151743438911640.html |title=Who is a German? |author=Jan Douwe Keulen |access-date=13 March 2015 |archive-date=27 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827100242/https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/01/who-german-anti-islam-20151743438911640.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/why-online-islamophobia-is-difficult-to-stop-1.2810242 |title=Why online Islamophobia is difficult to stop |date=2 November 2014 |access-date=13 March 2015 |archive-date=14 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214190830/https://www.cbc.ca/news/why-online-islamophobia-is-difficult-to-stop-1.2810242 |url-status=live}}</ref>
The trend of polarisation in the West was partially influenced by the prevalence of [[identity politics]], both [[left-wing]] and [[right-wing]], among [[activist]] movements.<ref>{{cite news |work=[[Politico]] |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/02/culture-war-liberals-conservatives-trump-2018-222095 |title=How Everything Became the Culture War |date=November 2018 |access-date=24 April 2019 |archive-date=24 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524050840/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/02/culture-war-liberals-conservatives-trump-2018-222095 |url-status=live}}</ref> Beginning around 2011, [[far-left]] and [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]] concepts such as combating [[social inequality]] and [[economic inequality]], often via [[progressive stack]] tactics, proliferated in the [[Western world]] and elsewhere.<ref>{{cite news |title=Why Identity Politics Could Be Good Politics For Democrats In 2020 |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-identity-politics-could-be-good-politics-for-democrats-in-2020/ |date=2 April 2019 |access-date=24 April 2019 |archive-date=20 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420092228/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-identity-politics-could-be-good-politics-for-democrats-in-2020/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Time |title=What's Intersectionality? Let These Scholars Explain the Theory and Its History |url=https://time.com/5560575/intersectionality-theory/ |date=29 March 2019 |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020230006/https://time.com/5560575/intersectionality-theory/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105 |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=May 2011 |title=Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% |first=Joseph |last=Stiglitz |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-date=6 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206042126/http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105 |url-status=live}}</ref> Around the middle of the decade, phenomenon such as [[white nationalism]], [[identitarianism]] and emboldened feelings of [[Nativism (politics)|nativism]] saw a marked reemergence in the West due to drastically increased migration and corresponding crime and amongst both the right and left general dissatisfaction with Western government and Media responses to certain issues.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Rise of Right-wing Populism in Europe and the United States |first=Thomas |last=Greven |date=May 2016 |url=http://dc.fes.de/fileadmin/user_upload/publications/RightwingPopulism.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://dc.fes.de/fileadmin/user_upload/publications/RightwingPopulism.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref> There were also increased calls for [[egalitarianism]], including between the sexes,<ref>England, Paula. "The gender revolution uneven and stalled" ''Gender & society'' 24.2 (2010): 149–166.</ref> and some scholars assert that a [[Fourth-wave feminism|fourth wave of feminism]] began around 2012, with a primary focus on [[intersectionality]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Nicola |last=Rivers |title=Postfeminism(s) and the Arrival of the Fourth Wave |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2017 |pages=4, 8 |isbn=978-3-319-59812-3 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-59812-3}}</ref><ref name="4thWave-Guardian20131210">{{cite news |last=Cochrane |first=Kira |author-link=Kira Cochrane |title=The Fourth Wave of Feminism: Meet the Rebel Women |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/fourth-wave-feminism-rebel-women |newspaper=The Guardian |date=10 December 2013 |access-date=17 January 2018 |archive-date=14 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314123922/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/fourth-wave-feminism-rebel-women |url-status=live}}</ref>