re: I Made A Mistake, We Are Doomed!

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I am at the point of having the opinion that the divide in this country cannot be fixed with discussion and compromise. Let's just pick a side have a all out civil war between the right and left.

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The country is not as divided as people think. Not as divided as many politicians and the media have you believing.

One problem with social media is that it gives a very small, almost meaningless segment of the population a megaphone that makes them seem so much bigger than they really are. And it’s true for the right and left.

The overwhelming majority of people are somewhere in the middle and agree on more things than they disagree on.

I came to understand this when I lived in California for a couple of years. Being a more right leaning person from the south, I thought living in the west coast would be incredibly difficult with all the commies and hippies that supposedly live out there.

Nothing was further from the truth. True most people leaned a bit more left than I did, but there was no real animosity and because we were just normal people we got along great and many of those same people are now great friends.

Funny what happens when you turn off the TV or computer and actually go out and talk to people.