re: Is this the most divided our nation has been in your lifetime?

The social media age has provided a megaphone to our fringe elements (both left and right, but the left fringe has more media/corporate support).

In turn these elements have emboldened the fringes to the point that, in their mind, they represent the “only” acceptable view, and no one else is worthy of getting close to the microphone. .

Politicians have figured out that they only need to appeal to the loudest mouths in their districts, not the balance of their own constituents.

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My 3 sons and I are ready to mobilize at any moment to defend the right

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and I am fully prepared to give endless moral support

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Yes. Things got heated in the 60s with the Vietnam protests and assassinations, but people were mostly trusting of the media and the political rhetoric, for the most part, was not as divisive.

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You really have no idea. Shooting black people or anyone with long hair was a common conversation. Bombs on campuses were a real concern. When you graduated from high school you had to figure out how to avoid the draft or you had a good chance of dying. What happened Wednesday was an ongoing threat in government buildings and college campuses across the nation. It wasn’t just left vs right. You had riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention because the left wasn’t left enough.

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It’s not just the left. The right is just as virulent in its opposition to anything just left of a centrist position on any issue.

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I know us trump people use terms like leftist, tear-jerker, libtard can't think of much worst...but we are called nazis and white supremacists, racists...so big reason for division

Yes but also not that old

Yes.

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It's the rabid virulence of the left toward anyone who disagrees with them on anything.

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So you're saying it's just the left? It isn't both sides most idiotic fringe 2% making everyone look bad? Nearly every person of every race and every social class i know are decent and level headed.

All except the service department at matt bowers jeep on Airline. frick those people

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Let’s put it this way. My 3 sons and I are ready to mobilize at any moment to defend the right.

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People aren’t being assassinated left and right. Kids aren’t being drafted. Black people aren’t third class citizens. Women aren’t second class citizens.

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According to Leftists, all these things are still happening. Blacks are being genocided, 75% of women are raped in college, the KKK is in charge, gays are rounded up in camps, and white men should be punished. Leftists push this toxic narrative through the MSM, academia, and social media.