re: Are we so politically divided now that our differences are irreconcilable?

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Are we so politically divided now that our differences are irreconcilable?

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It's been like this since Watergate - it's only blatantly obvious now because of social media.

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The message that we are divided is 100% propaganda, and the people who receive that message are, generally speaking, marks who watch way too much tv.

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Now I know we're done. What a frightening take. When people can't reach a consensus on what the truth is, it's over.
So were "marks" with a propensity to believe propaganda?

By the way, I don't watch TV.

It is...online, and, apparently, Portland...the rest of the country, IRL, seems to be normally going about their business and keeping their politics to themselves (of course there is the occasional jackass, but that's life).

Yes. My dad and I don't talk. He is a lost cause and cares more about party than rule of law or the constitution.


A total whack job. It will eventually be communist/libertarian eventually and that will be civil war like when the sides finally fill up.

Lots of republicans are becoming more libertarian minded and lots of democrats are becoming Communist minded. One side wants government to do everything and crush anyone who disagrees; the other side wants government to GTFO and allow people to dictate their own lives and allow states to govern how they choose.

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I don't believe the average democrat is a hateful, seething socialist

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Only about 90% of them are like this.

There's an ever increasing likelihood that civil unrest will be the result of the ongoing Dim Resistance against Trump. There's reason for concern regardless of your political affiliation.....the Dims will not be satisfied until Americans are fighting each other in the streets.

Yep it is the deep state vs patriots now.

I blame social media and the associated disconnect and the echo chambers they create for the state of the world now.

Never before social media would I ever hear of friends and family disassociating from one another for political differences. Now it's commonplace.

I'm done with them. frick every damn Dem forever and a day. I really hope that we keep the senate and win back the house. Add that to Trump for another 4 years. And we need to rain down all kinds of fricking hell on the Dems for the next 4 years. shite, just make stuff up. I don't give a damn. Just make the frickers shite twice and die.