WOTM: Division
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People keep saying that this is the most divided time in America history — since the Civil War. I suspect that might be true. Although, desegregation, civil rights, and the Vietnam War/Watergate eras are certainly contenders. I don't think it's a mystery as to why we're so divided, and I lay out my reasoning here. Enjoy!
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Comments (15)
I would be inclined to note that the period between the Civil War and now was most likely the unusual time. There was a pretty strong authoritarian/fascist movement in the US in the 1920's and 1930's. One might note that the Civil War veterans had largely died out then, just as the WW II veterans have died out now. It is entirely plausible that our longest periods of suppressing authoritarianism coincide with very large groups of veterans of wars against authoritarian movements being the dominant voting blocs. As those blocs fade, the movement returns.
Spot on, Brian! [Pure coincidence, I'm sure, that the vast majority of PAB's followers are religious.]
It's just a coincidence that this is post #666, right? 😉
Or is it?
One of the two sides succeeded in weaponizing language so that if/when you try to reason with individuals you fail because they react emotionally to keyword triggers. Trump didn't fall from the sky and divisiveness came about over decades since Reagan. Good example is how Christopher Rufu redifined CRT as a boogyman then had about half the country believe it then bragged about having accomplished that on Twitter. Icing on the crap-cake: when any of us call them on this they accuse *us* of being devisive. Right.
As someone who doesn't live in the US I'm shocked at how vitriolic the political process has become that is until we had our own mini me Trump in the guise bodger Johnson. Just awful
+ the efficacy of vaccines.
I tell me republican friends "Even I agreed with Trumps politics (I don't) I could not stand behind this immortal liar, who clearly only looks out for himself." They then respond with "He has his flaws who doesn't?" Which is like saying "Hitler had his flaws but he looked great in a uniform."
Face it, there are potentially 70 to 80 million stupid people who will vote for Drumph, if he makes it to Election Day. Intelligent people have to make sure they are registered, and they vote for Biden and the Democrats. Spread the word.
'Tis all too true, Brian. I have never belonged to any party —and never will— but my political philosophy has definitely become more and more progressive. What shocks me the most right now isn't the disgusting existence of Inmate P01135809, but that there are citizens who actually support him! Good Gaia Almighty! What has happened to basic decency in this world? Then again, I think of how Joey, long dead and buried, is still conning people with his stone-in-a-hat, and I can only conclude that most of our species is stupid as hell, incapable of critical thinking, willing to bow and scrape to whatever Alpha seems like the meanest (ergo, best!) son-of-bitch in the chimpanzee troop. Honest to Elohim, how can anybody believe someone who would claim this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR3f95BGIiA
"I know more about being indecent than anybody!"
Brian - I thank you for being a voice of reason in the irrational circus that is maga. I have said many times that Voldemort- don't like to even write his name -is the worst person to ever darken the doorstep of American politics . Thankyou thankyou thankyou.
Word!
Trump's base consists mainly of the followers of "GOP Jesus". They have taken the good bits of his teachings and completely reversed them. The hypocrisy is staggering.
'WARNING: This is a political video.' Oh Bri Bri, if you only knew. Might as well say to Coke fiend 'May contain opioids' . I'm a sucker for politics in my own country as well as many overseas ones, but you guys in the USA are without peer. The premier league for spectator politics. We currently have a deceptively dull PM in Australia but it's actually a depressingly 'whimper sans bang' slide into right wing conformity even under a left side PM thanks to that Overton prick and his rapidly shifting window. The UK has it's own self harming puppet parade of billionaires and landed gentry doing their best to ruin the robust Westminster system. But no one in the world has a thing that compares with the all singing all dancing, crap of the world, three ring shit show that ring master Trump and his howler monkey tribe have inflicted on your democracy. I grew up in the dark days of Regan and Thatchers 'Ayn Randian' global love fest, and was bowled over when Bush the second lurched even further to the right post 9/11. But what the mutated Teaparty monster have done under Trump is a genuine horror show that has me longing for the halcyon days of incoherent Bush and face shooting Cheney. Sure they were thoroughly awful hypocrites willing to sell out their own children for a bigger slice of the pie, but at least they played by ninety five percent of the rules. And even when they didn't they had the human decency to look guilty about it. Without any trace of hyperbole I fear for the great American experiment. I think the supreme courts ruling on whether presidents past and future have the powers of a king is due within 24 hours of me writing this. I hope at least a couple of them have enough contact with reality to end this farce, but I have seen little evidence of it recently. No prayers and no best wishes, but I can't help but cross my fingers for you guys.