Posted on 11/25/2018 5:55:47 AM PST by davikkm
I first realized something in America was changing back in November 2015. My family was on vacation in New Zealand to visit my sister who was studying abroad there. A Republican candidate for president, Donald J. Trump, was gaining in popularity on the right. Politics came up. I defended the Donald and I came under attack from my sibling. I became far too defensive. Things got heated and personal and have in the intermittent months since then. We haven’t talked politics for quite some time now.
With Trump’s rise to the White House, things appear to have gotten only more divisive. At least on the surface. I hope you made it through Thanksgiving without any uncomfortable conversations over dinner. But with everything coming back to politics these days, I’m sure many of you were unable to avoid it. The nation feels more polarized than ever and we were already trending in that direction prior to Trump. He has accelerated the division and the hatred of left vs. right. The personalization of politics and the emotional state Americans have been getting in over politics has become unhealthy. I think it peaked during the Kavanaugh confirmation process, but who knows, things are likely to get worse from here as we are entering into the dreaded 2020 presidential race already (one more time for Hillary?).
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What's funny is even the liberals in the midwest wouldn't go for that, except maybe the ones in Madison. But the ones in Milwaukee would have nothing to do with the liberal in NY or Boston. I suspect other states would have the same. Chicago libs and NY libs getting along? lol.
He thinks he has it bad...
My sibling in NZ almost had a stroke in Dec 2000 when I revealed I had chosen Bush over the precious darling Algore and was praying the recounting would go his way...
:)
“How do you break bread with an individual who can witness a gruesome human abortion with icy indifference but will weep hysterically at the sight of a tree being cut?”
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How do you break bread with one who does not believe in the goodness of the nation, who does not care they destroy the heritage our forefathers fought to achieve. Their fathers died that they might be free. Yet they do not care.
And to break bread on such a day as Thanksgiving, they say no blessing before they begin. Why? Because they do not care.
I’d rather starve eating worms from my garden.
Thankful that this will not be repeated year after year. The truth has set us free. Never again. Never again.
The journalism establishment - pretty much co-extensive with the Associated Press and its member news outlets - simultaneously positions itself as the arbiter of “what is, the natural order of things," and as virulently anti-Republican.In reality it is and has been since the late Nineteenth Century negative about society - and therefore positive to the point of naiveté about government. Any insinuation that "negativity is objectivity" is cynicism. Journalism which positions itself as objective is in fact cynical.
No wonder that journalism is worth at least a dozen points of tailwind for Democrats . . .
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