Barack Obama's re-election: a country divided

[Dylan]

[OGPhilly]

Yeah. But it still just doesn't register in my mind why people get so upset about differences of political opinions that they refuse to talk to each other. I like the discussion and don't get it. My brain just isn't wired that way I guess.

[Dylan]

I find most people are that way about any sort of debates though. People who self select here obviously aren't.

[Mr.Bill]

The gap is huge.. Neither side, especially the right and the TP wants to compromise at all.. Zero..

There is NO doubt the media is playing it up.. There's many, many people getting very rich with the doom and gloom rhetoric and portraying the other side as demons and villains.. But IMO I can't put it all on the media.. When the media reports a TP person saying the TP won't compromise one inch with Obama that's not the media's fault he said that.. They are just reporting it.

[The Dharma Bum]

I think both sides are equally horrible.

Yeah, partisan politics sucks. These two groups have far too much power.

[Dylan]

[The Comrade]

the political gap is becoming wider as political leanings are increasingly tied with your culture and there is slightly widening cultural gap that's been opening since, arguably, the 80s.

it's not so much that the inherent political differences are wide, it's that they're so closely tied with cultural values. republicans are tied with ignorant red necks, democrats with elitist college students. while not an absolute there's some truth to the perception. it's also true that on a cultural level those two groups will never see eye to eye.


this sounds far worse than how it's playing out in my mind but i just woke up so forgive me. i'll clarify it later if needed.