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Is the United States becoming more or less divided?

SW-User
It feels like you are being pushed to take a side and you can no longer walk the middle road as I use to do. You get called names like snowflake or intolerant or racist or whatever is in vogue for people to call you that day.
It is like you are not only being told what to think you are being told you had better think like us or you are (fill in the blank).
Rae ... only capitulation will get B to stop.

Cut your losses on this one ... just block her
@SW-User I know you've never said that, but there are people who are saying it. People whom I would never have imagined are now equating the things such groups believe as "just another opinion, as worthy of respect and consideration as any other".
SW-User
@bijouxbroussard No people have to earn my respect and they never will be able to ever.
Of-course, it is becoming more divided because the goon (believer of white power) is in white house now!...Modern age republicans, good for nothing fellows but always ready to war, steal people's wealth and manipulating foreign politics that further creates trouble for the world!...He'll not only divide USA but will cause mayhem for the world by instigating 'World War 3'!!!
You have declared me your enemy ... that is not nice

I sure you just were not thinking it through
@questionWeaver Oh!...So, you're a republican!...It's a mere clash of ideologies Sir!...Didn't we enjoy debating over my view-point about North Korea Vs USA situation?...It was a good debate!...We didn't curse each other!...:)
Not ideology at all

You are suggesting violence

I do not spend time with those that incite domestic unrest

You now fit neatly in the category of hater-white supremist

Told folks if I met one or suspected one, I would distance myself.

Later

Much later
BatRinseRepeat · 31-35, F
Except for a few brief periods, I think its always been this way.

The Civil War, the Great Depression, and Vietnam were in fact much worse than most of what we agonize over now.

Money, power, and privelge have always divided us more than politics. But we keep fooling ourselves that we can fix the problem by just changing parties.
BatRinseRepeat · 31-35, F
@bijouxbroussard

I can't disagree with any experience that painful and personal.

But I wonder how much of what we see and hear now is the effect of individual access to mass media. Is it possible we've always had about the same number of people, with the same extreme views? Has the internet just given them a new way to express and magnify their fringe politics?
@BatRinseRepeat That's a fair point. I'm probably feeling shell shocked because these people are deciding the Bay Area is the place to cut their teeth on the "Hate Speech = Free Speech" movement. I'm not used to having to deal with that as much in what has been a bastion of liberal, progressive thought.
BatRinseRepeat · 31-35, F
@bijouxbroussard

One way or another, we all have to deal.

Courage Ma Cheri ✌
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
To an outsider it appears to be more divided - with the present President I can't see the situation improving in the near future
Hey buzz ... apologies ... had to distance myself from one those troublemakers.

Sorry it was in your thread!

Owe you one
BuzzCut · 36-40, M
@questionWeaver Who are you referring to? I don't know if I saw it.
MCOldSchool

Nice fellow ... just a little overheated with the rhetoric

Reminded me of the young fellow who drove his car into the crowd at charlottesville
BuzzCut · 36-40, M
@questionWeaver Oh, I see it now.
SW-User
They were always divided, so many stereotypes and categories to separate them from each other
Not more ... lines are becoming clearer
Ramon67 · 61-69, M
More divided
SW-User
MasterLee · 56-60, M
More and more, all the time it seems.
YMITheWayIM · 46-50, M
Even if it is, it would still read USA, Untied States of........
BuzzCut · 36-40, M
@YMITheWayIM Would you like me to edit it? I don't want any hissy fits.

 
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