JustWonders wrote:Freeduck - I respect your opinion that there's a deep divide in the country, but I just don't see it in everyday life.
That's because the divide is both political and geographical. I imagine that if you live in certain communities everyone you see may very well be united. But venture out to other parts of the country and you will find something else.
I also imagine that if you knew for a fact that your ideas were the minority in your community you might decide to keep them to yourself.
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There's a divide here on A2K for sure, but given some of the comments before the election, I think most of us more or less expected that. I don't think it's necessarily representative of the country as a whole.
It just cannot be lost on the liberals or Democrats here that there are huge problems their party needs to address. We can forget the fringe groups on both sides (the right-wing religious nuts and the left-wing loonies - such as those at DU) because they don't count in the larger picture.
Most of us don't give a **** about the Democratic party or what it needs to do. We want an alternative to the Republicans and we don't care who that is. The divide will remain regardless of who the oposition party is and regardless of who the party is that's in power. This is about the american people and not about political parties.
Everyone likes it when leaders govern from the center, and if that is what this administration was doing then I might be able to agree that there is no divide in this country or at least that it is not as big as we think. The fact is that this president galvanizes people.
