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I read this article this morning and it made me think maybe we're not as divided today as we were not too long ago...
Reminding us how deeply divided the country was in 1969, Rundle recounts being carried into an ambulance when, “Someone heard a bystander say, ‘I hope you die, you f**king hippie.’” Kahler, who like Rundle spent months in the hospital fighting for his life, remembers opening a greeting card that read, “Dear Communist, hippie, radical, I hope by the time you read this you are dead.”
The reason that we are actually more divided is because the leftist wing, instead of being annoying but usually peaceful hippies, are dangerous Antifa terrorists, socialists who admire the Soviet Union, anti-American ethnic mafias loyal to their race rather than America or its laws, and Muslim thugs who openly talk about Jews hypnotizing the world out of one side of their mouth while crying racism out of the other.
The reason that we are actually more divided is because the leftist wing, instead of being annoying but usually peaceful hippies, are dangerous Antifa terrorists, socialists who admire the Soviet Union, anti-American ethnic mafias loyal to their race rather than America or its laws, and Muslim thugs who openly talk about Jews hypnotizing the world out of one side of their mouth while crying racism out of the other.
You sound an awful lot like whomever wrote that greeting card back in 1969!
No doubt time for me to sign off before I lose my civility...
I don't think we're more divided, at least not average people. It's just that those with the most extreme veiwpoints end up having the loudest voices in today's outrage culture, clickbait news society. There's more incentive to write or share crazy statements about concentration camps made by AOC than realistic and rationale statements about health care made by John Delaney.
I'm conservative on almost every issue and I still agree with my democrat friends and family on lots of things that are more important than, climate change, LGBT rights, tax cuts, etc.
The reason that we are actually more divided is because the leftist wing, instead of being annoying but usually peaceful hippies, are dangerous Antifa terrorists, socialists who admire the Soviet Union, anti-American ethnic mafias loyal to their race rather than America or its laws, and Muslim thugs who openly talk about Jews hypnotizing the world out of one side of their mouth while crying racism out of the other.
Is what Illhan Omar said about AIPAC wrong though?
humanity has advanced on probably less than 10 percent of the populations brain power..whether its science or business genius...the rest of us do good to not be several hundred years behind the times and not give in to some emotional outburst and blow the world up
the feeling of being 1968 all over again struck me last year lol and the same cultures are clashing in some cases the same old people
The reason that we are actually more divided is because the leftist wing, instead of being annoying but usually peaceful hippies, are dangerous Antifa terrorists, socialists who admire the Soviet Union, anti-American ethnic mafias loyal to their race rather than America or its laws, and Muslim thugs who openly talk about Jews hypnotizing the world out of one side of their mouth while crying racism out of the other.
Yes Trump has been a unifying force with his tweets and rhetoric it’s the leftist media dividing the country.
I don't think we're more divided, at least not average people. It's just that those with the most extreme veiwpoints end up having the loudest voices in today's outrage culture, clickbait news society. There's more incentive to write or share crazy statements about concentration camps made by AOC than realistic and rationale statements about health care made by John Delaney.
I'm conservative on almost every issue and I still agree with my democrat friends and family on lots of things that are more important than, climate change, LGBT rights, tax cuts, etc.
Hard not to recognize how much more "noise" we're able to tune into these days not only with the Internet but so many sources of news. Not all that long ago it was a few major TV networks and what we heard about was for the most part condensed into an hour or two of news. Almost all of America simply tuned into Walter Cronkite and that was it...
Now, like you say, the multiple networks pick up every damn protest and comment that riles people up, and we're forever getting charged up about one damn thing or another. Maybe this too is why I like to read the news in the morning, avoid all the sensationalism and when it comes to TV, my wife and I enjoy our shows and movies, watch a little local news and then the PBS NewsHour; commercial free and without all the sensationalism. Even that one hour of news can be a little sobering however...
Is what Illhan Omar said about AIPAC wrong though?
Just do your research...
Talk about getting people riled up. This topic ought to do it!
Omar is certainly not the first to point out the issue of AIPAC influence, but back to Fox News...
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