You are brave for starting this conversation, @meno. I think it takes some guts to bring up American politics on social media these days. Everyone is so touchy!
It is a bizarre time in history. I am dumbfounded by people’s behaviors daily, on both sides.
I don’t want anyone to feel persecuted for their ideas or beliefs, even if they support a political perspective I don’t understand or condone. And yet, that is what is happening, based on the goings-on you just described. There is so much irony in that, isn’t there?
I hope that one day this will all simmer down and we will again feel like the United States.
The big problem is that both sides see the other as some sort of vile abomination that needs to be quashed. It isn't healthy for reasonable discourse.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. We're digging trenches right now. The best way to defuse the powder keg we currently sit in is to actually sit down, talk out our differences, and maybe, just maybe, actually listen to someone who holds another viewpoint to our own.
Here's hoping we can do that before it's too late...
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Well said. Do you sometimes wonder if this is what the climate felt like just before the Civil War?
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