At this point, Americans who are politically inclined seem to be polarized to an almost unprecedented degree. You would almost think that they come from entirely different worlds with practically no shared experiences, values, or sense of ‘oneness’. To attribute this solely to Trump, the Tea Party, Occupy, or any such group would be a shallow explanation. There is something much deeper here and the more important question is how we can possibly overcome it.
Around 40-50 years ago an American political party realized that the best way for them to achieve electoral success was by dividing Americans up by race and creating different disparate minority groups. They embraced hyphenated-Americanism and encouraged the formation of smaller racially focused interest groups and social functions. 40 years later and we have the modern Democratic Party, who thrives off of people who are deathly afraid of the white man and cling to identity politics.
There you have it!
This is why we can't have nice things. Candidates like Trump make the racist excrement of American society unashamed of speaking out when ideally, they should be too ashamed to even show their faces in public.
I just hope that when Der Furher Trump is finally in a position to permanently dismantle democracy -and all of the rights and liberties that go with it - that you will recognize the fact that you enabled a monstrous maniac and then repent. Of course, by then, it will be far too late...
