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Lots of contributing factors to blame--Just a few:

 

--The still horrendous economic conditions with 90+ million Americans out of work.

 

How many of the 90+ million are...

 

 

...over 65?

...in high school or college?

 

Rhetorical questions. Answer - nearly 60 million among the two groups.

How many of the 90+ million are...

 

 

...over 65?

...in high school or college?

 

Rhetorical questions. Answer - nearly 60 million among the two groups.

 

Thanks for that stat, as I really didn't know. While I was researching the government numbers to respond, they said the 5.1% unemployment rate meant 7.9 million were out of work. Assuming your 60 million young & old is correct (although you could argue that many HS & college age kids, as well as many seniors are very employable?)--Why aren't they counting the other 22 million or the countless "underemployed" when discussing the overall health of the economy??

Because people don't listen unless they hear what they want to hear. That's why our country is divided.

Because people don't listen unless they hear what they want to hear. That's why our country is divided.

 

Or a large majority on both sides simply don't listen, or take the time to explore the truth??

"A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly." John 10:10

 

We need to understand who the real enemy is...it is not each other.

If everyone would live by the Golden Rule we would all get along and be better off.

If everyone would live by the Golden Rule we would all get along and be better off.

 

Ol' Matt and Rodney King. Two peas in a pod.

Bengals and Steelers hate each other, but together they hate the Ravens

Auburn hates Alabama, but when the tornado hit Tuscaloosa the people from Auburn were some of the first that came to help.

 

Politics are the sports of this century, but without either side finding or looking for common ground. We can argue about sports all day, then after the game (win or lose) put our arms around each others shoulders and go eat wings together.

 

The problem with politics and society is that both sides are too dumb or think headed to work from common ground...instead if an idea has an ® or (D) next to everyone makes up their mind based on that alone not the content of the idea. Look how many times people have been interviewed and given a set of ideas and they blindly agree or disagree based on who they think they are from.

 

I voted for Clinton once, as a kid I was for Carter over Ford. When President Obama won the election 7 years ago I said on this very site that while I didn't vote for him, that I hoped that I wanted to vote for him in 4 years.

 

When people say they will never vote for a Democrat or a Republican that bothers me more than just about anything. But too many people are too lazy to decide for themselves, they just follow along with the rest of their herd.

This new found divisiveness is by design and is working just as planned. Divide and conquer is much easier than conquer and divide.

It began just after the first PERIOD

This new found divisiveness is by design and is working just as planned. Divide and conquer is much easier than conquer and divide.

A lot of truth in this. Personally I do not think America is "divided" as people seem to believe. We all have individuality which helps form and shapes our opinions. By in large, most folks are good people. But when you have this individuality and with how the system is put together pigeonholing us into supporting Team A or Team B, divisiveness arises. Those in power must sit around and laugh at the puppet show.

When no one is willing to compromise, the divide continues to grow.

 

That divide occurred one other time in our history and that stupid thing happened.

No one seems to remember "Tilden or Blood!"

 

Or, since Henry Clay was brought up in another post, the compromise of 1824.

The idea that the United States was once a happy, jolly place where everyone got along is a myth. Heck, we had the Whiskey Rebellion less than a decade after Yorktown.

 

We've always been politically divided as most societies are. It's not going to stop.

 

What we can do is try to have enough respect for each other and for a few fundamental principles for how this country should work to stop us from doing anything profoundly stupid.

The idea that the United States was once a happy, jolly place where everyone got along is a myth. Heck, we had the Whiskey Rebellion less than a decade after Yorktown.

 

We've always been politically divided as most societies are. It's not going to stop.

 

What we can do is try to have enough respect for each other and for a few fundamental principles for how this country should work to stop us from doing anything profoundly stupid.

 

Anyone who reads period publications from our history, and diaries of those who lived in them, will find that we haven't changed all that much, especially in our inability to be civil to one-another.