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re: Is Trump causing the division in this country?
Posted on 12/7/16 at 11:06 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Posted on 12/7/16 at 11:06 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Sebastian Maniscalco
I'm going to look it up now.
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Posted on 12/7/16 at 11:08 pm to KyleOrtonsMustache
Posted on 12/7/16 at 11:10 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Posted on 12/7/16 at 11:11 pm to jcolding41
It's the media.. Once a very divisive article gets written by the media, it is then shared thousands of times on social media as fact.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 11:26 pm to jcolding41
I think he perpetuated the divisiveness of the country, pandered to the lowest common denominator and rode that shite to the White House. He also managed to make people somehow start to believe that sexual assault is no big deal.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 11:36 pm to jcolding41
Nope.
It was started by Obama when he took office.
It was started by Obama when he took office.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 11:41 pm to jcolding41
Birdman says put some respek on the name.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 2:49 am to jcolding41
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Remember the anger and fear in '08 and '12?
Sure don't. Because it didn't happen. Probably because those that didn't vote Obama were adults. Those that didn't vote Trump are not adults.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 6:44 am to jcolding41
Nope....the shite was broke when he got there
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Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:03 am to MoarKilometers
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The worst part is neither side of snowflake realizes they're the exact same a-hole they claim to hate.
How many protests and riots broke out when the (R) candidate lost in 2008 and 2012?
Posted on 12/8/16 at 7:47 pm to jcolding41
The country has been divided since 2006, but fear of reprisal from the news media, social media, employers, and educators kept conservatives quiet in public.
The media has spent a decade telling people that every moderate Republican was some wacko fringe lunitic Klansman. They went so overboard, that when Trump came along, most people were no longer buying their hyperbole, but democrats continue to believe the hype. Now, they're off the deep end because they cannot fathom how someone the media described as so straight up evil could win. They're screaming and crying where everyone can hear. The conservatives are finally sleaking up because if someone as un-PC as Trump can become president, then we have nothing to truly be afraid of. Conservatives are finally not hiding any more.
ETA: we have been divided forever, but we temporarily came together after 9/11. We have a tendency to unite against a common enemy as log as there is one to be found. When there's none, we consume each other like starved dogs.
Trump is a symptom of people being told that they're evil just for existing. They're tired of being told that their every action, thought, and behavior is racist, offensive, misogynist, xenophobic, perpetuating the patriarchy, intolerant, homophobic, bigoted, ect. Calling someone names doesn't make them any less of whatever you call them. All it does is steels their resolve. Once conservatives realized that the left didn't want a conversation, but a lecture. That they were only really tolerant of their own opinions and no one else's, they decided to find the loudest, most bombastic, most un-PC candidate they could find and prop him up as the biggest middle-finger to the status quo democracy has ever seen. And it worked.
The media has spent a decade telling people that every moderate Republican was some wacko fringe lunitic Klansman. They went so overboard, that when Trump came along, most people were no longer buying their hyperbole, but democrats continue to believe the hype. Now, they're off the deep end because they cannot fathom how someone the media described as so straight up evil could win. They're screaming and crying where everyone can hear. The conservatives are finally sleaking up because if someone as un-PC as Trump can become president, then we have nothing to truly be afraid of. Conservatives are finally not hiding any more.
ETA: we have been divided forever, but we temporarily came together after 9/11. We have a tendency to unite against a common enemy as log as there is one to be found. When there's none, we consume each other like starved dogs.
Trump is a symptom of people being told that they're evil just for existing. They're tired of being told that their every action, thought, and behavior is racist, offensive, misogynist, xenophobic, perpetuating the patriarchy, intolerant, homophobic, bigoted, ect. Calling someone names doesn't make them any less of whatever you call them. All it does is steels their resolve. Once conservatives realized that the left didn't want a conversation, but a lecture. That they were only really tolerant of their own opinions and no one else's, they decided to find the loudest, most bombastic, most un-PC candidate they could find and prop him up as the biggest middle-finger to the status quo democracy has ever seen. And it worked.
This post was edited on 12/8/16 at 8:36 pm
Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:19 pm to jcolding41
Trump isn't dividing the country, political correctness and the gradual weakening of this country is causing it.
Trump is going to be a godsend to pull us out of the spiral we have been in as a country.
Trump is going to be a godsend to pull us out of the spiral we have been in as a country.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:29 pm to jcolding41
Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:43 pm to jcolding41
From a completely objective stance, I see September 11, 2001 as the trigger that fractured our country. Losing the Vietnam War set the U.S. on a path of change but 9/11 brought the shocking knowledge that we aren't invincible onto our very shores.
We seemed to quickly split into two groups, one saying that we needed to be peacemakers and the other that the only answer was to take the battle to the countries of our new main enemies, the Muslims. We have tilted right, then left and then right again since that awful strike at the heart of our republic.
The worst result of our war with Islam is that we have come to regard other Americans as enemies. Not just Muslim Americans, but "liberals" and "wingnuts." Culturally, we are having a civil war.
In this just-completed election campaign, not-so-subtle threats of physical violence were introduced for the first time. How close are we to actual battles between opposing groups of Americans?
We seemed to quickly split into two groups, one saying that we needed to be peacemakers and the other that the only answer was to take the battle to the countries of our new main enemies, the Muslims. We have tilted right, then left and then right again since that awful strike at the heart of our republic.
The worst result of our war with Islam is that we have come to regard other Americans as enemies. Not just Muslim Americans, but "liberals" and "wingnuts." Culturally, we are having a civil war.
In this just-completed election campaign, not-so-subtle threats of physical violence were introduced for the first time. How close are we to actual battles between opposing groups of Americans?
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:51 am to TbirdSpur2010
The political system is causing division in this country. If they keep us fighting amongst ourselves then we're not keeping an eye on them robbing us blind.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:38 am to jcolding41
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IS Trump causing the division in this country?
nope, it's the minority bitching and moaning because they didnt get their participation trophy
Posted on 12/9/16 at 10:27 am to boogiewoogie1978
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The political system is causing division in this country. If they keep us fighting amongst ourselves then we're not keeping an eye on them robbing us blind.
Some real truth to that, tbh.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 10:38 am to jcolding41
Technology. It has caused people to become way too invested in other people's lives. People need to be more selfish and stop worrying so damn much about what other people are doing. When individuals can't succeed, they turn and base their emotions on the successes and failures of others.
This post was edited on 12/9/16 at 10:40 am
Posted on 12/9/16 at 10:47 am to LSU Delts
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It was started by Obama when he took office.
How
Posted on 12/9/16 at 4:40 pm to BobLeeDagger
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Technology. It has caused people to become way too invested in other people's lives. People need to be more selfish and stop worrying so damn much about what other people are doing. When individuals can't succeed, they turn and base their emotions on the successes and failures of others.
That's an astute observation.
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