I can't remember a point in my lifetime were this country was more divided

[once-ler]

@coolidge

What was it that democrats passed when they had control. Oh that’s right obamacare. Socialism lite programs.

Not like the Dubya passed pro-capitalism like no child left behind and a prescription drug benefit. President Trump says his health plan will cover everyone for almost no money. Gotta love that capitalism.

[once-ler]

I’ve read dumber ■■■■ on twitter today.

[zantax]

@mbus

@zantax

@mbus

@zantax

@mbus

I understand your point. We’re young. My wife tells me in her apartment building growing up, in India, there were 20 different varieties of religions, ethnicities, cultures and languages. No problems except when politicians used difference as a wedge. Alienation and division work.

No problems, in India, ok lol

Haha is right. Not speaking in absolute terms. Clearly India is beset with grave perennial problems; economic, corruption, the place of women, the caste system. I am specially speaking of the ability of people of different colors, religions and cultures to live together harmoniously. No argument from the on the other stuff.

No ethnic and religious strife in India?

I don’t believe I said that. My assertion is that, for the most part, the most diverse country on earth (100+ languages and a dozen+ religions) has learned to live together better than some more simple societies.

Too bad it’s totally not true.

[mbus]

@zantax

@mbus

@zantax

@mbus

@zantax

@mbus

I understand your point. We’re young. My wife tells me in her apartment building growing up, in India, there were 20 different varieties of religions, ethnicities, cultures and languages. No problems except when politicians used difference as a wedge. Alienation and division work.

No problems, in India, ok lol

Haha is right. Not speaking in absolute terms. Clearly India is beset with grave perennial problems; economic, corruption, the place of women, the caste system. I am specially speaking of the ability of people of different colors, religions and cultures to live together harmoniously. No argument from the on the other stuff.

No ethnic and religious strife in India?

I don’t believe I said that. My assertion is that, for the most part, the most diverse country on earth (100+ languages and a dozen+ religions) has learned to live together better than some more simple societies.

Too bad it’s totally not true.

Well I guess that’s that then.

[Samm]

@amadeus

@WuWei

Can’t stop the revolution!

“Look what’s happening out in the streets. Got a revolution. Got to revolution.”
– Jefferson Airplane

Look at what happened to Jefferson Airplane.

[Samm]

@NJBob

I think the difference today is that people are more willing to express their views.

The diversity of opinion has always been there.

Actually, the intolerant, sometimes violent, divisiveness going on now is making a very significant portion of Americans … particularly on the right … withhold their opinions, for fear of retribution. But they vote …

[Samm]

@PurpnGold

@Ben_Natuf

the left is so invested in identity politics that they actually believe dividing Americans into ever smaller groups to pander to is “bringing them together”.

All politics is identity politics

You are right. The left tends to identify by minority status while the right tends to identify by accomplishment, character, and principles.

[Samm]

I love irony.

[Samm]

@RoyalBlue

Then it’s a comprehension issue.

Well, you got that right.

[Samm]

@once-ler

Great stuff.

Constitutional Convention – Benjamin Franklin Historical Society

The whole speech is great but he closes with this

On the whole, Sir, I can not help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.-

I agree @Scratch . I wish Americans could compromise with other Americans.

The problem is, to the left, compromise means agreeing with them. Beginning with the political correct movement right through to the cancel culture, the left has insisted that their way is the only way.

[NJBob]

@Samm

@NJBob

I think the difference today is that people are more willing to express their views.

The diversity of opinion has always been there.

Actually, the intolerant, sometimes violent, divisiveness going on now is making a very significant portion of Americans … particularly on the right … withhold their opinions, for fear of retribution. But they vote …

I think that goes both ways.

I work with a lot of very conservative people and I make it a point to not discuss politics.

And I vote.

[biggestal99]

@conan

Alright…then get Nancy to compromise on COVID relief.

She’s already compromised down to 2,200,000,000,000 how much more would you like.

The cities/states need money.

Allan

[PurpnGold]

@Samm

You are right. The left tends to identify by minority status while the right tends to identify by accomplishment, character, and principles.

The right doesn’t try to identify with race? Religion? Patriotism?

[gooddad409]

@Hexenbiest

According to the Atlantic republicans need to vote for Biden if they don’t want to see more cities to burn.

“For this reason, strictly law-and-order Republicans who have responded in dismay to scenes of rioting and looting have an interest in Biden winning—even if they could never bring themselves to vote for him.”

Or in layman terms

Sounds like extortion. Similar to the mob demanding protection money from business owners.

I’m not big on bowing to extortion myself.

[Bill.in.PA]

Clearly 1968 predates your life. The current strife is mainly manufactured by social media and fake news, but back in the 1960s there was no need to manufacture strife.

In the 1960s, there were real white supremacists and segregationists; many were Democrat committee chairs in congress. President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King were all assassinated, and large parts of US cities burned. Young men from working class families were shipped overseas to fight and die in Vietnam, while the sons of the elites got college deferments to participate in protests and try out the latest drugs. Nuclear war was just minutes away on several occasions.

We are massively better off now, but you would never know it judging by the fake news.

[amadeus]

@Samm

@amadeus

@WuWei

Can’t stop the revolution!

“Look what’s happening out in the streets. Got a revolution. Got to revolution.”
– Jefferson Airplane

Look at what happened to Jefferson Airplane.

Yeah. They became the Starship. Bummer.

[RoyalBlue]

So do I.

[RoyalBlue]

Indeed, I do.

[Eagle-Keeper]

@Ben_Natuf

I’m white, my wife is black. we almost never discuss race. neither one of us give a ■■■■ about it. its just not a subject of any importance to us. I don’t see color, neither does she. We see people.

I grew up in an inner city. Most of my friends growing up were black and Hispanic. We NEVER talked about race and we got along just fine. As far as I’m concerned the message of modern liberalism is that people are defined by the color of their skin and that’s the most important thing about a person. That’s why they insist that we all need to have conversations about race.

[Eagle-Keeper]

@PurpnGold

@Ben_Natuf

I’m white, my wife is black. we almost never discuss race.

Interesting

@Ben_Natuf

I don’t see color, neither does she.

Oh this again

The color of your skin doesn’t define who you are.