First of all, I'd like to say 'fuck you' to Tumblr for taking away the ability to easily respond to replies publicly. Stifling. Way to go. What, are you liberals?

@hailether said about THIS:

“Agreed. Where along the line did people become so polarized that they can’t tolerate any sensory input of opinions that don’t sufficiently reflect theirs? Do you see anything that this cultural shift hinged upon?”
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All I got to go on, man, is time. It wasn’t like this in the 90s, the decade I became truly politically aware. Republicans and Democrats were battling each other then, too, like always, but it seemed more civil.

Hate, it seems to me, has crept in. Republicans and Democrats didn’t especially like each other in the 90s, but they didn’t HATE each other.

It all seemed to change after 911. I would pin a bunch of it on the left’s assumption that they are absolutely right on every issue, that their political positions and ideas are not only correct, but morally correct. That PC shit feels like religion to me, not politics.

The right isn’t without blame. They egg the left on. The sarcasm on the right is endless. They are bullied with the ‘racist’ label and many of them embrace it as a matter of 'fuck you’, even though they aren’t really racist. An older woman once counselled me: if you constantly accuse your woman of cheating, she will. They start saying racist shit just to bug the delicate, easily offended left.

Then you got the starkness of the main stream media’s bias toward the left. I’m not even talking about 'news’ outlets. Who is the butt of 99.9% of jokes on late night tv? Yeah.

People who are right-leaning aren’t dumb, even though they feel like they are being told that constantly by the news and tv shows and movies and everything really.

At the same time, you have a Democratic Party that abandoned the the working class and its union members for identity politics bullshit.

It was a great convergence. Looking back on it, I don’t see how Trump could’ve lost. I mean, think about it.