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Last week I posted a title of a group and a link to the site. Suggesting they were trying to get us (Americans) back together. I suggested you all check it out. I got maybe 10-11 replies. One was positive the rest were negative. My post was alerted and taken down as being right wing talking points or something like that. I did reply to the take down but did not disagree with the decision. However I did go to a zoom meeting and it sort of agreed with what i heard here. Now, I received an email with a link to some podcasts. The podcasts are presented by a young lady from the left with someone from the right joining her in the last post. The first podcast is "How did Lincoln do it". the second is "How do you bridge a legacy of pain". The third is titled "How can you talk politics in a divided family".
I personally think they may be some potential here but am not selling anything. If you want to check out the podcasts, send me a pm and I will provide you with the link.
If this is still offensive I will remove it. Just request removal and it will be deleted. Thank you.
H2O Man
(73,637 posts)We can't all get along -- in the current context, there are many who do not want to get along with their opposition. And that is their decision to make. But this does not take away from those who do recognize the ultimate damage -- yet to come -- that will take place if the divisions between people continues at the current pace. Many of us have family members, neighbors, co-workers, old friends and others we used to be able to talk to that we no longer do.
Silent Type
(3,005 posts)leftstreet
(36,117 posts)Are people screaming and yelling and assaulting each other in your local grocery store? In your workplace? At your local hardware store?
This "divided Americans" crap is a media creation
GuppyGal
(1,748 posts)TwilightZone
(25,499 posts)Your assertion that there isn't a divided America has no basis in reality. Polarization isn't about people screaming at each other in a hardware store. It's about the vast chasm that has developed ideologically between the right and the left over the past 40 years, culminating in half of the voting public voting for a conman and Trump supporters storming the Capitol. Did you miss January 6th?
If you really think we're all one big happy America, you might consider doing some research. Here are some places to start:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/08/house-polarization-partisanship/
https://www.brown.edu/news/2020-01-21/polarization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_polarization_in_the_United_States
leftstreet
(36,117 posts)If you're saying 1/4 or less of the eligible voting population elects politicians, that would be correct. (Far, far fewer in midterm elections)
No one knows what half the country even thinks
czarjak
(11,301 posts)stuck in the middle
(821 posts)...correctly, but I thought I once heard that some 60% of the insurrectionists busted on Jan 6 didn't bother to vote in the very election that they were trying to overturn.
leftstreet
(36,117 posts)Trump fashioned himself as some kind of anti-establishment leader "shaking up the system" or whatever crap he said
While most of the J6ers came across as libertarian to me, they were just a tiny handful of Americans and not representative of much
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)There were incidences of respect and civility between North and South even during and after battles during the Civil War. That doesn't change the fact they were still trying to kill each other.
DemocraticPatriot
(4,442 posts)and so does everyone else, it seems--- at least, in my neighborhood...
GuppyGal
(1,748 posts)wonderful idea. He and I do just that we'll talk about it and granted we rarely agree but we are able to talk about things and we even make jokes. There was no way you were pushing right wing talking points but if you are accused and 'found guilty' that's a wrap, but I remember the post and I'm with you on this !!
WarGamer
(12,488 posts)Including 14% of Democrats...
And no, I don't have the solution.