How can this 'unprecedented' environment be changed?
There's a thread in GD2016 using the word 'unprecedented' and that word feeds my insomnia. We can use the word 'unprecedented' almost every day of this disturbing campaign.
What keeps me up at night, is what Trump has unleashed, and how this potentially is altering civilized society for the foreseeable future. I understand it was brewing, away from my eye, but the deterioration the Republicans have increasingly allowed to be mainstream is horrific.
It's hard to see how Hillary will be able to govern. The ugliness will continue ... how will it be tamped down? How as a society will this be addressed?
Someone was saying the other day that it used to be the Republicans had a 40% lock, the Democrats 40%, and both sides were reaching for the remaining 20%. Then it became the lock was more 45/45 and that continues narrowing ... so everyone is becoming more entrenched, not speaking to the other side, etc. Gone are the days of a Mondale-like map defeat. By all sanity, Hillary should take 50 states.
Long ago, in conversations with conservatives, I would preface with the 'both sides do it' statement because even if I couldn't quite see it, I knew I was partisan enough that perhaps my lens was cloudy. That changed some time ago, before the Tea Party rise. We =don't= do what they do, so mostly I avoid conversations with conservatives to keep my blood pressure in check. So I rhetorically wonder: am I part of the global problem that we're increasingly unable to have reasoned, rational differences of opinion and discourse? Should I not shut down with conservatives? How many old-style conservatives are left to even talk to?
How the f'ety-f will this change?
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