Ideology needs fought with a different tactic.
I think the rift brought on by Trump is one, not of party, but of ideology. It's no longer the Liberals (for the people) vs. conservatives (for big money). Even moderate conservatives will tell you that Trump is not a representative of conservative values. He's a maverick who chose to run on the GOP ticket. And, he specifically wants to widen the rift, and cause all of us to fall. Education does play into that ideology gap, because those who are educated are more tolerant of differences in culture, as in "live and let live". Through education, the more you are exposed to, the more you understand others and their lives. Educated people are often also more traveled.
When my hometown lost its "lifestyle" (due to the oil crash in the 80's), all of us natives scattered, to find better jobs -- and the educated children from my town were not bringing that back home by 1990. They went away to college, and then didn't bring back their knowledge to the small town. Why would they? There were no good jobs there anymore. (Remember who was in office in the 1980's?)
I left for Colorado, land of opportunity. But when I came back to my hometown in Kansas in the late 90's, OMG ... it was a whole different place. The culture I had grown up with: one of always do better, always learn more, always give back -- had been over-run by lower educated, nearly backwards-thinking cretins. Where there had been the successful and bright were now displaced by the "country-fide", prejudiced hicks! They say, "you can never go home".... that was so true!
If we all, as Americans, do not come together to fight this disease that is trying to split us (to fail), the toxic ooze they emit is going to seep into the cracks between us, and they'll glory in the fact that they could do it! Trump is already using Putin's playbook. We have to (first) recognize and acknowledge this for what it is -- and then as the wiser, we have the tools to oust it from our country.
No matter the GOP blusters around, and says Democrats didn't connect with people. Poo-Paw, we can't just hash it over, and wring our hands. Trumpism is trying to sway all our thinking. Democrats and Conservatives together are going to need to tackle this Trumpism with a new set of rules. Past banter back-and-forth won't be what wins. Trump seized on the internal unrest brought on by Obama-haters (black President, bigot group) and saw a way to widen it. Currently, there is (maybe) 1/3 of the country in this hater mode. Bi-partisan efforts need to develop plans to stop it before the percentage grows. There is no time to sit around and discuss this issue.
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