How as a Country are we going to EVER come together?

[regnaD kciN]

9. Sad to say, I agree. And I'm not even sure if that will help.

The problem I see, to be frank, is that we aren't simply divided into "conservatives" and "liberals." That's the status-quo virtually everywhere in the world. It's that I see us broken into even smaller chunks on the left. (I don't keep much connection with the right, but I wouldn't be surprised to find similar fracture lines eventually develop over there) There's the centrist liberals, the economic progressives, identity-politics devotees for every possible group, anarchists...and, the fact is, most people in each group hate at least some of the others every bit as much as they hate those on the other side of the spectrum.

I've been saying for some time that one of the big issues we've been going through for years now is the sense that all of our problems are insoluble, or at the very least that no answers seem clear. When no solutions are possible, all that's left in politics is figuring out who (in "the other&quot is to blame, and devoting one's political aspirations to gaining revenge on them. That way lies madness.