We are at war. You can pretend we can be one country again, but we can't.

[Tigress DEM]

52. It's been a long struggle and some people are fully tired of being nice.

Doesn't mean we won't find a way to remain civil, but there is a lot going on with the leaders of the rethugs and what the MSM is putting out that creates a large group of people who vote against their own interest, disbelieve facts and operate on fear. Not to the high degree that the leadership wants, but enough to create a constant friction down in the political trenches.

I wish the vast majority of Americans were intelligent enough to understand that if you have a fact in one hand and a lie in the other, that mashing them up together does NOT get you the truth. The extreme beliefs don't represent the beliefs or values of the average American, but some folks can be scared into stupid stuff when they believe outrageous lies.

AND as election fraud has been proven over and over again and since voter suppression is alive and doing fine in many places, they don't NEED an actual majority to "win" an election. They just have to not get caught at it, persecuted for it until the votes are recorded.

I don't want a war. I'm not here to hate anyone, but if the OP is overstating the problem, you are on the opposite end minimizing it. I really WISH you were right, but I've seen a lot of otherwise intelligent people spout a lot of BS. Used to be only FAUX News watchers were decreasing their intelligence. Now CNN is putting up phony headlines.

I constantly feel like there is just too much to do too many fires to put out to be really effective anywhere. Then I just pick something and get to work, hoping it helps.

Tig