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Originally Posted by kane
I saw an article recently that stated 20 years ago about 14% of people with opposing political view were evil. Today that number is up to 40%. I believe our leadership in general has fostered this Us vs. Them mentality and it has bled down to the general population. Right now our leadership doesn't seem to have any interest whatsoever in trying to fix this and bring the nation together. Instead they play into it. Until things change at the top (on both sides) the odds are it is only going to get worse.
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Yes, that is a fact. The gulf has been widening for over 10 years now.
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has been speaking about this for a very long time (TED etc)
US Politics has largely turned into a bad episode of Jersey Shore where the new success is failing upwards. And you're right. We need a President that inspires. The motivates. That unites. The fosters hope. That has a vision for the future that everyone can buy into. And that can communicate without calling 1/2 the voting public who they are also supposed to represent, cunts (by virtue of party affiliation) like both Obama did and Trump does.