In my meager 45 years years of life, I can not remember a time when our county was so politically polarized on events throughout the county. Trump vs Clinton, BLM vs Police, Transgender RR's, Gay Marriage, immigration, and many many more issues. My question is how can the country bounce back from this. How are we supposed to heal from this. Maybe I'm being overdramatic, but just look at the forum. Minor D&D disagreements/dislikes have become big issues. People all over are digging in their heels and seems like they are covering their ears and screaming at the top of their lungs at each other. I for one hope that the election will start the healing process, but I have a bad feeling that there is going to be another four year of widening division between political ideals. Sad times to be living in.
I hope that holds true, but I'm talking in every day life, there is a lot of division. Granted, the media and the internet magnify it many times, but I can not recall the division ever being this bad.
The last thing that the media or the politicians want is for the country to come together or "heal". Peace and happiness don't sell clicks so the media will drag out even the smallest of conflicts to the extreme. On the political side, if the people were actually together or focused on real change and improvement instead of which candidate sucks worse or what bathroom somebody pees in we might actually be able to affect policy... that isn't going to work for them.
That's a sad truth. I might be wrong, but it sure seems like we as a society have lost the art of compromise. We have become an all or nothing society.
Every generation gets pushback from it's older counterpart. The baby boomers got pushback from the greatest generation too.
Time heals. It also kills off angry, bitter old white people who watch Fox News and want to Make America Great Again.
Those people work and pay taxes... they will be missed by the society that expects free stuff from the benevolent government.
That is my 100% honest and legitimate answer to your OP. I don't see 'healing' happening. I see time eroding a group of very ignorant and belligerent people away. That's all that will happen.
Yeah... most of the vitriol is coming from one particular party and the candidate they nominated. Donald Trump literally does nothing except peddle hatred and fear and it has been reflected in this election. Lets hope that he is the exception and not the new norm.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/12760/should-rhetorical-questions-end-with-a-period Thanks for the assist. It's all good though. It was meant as a rhetorical question.
