Opinion: Why political polarization has gone wild in America

[yubba]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I don't think politics in Washington are any more polarized than they've ever been. Hamilton and Jefferson. Adams and Jefferson (who had been friends and would be again). Lincoln and anybody. It's no worse now than it ever was. We just read about it more, and thanks to television and the internet people get involved more.

Well there isn't any in Washington that can measure up to the ones mentioned above, at least the fore mentioned cared about the rights and freedoms of the American people and they DIDN'T compromise or spend us into peril.

[ZeeWolf]

I believe the awakening of Americans has created
a much more informed base. A base that before
this time was much easier for the "main stream"
media to get away with their lies.
One area in particular is the push to adapted
international laws that would most Americans
would never vote for.
And the second area here is connected to the
first, and that is as Americans become more
informed they see that both political parties
are guilty of ram-rodding things through that
the majority of Americans would never vote
for. America sees with there own eyes what
the agenda has now been for years. Whether
it's Guns, Free Speech, Private Property etc.
these rights have been under assault by a
determined non-American force and finally
we see some real push back. Push back
that has only begun. THANK GOD!

It to easy to sit back and be 'informed' by media now days.
We watch the Weather, the latest News, Stock Prices, etc, on and on.
Weather is mostly wrong, the news is canted, Stocks are whacked.
And yet We assume 'all is good'.

It's not good.
Nor will it be good anytime soon!

If you buy what is sold on TV in the U.S.A. today?
You'll be a casualty very shortly in one way or another.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by yubba

Well there isn't any in Washington that can measure up to the ones mentioned above, at least the fore mentioned cared about the rights and freedoms of the American people and they DIDN'T compromise or spend us into peril.

The thread isn't about what you think of them, or about it's about polarization. My point was that there was plenty of hostility and antagonism back then, and what we're seeing today is nothing new.

You and I may praise those guys, but others in their own time hated them, and the political fighting then was no different than it is now.