[nolidad]

To add to my previous post:

We have to remember that these are much different times we are living in. America is being polarized in ways never experienced before. It is not a class or wealth or race polarization but a philosophical one-- liberal v conservative. Moderates are a slowly dying breed because both sides are requiring a choosing of sides by de fault.

We just had another college campus shooting in Ohio. With news travelling as fast as it does, people who are unstable for whatever reason will be able to see and copy cat faster than ever now.

[slap_j]

Originally Posted by nolidad

America is being polarized in ways never experienced before.

I thought the civil war was a bit more polarizing, personally.

[RubberChipmunk]

Originally Posted by nolidad

To add to my previous post:

We have to remember that these are much different times we are living in. America is being polarized in ways never experienced before. It is not a class or wealth or race polarization but a philosophical one-- liberal v conservative. Moderates are a slowly dying breed because both sides are requiring a choosing of sides by de fault.

We just had another college campus shooting in Ohio. With news travelling as fast as it does, people who are unstable for whatever reason will be able to see and copy cat faster than ever now.

There's a growing number of americans who are fed up with both of our main political parties. I don't think its a dying breed.

[nolidad]

Originally Posted by slap_j

I thought the civil war was a bit more polarizing, personally.

yeah the civil war was definitely a polarizing event along the lines of slavery and seccesion, but today the philosophical divide between people is larger and more diverse than at any other time in our history. By this I mean it encompasses more ideas and actions and attributes than before. The revolution divided the nation along British v freedom lines and the civil war as listed above. Today we are a nation tearing itself over entitlement v. responisbility, abortion, class, wealth, ideology et. al. There has always been differences but an underlying sense of unity (we may disagree but we're all Americans etc.) But today that is no longer the case.

[JerryLove]

Originally Posted by nolidad

yeah the civil war was definitely a polarizing event along the lines of slavery and seccesion, but today the philosophical divide between people is larger and more diverse than at any other time in our history. By this I mean it encompasses more ideas and actions and attributes than before. The revolution divided the nation along British v freedom lines and the civil war as listed above. Today we are a nation tearing itself over entitlement v. responisbility, abortion, class, wealth, ideology et. al. There has always been differences but an underlying sense of unity (we may disagree but we're all Americans etc.) But today that is no longer the case.

Actually, the issues in the civil war were property rights and states rights more than some philosophical divide over slavery.

It's pretty short-sighted to think our issues are bigger than prohibition, women's sufferage, organized labor, the creation of social services, etc.