What division? Nobody I know, in person, goes to protests or stops talking to each other because of how they vote. I literally mean nobody. No division. The most extreme is that some people I know cry when an election doesn’t go their way and then their friends make fun of them.
Division is a perception created by keyboard warriors and news that needs something to report on and the rest of us find crazy people entertaining. If you turn the news off and step away from social media the artificial insanity goes away.
I do understand some major metros have witnessed massive protests this year with large scale property destruction. From the outside looking in it looks like communities with a lack of diversity and severe economic stratification. I say that because I live in a major metro that experienced none of that insanity and this major city is either or about to be the most diverse major US city and is very healthy economically.
Wow. This is an unbelievable sentiment by a normal, plugged in American citizen. I'm absolutely positive that the vast majority of American's have had massively strained relationships due to politics in the past 5 years, issues that weren't there before.
That sounds like a baseless assumption. On what data do you come to that conclusion? I heard people express the same nonsense during the Bush years and it was just as absurd then. If anything it’s crazy people cutting themselves off.
I mean there's countless anecdotes, which is not good data, but its something. Many, many people (many people are saying..) have noted how crazily divided we have been in the past 5 years. And my above comment got a bunch of upvotes in the last hour so there's more anecdotal evidence I guess.
If it’s on social media then it has to be true. Logical fallacies don’t increase in validity merely because an echo chamber grows or else everything mentioned in r/thedonald could never be a lie.
A small collection of keyboard warriors see division because they want to. Without something to ground their baseless opinions they becomes just as absurd as they appear outside their echo chamber.
Coincidentally my same opinion is also well upvoted in a different thread. That doesn’t make it more of anything.
> Nobody I know, in person, goes to protests or stops talking to each other because of how they vote.
Good for you. But some of us have friends who will literally die if the ACA is repealed, so, yes, I have cut people out out of my life for supporting the Republicans.
Self-inflicted? No. The cutoff at that point is merely formalizing the destruction of social niceties already achieved by supporting people who literally want to kill one of my friends.
Division is a perception created by keyboard warriors and news that needs something to report on and the rest of us find crazy people entertaining. If you turn the news off and step away from social media the artificial insanity goes away.
I do understand some major metros have witnessed massive protests this year with large scale property destruction. From the outside looking in it looks like communities with a lack of diversity and severe economic stratification. I say that because I live in a major metro that experienced none of that insanity and this major city is either or about to be the most diverse major US city and is very healthy economically.