It seems like the current political climate causes tension between friends and family. It's always been like that. Families have always been a mixture of Democrats and Republicans and sometimes people are married to a person of the opposite party. But it seems like social media makes it worse. People re-post writings of their favorite commentator and it is always more extreme than if they posted their own thoughts or were talking to people face to face. And as people post and share, the search engines feed associated posts that keep getting a little more extreme as time goes on.
It is my belief that everday people who have opposing political views have more in common with each other than with the political commentators that they listen to. Average everday people are the only ones that have a vested interest in pulling the country together. The politicians and media of both parties make their living by keeping the country divided.
A moderate, mellow politician like John Kasich doesn't have a chance as the parties and media try to trip the moderates up early, so they have the most divisive candidates facing each other at the end.
The only chance we have is if the people of all types, stick together and foil the media and parties' plan to keep us separated. Someday Trump supporters and immigrants will realize they have more power together than separately. As Ben Franklin said," Either we all hang together or we all hang separately."
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