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I'm not just talking about that which exists between the left and right. I am also talking about between righties and between lefties.
Everybody's pissed off at everybody else.
The righties, very broadly speaking, are split between the crazies and the intelligentsia.
The left, broadly speaking, is split between blind cheerleading supporters (mirror images of bushbots) and those who decry everything Obama as centrist/DLC/triangualting.
And then, all groups of lefties are against all groups of righties. And vice versa.
Lest we think this is somehow localized or reflective of only those at the fringe, we need to think again. I can cite polls that say one thing (Obama has very high support among Democrats, for example), while my own anecdotal experiences show something else. The lefties I know are much more evenly split in their support. While no one on the left that I know thinks of him in terms similar to that of the Joe Wilsons of the world, there is more than a good bit of overt disappointment in the direction in which they see us being led. Meanwhile, his supporters remain fiercely supportive, almost to the point of sticking their fingers in their ears and making baby sounds to drown out the discussion. Since I know these people, I know what they wanted and hoped for before the election. But now they're seemingly happy to just have him there, no matter what he does. The "we won" syndrome.
Similarly, the righties I know (I live in a decidedly purple area of a blue state) are split, too. Around here it seems to be those who remain enamored of Caribou Barbie (and therefore, all the other true crazies associated with her and her cadre of morons) versus those who have always, or have come to, think of her as a twit. Oddly, however, they never say this to each other. Lockstepitude seems to be genetic with them. I hear their admissions of disenchantment with "those people" only when "those people" are not in the room. Unlike lefties, righties don't seem disposed to confront their own when they disagree with them. I suppose that comes from at least one aspect of the Calvinism that infects them all (never let anyone know that Daddy eats from a dog dish while Mommy wears nipple clamps and a leather harness with a strap-on and beats his hopefully upturned ass.)
No one seems to be part of any one large group right now. Everyone seems hell bent on splintering or causing splintering. (<---- hyperbolic statements that will be taken literally only by someone about whom this post was written)
Lefties have never been locksteppers. And for that, we've suffered as much as benefited. Righties have never been critical or critical thinkers. And for that, they've suffered as much as benefitted.
The discourse is coarse.
The rehetoric is meaninglessly rhetorical.
The disdain is palpable.
Why?
I think I know why with respect to the lefties .......
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