I’m with you OP. Politics now has become “my side vs your side”. Maybe it was like this before, or had always been like this, and I was just too young to realize it. Unfortunately we are pretty much stuck with the 2-party system.

I have always voted Conservative, because I, for the most part, agree with their policies. Not all the time though, and I admit that the candidates can learn to just shut their yaps every once in a while, and let their actions do the talking.

its just an all out war of words between the right and left now. I think it got going during the Obama administration, since it lined up with the advent of social media. My opinion, although most conservatives had nothing against Obama personally, a lot of them probably felt that the Left rubbed it in, and then once Trump came it then it just became vindication and revenge for the previous 8 years.

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