Quote:And the same can be said for republican or conservative voters. I can't tell you how many things I've corrected by conservative friends and family on Facebook posting unresearched and incorrect information.

That happens on both sides of the aisle.  If you want to verify that, just look at the "Occupy Democrat" garbage that they put out on a daily basis.  It's almost exclusively based on a granule of truth wrapped in a big old pile of lies.

 

Quote:It's always been "US vs THEM" in politics. If you thinik the mudslinging is bad now, google how it was in Lincolns time. It was Far worse.

 

Exactly.  When this country was founded, about 30% supported declaring independence. 

 

We had a war between the states because of divisions. 

 

If we actually abandoned the true 2 party system in favor of some homogeneous system, that would spell the end for this country.  There's a need for an adversarial relationship between the parties.  From great division comes great action.  Civil rights was adamantly opposed by democrats, but it was a democrat president working with republicans who made that happen.  All of the success Bill Clinton takes credit for economically?  Had it not been for the republicans taking control of congress, that probably wouldn't have been nearly the case. 

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