(12-05-2018, 04:26 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: When George W. Bush took office is when it started to get "hostile".  Since then both major political parties became more and more divisive.  It started with the "hanging chads" debacle in that election.  The same tired argument was made by the left... he didn't win the popular vote.

That's about the rise in social media too wasn't it?

1997 AOL and AIM
1998 GOOGLE
2000 George W election
2003 Myspace
2004 Facebook
2006 Twitter
2008 iPhone with mobile apps
2008 Obama (and the birth of "Thanks Obama!")

fast forward to today where we have so much instant analysis and widespread media and information and misinformation on top of a multitude of social media services....
it isn't gonna get better until people become a little more private with their lives again.
Time to disconnect and put politics back in the box.

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