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Old 06-30-2020, 10:35 AM
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IMO so true, and USA division is so sad - I see no apparent solution or 'end' to this>
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This has me questioning whether or not we are really all that divided.

While certainly there are strong opinions about everything on both sides of every issue. Most people accept that people can have opinions that differ from theirs.

Certainly there are many that strongly support or oppose both presidential candidates, but isn't really a very small and very vocal minority that is causing trouble?

I know that there are protests and riots going on in many major cities but many of our 330,000,000 citizens are actually involved in them. Even if it's a few million, which I seriously doubt, that doesn't mean that the vast, vast majority of us are all that divided.

I have friends that I agree with politically and friends that I disagree with politically. Somehow we still all manage to remain friends. We find that we have a lot that we agree on.

Almost every presidential election is won by less than ten percentage points. How are we any more divided now than during all those other elections?

It's the media and politicians that are telling us that we are divided when the truth is there are very few people involved in the divisiveness that we see in the media every day.
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