Emma Green is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Her article today appeared in the Drudge Report. It is titled: Americans Hate One Another. Impeachment isn't helping.
She writes that Americns no longer feel a shared sense of national identity. We divide along party lines, but the partisanship is what she refers to as political tribalism.
Factionalism, that George Washington warned against, is now our political and cultural reality, it seems. Democrats and Republicans, Green writes, see their political opponents as enemies with totally incomprehensible beliefs and lifestyles.
We Republicans and conservatives could compromise with moderate Democrats and temperate liberals, but there is no compromising with radical socialist democrats and Progressives. We must defeat them, period.
Green asked Michele Margolis, a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania about things and Margolis noted that American democracy functions only when each side is able to recognize the other as legitimate and accept the outcome when it loses. (Ed writing: but the Democrats have used Mueller, the smearing Press and now phony impeachment charges to overturn Trump's 2016 election, and to derail his 2020 reelection bid. They are the ones that are a disloyal, authoritarian opposition.)
If Democrats and Leftists were moderate, not radical, totalitarian and socialist, we would associate with these opponents that do not think like conservatives do politically. If they were loyal opposition, and fair, supportive opposition, we would still enjoy each other, associate with and tolerate each other, despite gently opposing each other.
They are acting in bad faith, and they are bad people, and the Left and the Right do not see the world the same anymore. Common ground has ceased to exist.
The effort to save America and make America great again is what we must bring to the voters--to hell with socialists and Democrats that stand in our way.
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