Is this really what we've sunk to?
It's hard to believe that the parties are really this divided. Yet, it certainly appears that way.
I'm reminded of an op-ed piece by Thomas Friedman at the beginning of the school year that openly questioned whether or not Americans on the left and right have just grown too far apart to ever reconcile and get anything done. Worse yet, he fretted that because the far left and far right are so irreconcilable that maybe something terrible would happen.
After reading the report on the GOP, it seems something terrible has occurred.
Will the two sides ever reconcile though?
It seems that the extremes on either side just won't listen to reason and only insist on believing what they want to. Which is why people believe in those lunatic forwards they receive or listen to Rush Limbaugh (a colleague said he was listening to Limbaugh rant on about Jesse Jackson (and some of Limbaugh's criticism was justified), but then Rush claimed that Jackson was not with King when he was assassinated . . . that is just a lie, Jackson was indeed there. But the danger is that the far right - just as the far left is guilty of this - doesn't care about facts. They only want to believe what they want to believe).
And it seems that the GOP and their strategy for the next election is just feeding right into that.
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