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[quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t unfriend or disown anyone. Honestly, we’ve all been programmed with decades of propaganda that’s gotten more and more extreme.  “News” networks, politicians, radio talk shows, podcasts, social media algorithms, hostile foreign governments, “friendly” foreign governments, special interest groups (NRA for example) - have all blasted us with potent, fear inducing propaganda.  In order for fear inducing propaganda to work, the intensity has to be turned up regularly and year year it’s gotten so intense that the country is now completely divided.

It’s not your right wing or left wing friend’s fault they’re so worked up - it’s the propagandists.  Lots of really intelligent people are deep in the right or left camps.

This is happening in both parties and I suspect the current administration is going to help.  Trump is as far right as you can go without turning the country into a full-on dictatorship.  The stocks I own are off 35% since he took over, our trading partners are questioning whether they can rely on our stability, we’re likely to leave NATO in which we’ve invested decades, lives and trillions of dollars geopolitically boxing in a hostile nuclear foe - now giving them free reign.  Also, the federal government represents 1/3 of our GDP.  With cutting spending so dramatically companies with GSA and DOD contracts will have to reduce their workforces which will worsen the economy.  The $15 per hour manufacturing jobs that might show up in a few years will not be able to replace these high paying jobs.

I think (hope) that Trump helps recreate the moderate majority.  The woke ideologies take away the voice of too many, young men don’t want to vote for the left because they feel excluded. And, you can’t expand the government forever along with spending - there’s got to be reasonable fiscal responsibility at some point.

Currently, neither party works and the country is best governed from the middle.[/quote]

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