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Amaryllis

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8. I see the difference now as being that people literally live in alternate universes now and there

Wed May 17, 2017, 02:47 PM

May 2017

is no way to bridge. I have a close friend with whom I went to college in the late 60s/early 70s - the height of the Vietnam protests...who has become a Fox watcher, and also my brother. Both smart people but completely brainwashed and hypnotized by Fox. There is no way for us even to talk about politics because their universe is made up of very different facts than mine is. There is no intersection. It was deeply divided back then, but we only had the three networks. I think right wing media has manufactured a lot of the deep polarization we see now.

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I remember the fighting between people during Watergate. My brother and a co-worker were on [View all] wasupaloopa May 2017 OP

Watergate predates me, but I heard my family discussing it growing up. herding cats May 2017 #1

I lived in red DuPage County in Illinois murielm99 May 2017 #2

Watergate seems rather juvenile Phoenix61 May 2017 #3

Great post, wasupaloopa C Moon May 2017 #4

CREEP modrepub May 2017 #5

The difference is back then we did not have cable news creating parallel universes that don't Amaryllis May 2017 #6

The country is more polarized as a whole but the country was equally polarized in the 70's due to wasupaloopa May 2017 #7

I see the difference now as being that people literally live in alternate universes now and there Amaryllis May 2017 #8

I agree with what you said wasupaloopa May 2017 #10

I fear the pro-Trumpers will become violent HAB911 May 2017 #9