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The Great Divide

    I do not need to tell you that America is divided. Pick a topic and go ask the nearest person and ask their view on it. Odds are its vastly different than your own. To quote Donald Glover, “This is America”. A gross amalgamation of viewpoints that struggles to find oxygen. We were weak from the start. How do you quantify America? How do you even begin to bring together people who are just so vastly different on every solitary level? I would love to say that I have the answer to those questions, but I don’t. No one does.

    The fact is that “facts” are relative now. I do miss the days when wrong was just plain wrong. Now there is different levels of wrong. There is my wrong. My “facts” that people who do not see eye to eye with me will swear is false. Then there are your “facts”. Which I will swear are false. Who’s to say who is right? Science and evidence seem like a good start but so many just ignore it. This is the world we live in now.  

    We now exist inside our own little bubbles. Conservatives, Liberals, Neo-Nazis, avocado lovers. We all live inside these bubbles where outside facts just can’t get through, unless they prove the viewpoints we already have. Do you believe the election was rigged, despite all the evidence pointing to the contrary? Well here is Newsmax, OAN and Fox News to tell you that you are 100% right. What “facts” do they offer? Nothing concrete of course. Word of mouth conjecture at best.

    I don’t want it to seem like I am unfairly targeting Conservatives. Liberals are guilty of living in bubbles too. But Liberals did not storm the capitol. Liberals did not kill a capitol police officer. Really, its not fair to say Conservatives did either. Trump supporters sure as hell did. The cult of Trump showed in full force that day. 

    How do you reconcile this? A huge portion of the population believes that Trump won the election when he clearly did not. The divide in this country has gotten so large that we don’t even know what the other side looks like anymore. All we have is the ridiculous caricatures on propaganda posters.  There are too many idiots with megaphones and not enough people being honest with each other. “United we stand, divided we fall.” If anything, the insurrection at the capitol has proven that to be true.


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