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In reply to the discussion: I believe the general purpose of the culture wars [View all]CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)I agree with you. They are purposely dividing us into two vitriolic camps that hate each other. They sharpened their knives with the "We're the party of family values" bullshit during the Bush/Quayle campaign. As if Democrats didn't give a damn about their families or have any values.
Political differences have turned into rabid, hate fests. Have you listened to Right-wing radio? It exists to make the right despise liberals and make the right believe that we are inhuman, evil monsters. Never mind that we're all neighbors, co-workers, community members and that we play in the same parks, attend the same sporting events or that our kids go to school together.
They have us hating each other. A rabid Glenn Beck fan lives up the street and our relationship has deteriorated just because he knows that we are liberals. He has bad mouthed us to his kids, who don't want anything to do with our kids. They used to be goods friends and play together. I dropped off some homemade Christmas cookies and candies to his family and he starts in on me--talking about Obama's socialism and how Obama wants his guns. I kept saying that we all care about our families and are good people. He just kept going.
This is by design and it is worsening. I hate their anti-gay bigotry, their insane "socialist" remarks, and other stances. So I struggle because I can barely stand their disgusting and ignorant views on healthcare and climate change. I'd like to throttle them. So I'm playing into the divisions and falling into the trap. The bottom line is that right-wing tv/radio is stuffing their heads full of lies and ridiculous propaganda. It's as if 30 percent of the country is speaking a different language.
It's very, very disconcerting and I wish I knew how to solve the problem. Because, if this country doesn't unite, it goes down in flames because these evil corporatists/neocons have succeeded in getting us to fight with each other while they destroy our democracy.
I'm at a loss. I tried baking cookies and that didn't work.