Will we ever be able to put our country back together again?

[mourningdove92]

This really concerns me. I was just reading another post regarding the repugs praying that the "evil" one will be defeated Tuesday.

I will be and have been praying the same prayer...different "evil" one.

If you go to freeperville, it reads very much like DU, only the names are different.

How can we bridge this chasm in our country? That is one of the many things I lay at Smirks feet. After 9/11, there were no Dems or Repugs. We were all Americans wanting to help our country heal. How in the hell did he screw it up so bad? Sometimes one just have to wonder if it was a deliberate act, just to see how much we would take.

Kerry and Edwards have a very tall order ahead. God help them.

[salinen]

1. only the names are different

Hardly. They represent the psychotic paranoid childish narcissistic greedy division in homo sapians.

[isrealpackard]

8. Win the post-election, win the country, do the right thing

John Kerry can begin healing immediately after the election by truly governing from the middle. A large number of non-idealogues will respond to nonpartisan moves. Not only should this solidfy Kerry's mandate, but could isolate the rabid righty.
It will be generations before we've overcome the divisive atmosphere created by George Wallace and Richard Nixon, advanced by Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich and perfected by George W. Bush, but America is more important than party, and someone who care more about America will try.

[newyawker99]

9. Hi isrealpackard!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Anakin Skywalker]

2. Ask Creepers that!

Can't. Rethugs are just too dense and uptight to ever want compromises. No compromises = No peace. As simple as that.

[aquart]

5. Uh huh. And what compromises are YOU willing to accept?

Better watch that rock you're swinging. Your house is glass as long as you can't imagine your opponent as a human being with the same feelings and attachments as you.

[Anakin Skywalker]

7. The way I see it..

they are the ones who need to compromise because they are the extremists. All my views are moderate. They are the ones who need to come back to reality.

[rockydem]

3. It will be difficult

But honestly I don't want to be united with freepers or right-wingers. As far as I'm concerned there will be no 'healing' or 'unity' with those scumbags.

[meti57b]

4. wasnt there a thread here that 25%-35% of evangelicals do not support bush

? ... or was that on cable news. If that is true, that is a good start.

[pinto]

6. Yes.

We will ride out this divide, as we have deeper divides in the past.

Extremism has never held a lasting place in American politics, by design, by our size and by our population's diversity. Change may be slow to come, it seems, but the tide turns.

Hang in there.

[terrya]

10. It will be very, very difficult.

This country is so polarized right now. Political discourse on television consisting of people screaming at each other...what Jon Stewart was mentioning on "Crossfire".

Part of the problem, frankly, is Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and that ilk bringing such a nasty tone to the airwaves and the media. And we've matched it, I'm afraid.

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[Lex]

12. You need to work on your crystal ball, pal.

Kerry WINS Tuesday and starts to put the US back together again, like Clinton did after Reagan and Bush I screwed it up for 12 years.

[leftofthedial]

13. not without some serious structural changes

the neocons have incited and manipulated the deregulation of capitalism, media and "religion" to mobilize and mislead a huge political constituency. This must be undone as peacefully as possible, though I fear it won't be entirely peaceful.

[melody]

14. No, I don't think so

I'm afraid we're ten years from either (1) a Constitutional secession or (2) a Civil War. We're already in a cold Civil War now.