Tweety asked in his close... When did that sense of unity die?

[nadinbrzezinski]

What happened?

In my opinion the day Bush said...go shopping.

[bemildred]

1. VietNam is when it died.

And it's been dead ever since.

[Igel]

9. Agreed.

Although I think we might disagree over the details, that's nearer the time frame.

I suppose we could go back to McCarthy, but that was penny ante compared to Vietnam. (The sheer hatred shown--by both sides--was incredible. It was obvious to me when my 6th grade class visited the Washington Mall during some of the protests.)

[Pirate Smile]

2. Iraq

[chelsea0011]

3. Watergate. It's when the nation learned the government is crooked

beyond anything we could imagine. And coming on the heels of Vietnam, most people completely thought it is all corrupt. It is at it's zenith right now with a so-called "news station" running a political machine.

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. +1. Also began a horrible game of tit-for-tat politics - no longer about the people.

I think that everything has been about political party payback ever since.

[tularetom]

4. It died when talking heads like Matthews began exploiting policy differences

in order to create controversy.

It died when media coverage of political events began sounding like ESPN.

And it finally irreparably died when TV pundits began taking sides (one side) in political discussions, and when republicans finally figured out that morans like Chris Matthews could be manipulated to do their dirty work for them.

Matthews himself is as responsible for the death of unity in this country as anybody. When you watch him drool over that friggin crook Tom Delay, you begin to understand just what is wrong with what passes for journalism today.

[CTyankee]

5. It really never was. We've been a cutthroat capitalist society for many, many years now.

Americans are not going into the streets to riot over jobs. No large protests on labor unions being smashed. Americans don't seem to care. It's all a big nothing to them. Their cell phones and latest apps are all they care about.

No sense of unity? Hell no...

[madrchsod]

6. reagan started in the 80`s and bush finished it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Yeah but that was the true moment when people went

Frack it.