you think it started 40 years ago. No, I said I'd lived with it for over 40 years. I'm 56 years old and I've been politically aware since Nixon was elected in 1968. My late father was victimized by the right wing during the McCarthy years, which goes back 60 years, so I'm aware that the polarization has been around for some time.
As long as we are a two-party country, there are only two camps, and as a woman I know which one is on my side. Sorry, but everyone I know who doesn't recognize the difference between them doesn't vote at all, which is hardly productive.
You can say whatever you like--you haven't lived what I've lived through, and you're not going to get me to be all hearts and roses towards the other side in the hope that we can find common ground. As far as they're concerned, unless you love Jesus, don't believe in global warming or evolution, you're not worth listening to. So fuck them.
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Date: 2014-06-22 03:29 am (UTC)No, I said I'd lived with it for over 40 years. I'm 56 years old and I've been politically aware since Nixon was elected in 1968. My late father was victimized by the right wing during the McCarthy years, which goes back 60 years, so I'm aware that the polarization has been around for some time.
As long as we are a two-party country, there are only two camps, and as a woman I know which one is on my side. Sorry, but everyone I know who doesn't recognize the difference between them doesn't vote at all, which is hardly productive.
You can say whatever you like--you haven't lived what I've lived through, and you're not going to get me to be all hearts and roses towards the other side in the hope that we can find common ground. As far as they're concerned, unless you love Jesus, don't believe in global warming or evolution, you're not worth listening to. So fuck them.