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edhopper

(33,573 posts)
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 01:48 PM Nov 2020

The country will remain divided

and it will remain divided because the Republican politicians and Republican voters want it to be divided.

The will never accept any Democrats in power.

To hope for anything else and chase after their support is a fools errand.

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roamer65

(36,745 posts)
2. This division has been brewing for 40 years.
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 01:50 PM
Nov 2020

It started under Raygun.

Dump is symptom of the disease.

Caliman73

(11,730 posts)
5. Nixon actually. Reagan just put it into systematic overdrive.
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 02:02 PM
Nov 2020

Nixon, Ailes, and Buchanan wanted to launch GOPTv to put out the conservative view point. Lewis Powell also put out his memorandum in 1971 which laid the blueprint for conservative dominance over the coming decades.

Reagan was an effective pitch man, but by no means was he the architect.

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
3. Today, yesterday, and the day before the Republican congress have made that clear to us time and
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 01:51 PM
Nov 2020

time again. We simply ignore them proudly and with a smile telling us they will do everything to obstruct while fistbumping as if we are friends.

mitch96

(13,892 posts)
4. Weren't we divided from the begining? Industrial North and Ag south... From what I have read
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 01:58 PM
Nov 2020

that's how the electoral college came about to even out the states effect on government. The low population south feared the north would always out vote them so the powers that be at the time came up with the electorial college idea..YMMV

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