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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:00 PM Original message |
When did our country become so divided? |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
1. It comes and goes, doesn't it? |
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Crazy Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:08 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Except WWII |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
2. Newt Gave it Legs |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. I think Newt has a lot of blame too. Remember his "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control"? |
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Rageneau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. I think the emergence of Limbaugh was a big factor. |
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BOSSHOG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:08 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. And that emergence was assisted by ray-gun's killing of the Fairness Doctrine |
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Crazy Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
4. The media helps |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
5. My best guess is Goldwater running for president in 1964. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
6. I was the GOP working to turn the religious right into patsys that |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
8. The rise of RW talk radio in the late 80's |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
9. Before the Civil War. It was never actually "healed". (NT) |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. That's the correct answer. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
10. It really started in 1996 |
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Devlzown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
11. The 2000 election had a lot to do with it. |
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Saturday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. I agree with you. |
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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
13. Vietnam and the Civil Rights era is when the split started. |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
15. although it has likely existed forever |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
16. 2000 |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
17. It takes a lot of effort to hold this thing together |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
19. During the greed driven Reagan years-when everyone was indoctrinated that they would be rich. |
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flordehinojos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
20. it seems to me that each time the bushes push the pedal ... they have a magic gas which divides de |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
22. Deleted message |
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:45 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Capitalism pure evil? Lost moral compass? Hmmm |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
24. Those d---'d Anti-Foederalists do importune his Excellency Gen'l Washington most fouly |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
25. Rash Limpbag |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
26. The day Bill Clinton said he was running for office. Daddy Bush told him NOT TO RUN |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
27. It Started With the Spiteful Words: "There You Go Again" |
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VP505 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
28. We have probably |
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12string (443 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
29. We started to go that direction |
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MiniMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
30. I think it was when Poppy lost to Clinton |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
31. civil war |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
32. There have always been divisions, but nothing like this. |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
33. 1981 |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
34. I believe it was the 1830s...and it never went away. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
35. Wow. What fascinating and thought provoking responses - I can't thank you |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
36. the late 1960s |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
37. when the republicans had to dehumanize the democrats in order to win. n/t |
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