Dated
The American political divide is no longer between
Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, religionists and
secularists. It is between roughly two halves of the country, each of
which would be perfectly happy to see the other wiped, by violence if
necessary, from the face of the earth. That was not how the North and
the South felt about each other when President Lincoln ordered the
invasion of Virginia by Union troops in 1861, and perhaps not four years
later when Lee surrendered his sword to Grant at Appomattox. Politics
in America is no longer political, or even ideological. It is
existential, the existence of one side having become a moral and
personal affront to the other. Each can no longer tolerate the sight,
sound, smell, or thought of the other.
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