I read an article a couple of days ago that pretty much confirmed my belief that the United States is becoming more and more divided — along partisan political lines. Public opinion is far more divided now along partisan lines than along the lines of race, religion, age, gender and educational background.
For some reason, we’ve become Republicans or Democrats first — not Americans.
A journalist from Baltimore wrote a lot of insightful stuff that seemed a little out of touch at the time, but seems “spot on” today. H. L Mencken, known as the “Sage of Baltimore,” died in 1956 but one of the things he wrote seems appropriate today: “Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right.”
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