This has been going on for decades. Talk radio amped up the hostility, social media made it 10x worse.
Bidens latest, um, gaffe?
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Lean on your friends, they're probably right.
https://www.mydomaine.com/gaslighting-in-relationships
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/12/19/18140830/gaslighting-relationships-politics-explained
Your question is a prime example of how information nowadays is governed by your political ideology. If we can't have a shared history, it's little wonder why the divide continues to grow.
Obama put three Republicans on his cabinet (an unprecedented move) and reached out to a Congressional Republicans unified against him numerous times -- to the point where some frustrated Democrats were upset by his continual attempts at bipartisanship.
Here's an old link I found that attempts to summarize his first term attempts: http://www.themodestproposal.com/?p=151
Wow, it was so brave of Obama to reach out to a Republicans after voters delivered him the biggest congressional swing midterm election defeat in modern history to throw his party out of power.
He’s so brave!
he talked about trying to bring people together. i bought it too. that is why i voted for him in 2008. he was all talk and no action. as soon as he was in power, that quickly changed and it was us verse them. he continued to help sew divide in the country year after year. if im honest, i think it was more of the media than obama. but he didnt do anything to help.
When the opposition party leadership was on public record saying that they wanted him to fail, what's he supposed to do?
I will grant you that Obama was not a Congressional 'schmoozer' like Reagan or Bill Clinton was when they were in the White House, but the deck was stacked against him.
It was Limbaugh that said he wanted obama to fail, not party leadership. McConnell said they were going to stop him, but I think that statement came later.
It was all about stopping Obama regardless of the issue. That sure sounds ultra-partisan to me.
It's almost as if he got into office and immediately passed a hyper partisan bill that overhauled 2/5 of our economy without a single vote from the other side.
Funny thing about that "hyper-partisan" bill: Republicans up for reelection last year were adamant in their campaign ads that they would continue to protect its coverage of pre-existing conditions. WTF?
Because we don't have any choice now. All of the competition has been run out of the market, including the state pool. There's no turning back now, we just have to wait for the system to collapse and politicians want to delay that as long as possible.
Are you implying that a bill so large that Pelosi couldn’t read it only called for pre existing condition coverage?
You’re a damn liar, man. That’s not true and no one has ever said that.
You want to check my shape man, let’s do push-ups together here, man. Let’s run. Let’s do whatever you want to do. Let’s take an IQ test. Ok?
You want to check my shape man, let’s do push-ups together here, man. Let’s run. Let’s do whatever you want to do. Let’s take an IQ test. Ok?
Biden seems like the crazy old man neighbor. Might go ballistic if your fence line is 1 inch off. Head of the HOA.
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