Quote Originally Posted by bu villain View Post
Right, so how do we begin to close the huge partisan gap? That's what I want to discuss. I think discussion is a good way, but for that to happen on a large scale, the media has to be on board and stop giving so much air time to the most extreme, most ideological, and most partisan people. The journalistic endeavor to inform people has taken a back seat to entertaining them.
The only way to close it would be an educated electorate or a major disaster that concentrates our energies elsewhere. It would take an enemy that both left and right can agree to hate and destroy. To me, that sounds like a real war, not these minor skirmishes we have been involved in.