Do you think the division between Americans will get worse or better over the next decade?

[jentastic]

[Anonymous]

It’ll get much worse.

I mean they already assault people if they wear a red hat and refer to them as “MAGAts.”

Do you REALLY think things will calm down?

Especially when one side says the other is an “existential threat.”

But hey, no “violent rhetoric” it dehumanizing language there, huh Liberals? 🙄

[OtterMan68]

did not Trump call on his supporters to physically assault hecklers at his rally?
Did not MAGA assault capital hill police?

[Opinion Owner]

@OtterMan68 🙄 Waaah muh insurrection...

... that all those “gun nuts” forgot to bring their guns to. 🙄🤦‍♂️

Meanwhile... www.wusa9.com/.../65-d7a62c04-f76e-45e0-a13b-6a69ca8f5070

🙄

[strateguy632]

worse because jenifer lawrence and others, lead their fans, to divisiveness, vileness and to the cancel culture.

i bet hundreds of people, saw i am a trumper and blocked me instantly.

[WhiteSteve]

I’m not optimistic, lmao. Something extreme like a social media media ban would have to happen first, and I don’t think that would fly, or happen. But I think that’s the main reason the well is poisoned.

Divide always existed, but we just didn’t have a reason or method to interact with one another. I’ve never been to Alabama in my life, I likely may never go. So I’d have no way of interacting with a person from Alabama to even hear their thoughts in the first place, or share ours with them.

And most of our citizens are socially awkward as fuck, lmfao, I think online is where a lot of people go to have a minute to think about what they want to say and come up with something better than what they’d say off-the-cuff in a real-time conversation, and they can LARP like they’re cool kids until they have to go out into the real world and be their true awkward selves again😂

So online is everything, and people go hard, and they succumb to peer pressure and give-mindedness, and you can both silo yourself with like-minded people and shut out outside information and opinions, formulate your cheat sheet for internet arguments (why we hear the same buzzwords and catchphrases 12-24 hours after some politician or pundit coins them), and then go into Gen Pop and shout your pre-written statements at the opps🤦‍♂️ And I think we might be more diplomatic if we were just sitting across a table in person, but we don’t have to get saddled with seeing the emotional response from the other person, seeing hurt or anger on their face when insulted, I think that keeps us more honest in being respectful. Online you just let your meanest barbs rip, with no fear of consequence to yourself or them. I think we act a little more savage in that venue, and that’s an overall negative to the greater situation.

People have allowed their politics to become their personality. I might get along great with that guy from Alabama, if we went bass fishing or had a few beers watching a football game. If we get into politics, we might end up with our hands around each other’s necks, lmfao. And we come online, and we don’t usually talk bass fishing. If we talk football, it’s hit-or-miss, you might be fans of rival teams, and that animosity is the Junior Varsity version of what’s going on in society and politics. The society and politics issues are what we end up shouting about, and now we can’t even fish together or watch a ballgame, and that’s sad.

I’m just barely old enough to remember when the answer to “who are you voting for?” was “none of your business, you should know better than to ask something like that.” Of course there were still activists with buttons or t-shirts, but it just didn’t seem like it was that deep. I feel like we need to go back to shutting the fuck up about what we think and what or who we support😂 But this day and age, everyone is addicted to attention, and drama is perceived as good and entertaining, so I think we’re just screwed, lmfao

[Drew-1990]

Unfortunately yes, the media really shoves the divide on people because it sells and purposely pisses off both sides to keep it that way. Then so many people refuse to agree to disagree and just attacks the other side without listening to the other side. It's ridiculous.

[Dargil]

The only way Americans can become unified in the next 20 years is by the force of a Right Wing absolute ruler; King or Military Dictator. No, Trump isn't it. He's too old and too Libertarian. That could come about from some sort of uprising and suspension of the Constitution as Lincoln did, to a certain extent. One way or another, Bad Times are approaching. I think the USA as it has been for 250 years, may be coming to an end.

[OtterMan68]

Trump libertarian?

[Dargil]

@OtterMan68 I'll leave that you you to disprove.

[OtterMan68]

pro-military buildup
pro-tariffs, anti-free trade
anti-immigration
pro-subsidy
pro-drug war
pro-civil asset forfeiture
wants more gov control of media and social media

[SolitarySolace]

Worse if something isn’t done about this ===

https://youtu.be/Zg8DfeDw04I?si=XRXlBtphwf3wmtF7

[SolitarySolace]

And this: https://youtu.be/txRSxee7gDo?si=WD6o7HRKZtZ93gxY

[jshm2]

You never were a "united" country to begin with, kiddo.

But the false pretences that the USA were built on were not meant to last anyway. Even the founding fathers did not expect the USA to last long.

[slatyb]

Possibly better. I don't think it could get much worse. I expect the MAGA crowd will wake up from Trump's spell.

[AngryCarl]

I'm just a dumb limey but I don't see why it wouldn't get worse. I foresee murders because of a difference in political opinion becoming commonplace. Since America's answer to all problems is "Take off and nuke the site from orbit."

[normalice]

As long as the divide remains profitable it will be maximized.

[exitseven]

It will be worse. I am already stockpiling ammo

[jahaims]

Worse. Political corruption goes too deep to fix and foreign actors invest a lot of resources to divide us even more.

[handsomelad70]

The Second U. S. Civil War will likely begin about 2035.

[OtterMan68]

Better after Trump is gone.

[moneymagnet24]

Devide and rule will work in next decade

[In_Trance]

No change whatsoever