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(08-20-2019, 10:53 AM)Aquapod770 Wrote: Fair enough. I think the media is to blame for a lot of the division in this country.

Nah, I find that too easy an explanation. E.g. I also blame other aspects of american exceptionalism for that, as well as your political system and your voting system and whatnot.
The media often nut just creates, but also reflects divisions.

(08-20-2019, 10:53 AM)Aquapod770 Wrote: I just don't think supporting something equally as crazy is a great way to find common ground on any topic. 

That's also fair enough. It probably isn't. It's difficult though, how else to go about it? I wouldn't know how one could do that in that climate using reason. Reason's not popular.

And though it might be petty, I take issue with the words "equally crazy". To bore you with an explanation, to me pre-Trump one of the craziest things about US politics were those climate change denying republicans that held hearings with scientists in the clear intent to expose them as frauds - by something clever they bring up, like how global wobbling is not part of the models, hence the models are worthless and it took that one republican guy to prove it. Or the guys that go to congress with a snowball in their hands, or that guy with the glass and the ice cubes. There's a long list of absurd there actually. That is crazy denial. Some over the top proposals are not "equally crazy", for at least they accept reality as a basis.

Sorry about the bunch of words, but though I don't have too many issues with conservatives to begin with, that ridiculous flat-out climate change denial - paired with conspiracy theories about the "fraud science" - sported by so many of them really ticks me off.