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To: combjelly who wrote (336784)	5/8/2007 6:10:16 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576296

"I don't know how real this is but it makes for an interesting story." It is hard to say. To me, it says that there is growing recognition that polarizing the country is a bad thing. But that plays to my preconceptions. As a country, we are at our greatest when we have the vast majority of people buying in. When we have just a slim majority, there is waffling and backbiting. And nothing good gets done. I have no sense that the polarization is lessening. In fact, I would say the polarization has increased. The group of people who support Bush has grown smaller and more intractable whereas the group opposing Bush has become larger and equally inflexible. And I think the cause for the resulting estrangement between the two groups has a lot more to it than just the war in Iraq. I think the ideologies are fundamentally different, giving rise to two very different views on how the country should be run. For a long time, I think the right's objections simmered under the surface until Bush came along. Now they are out in plain view. I think its easier for you to view it from a centrist perspective because of you're living in TX. As a moderate you've had to co exist in a state where the radical right is fairly strong. For the rest of us, that isn't necessarily true. I have lived my whole life in blue states and have rarely had to compromise my views on the state level.........only on the national level to a limited degree. In fact, it wasn't until Bush's election that I realized how strong the differences are. FWIW.