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To: Lou Weed who wrote (35935)	9/5/2021 1:53:57 PM
From: Sun Tzu	2 Recommendations Recommended By ajtj99 towerdog Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97958

The person who broke the US politics was Newt Gingrich. Aside from being (on a personal level) one of the most despicable people that I've known, he had a lasting negative effect on the US. The process was made worse by successive GOP admins. This is not a partisan opinion. It is a fact admitted to by numerous GOP operatives. Rove explicitly made polarization a centerpiece of GOP strategy in pursuit of his permanent majority. Trump took Rove's doctrine a step further and perfected it. There is no reason to believe this trend will stop at the next admin, and everyone should be very concerned about it. Polls in the '70s showed about 1 in 5 people objecting to their children marrying someone from the other party. Today that number is close to 4 in 5! Think about that. An American now does not care that their in-law is a doctor or a successful businessman or a charity worker, if they are from the opposite party, they will reject him/her. Here is a chart that I put out a few years ago. It is dated but still very revealing. I strongly suspect that the problem has gotten much worse since the end of this chart. What you are seeing is how often a bill managed to get bipartisan support and how often members of one party reached out to the other side. In the beginning, the Congress looks like a fully functioning brain considering the issues from both sides. Starting with Newt Gingrich, the US began its brain damage down the dementia and schizophrenia. (Or alternatively, a cold civil war that might turn out to be a hot one in a not to distant future, as Jan 6 events showed). .

To: Lou Weed who wrote (35935)	9/6/2021 8:40:30 PM
From: ajtj99	4 Recommendations Recommended By Jacob Snyder Lou Weed rcksinc towerdog Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97958

When Middle Eastern people who are unfamiliar with each other meet, one of the first things that happens is there is a dance to see what religion each is. Names are vetted, the country you are from, your accent, hometown. All of that stuff. Then you are assigned a bias based upon all of that. That's if you started out saying Salam Alechem. If not, it goes much quicker. I've seen it really get drawn out when a person has a name that is ambiguous and is from a town that had mixed religions living there. It could be a 15-minute dance without resolution if someone is being cautious. In Beirut for the past 45-years, taxi drivers pretty much only take passengers of the same religion as them. It wasn't that way before the mid-70's civil war. As bad as it is in the US with the divide between people, it could be a whole lot worse. I see I used the word "civil war." That's not what I was alluding to. I was alluding to divisions amongst people that are so extreme that they don't trade, talk, or have anything to do with each other.