OPINION: 'Unfortunately, therein resides perhaps the largest obstacle to uniting. We don’t know how to go about it,' writes longtime journalist Richard Gilman.
In the face of inflammatory rhetoric, contested elections, concerted efforts to spread disinformation, contentious state legislation, all the uglies we face today, we shouldn’t be surprised that the narrative we hear over and over is divided, divided, divided.
People are also reading… Well, to throw a little further light on the subject, Americans do not want to be endlessly at odds with each other. The respondents to these polls are not oblivious to present circumstances. In the most recent survey respondents were asked to show on a sliding scale whether we are divided or united. Their answers veered distinctly toward divided, averaging out at a -34.
Survey participants indicate in response to a variety of questions that they do not want politicians continually lobbing artillery rounds at each other in never-ending partisan warfare. Asked whether elected officials in debating controversial legislation should work it out or fight it out, a rather astonishing 93 percent contend they should work it out. Some direct their criticisms at one side or the other but most do not distinguish between the two.
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