Quote from: protokol on December 15, 2016, 12:45:44 AM

Quote from: Tyrantt on December 15, 2016, 12:10:02 AM

Quote from: Gibbar on December 14, 2016, 04:04:02 AM

It seems. What is the problem here? Why so many are stupid, jealous, psychopathic, childish. Not sure when this became OK and the norm in our society, country is turning into a shit heap.

" Why so many are stupid, jealous, psychopathic, childish." it's like you're talking about the left libtards in America. Where when they dont get what they want, they scream and cry little little children. So this sentance you wrote, describes them 100%.

"country is turning into a shit heap." well since there are safe zones on campuses and various stupid shit like that, no wonder people voted for Trump aka God Emperor, people are tired of the retarded left.

To be fair, I think certain members of both sides act in this way. Examples of the right-wing electorate acting in this way could be things like screaming about gay marriage, non-christian temples being erected in their vicinity, taxes on oil and gasoline, importation of foreign goods (even though they may be half the price of the same goods in America) etc.

I think the problem is, the supporters of both sides (Hilary vs Trump) have become so polarized that we only see the extreme aspects of each side. This results in people on the right being branded as "racists/bigots" and people on the left branded as "snowflakes/commies", even when these individuals have valid arguments.

Similar thing happened in the UK with Brexit, people who wanted to leave were branded as racists because they wanted control over immigration, and remainers were branded as ignorant pussies who were happy to let "muslim rapist refugees" enter their country. Similar problem, where instead of addressing people's arguments directly and intelligently, they are insulted, polarising the electorate more and more.

It's also worth noting that the most extreme comments tend to come from a small minority of individuals, whereas the majority are much less extreme on both sides. I think this is becasue the media like to propagate the extreme stories more than the others, to make more money - an unavoidable result of free press, capitalism and a lot of dumb people who lap it all up...

Yeah it is unfortunate how the media benefits from and emphasizes the differences between the two parties. I think the election system itself is partially to blame as well. It seems that the moderates are always lost in the primaries and by the time we get to the election we are left with two extremes. A lot of people I talked to were dissappointed with the options for the election and unfortunately the way the system is set up, you take a big risk by voting for a third party.

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