{"id":2004,"date":"2006-09-29T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2006-09-29T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T16:08:00","slug":"political-thought-followup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/political-thought-followup\/","title":{"rendered":"Political thought followup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in the previous post that our government has perfected the polarizing bi-partisan activity of &#8216;us&#8217; vs. &#8216;them.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2000 elections I was told how someone slapped a friend of mine in his house because she disagreed with his politics.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2004 elections I read countless stories of election motivated violence.<\/p>\n<p>If this feeling of us vs. them continues&#8230; if we poliarize this nation perfectly down the center. 50% of us hating and mistrusting 50% of us. If the violence keeps building&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Now, for those of you who may have taken a history class. Do the words, &#8220;Civil War&#8221; make sense?<\/p>\n<p>Because sooner or later it will only take one event. That&#8217;s how these things begin. Let&#8217;s stop talking about Black and White. Let&#8217;s go back to thinking for ourselves.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2004\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/political-thought-followup\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2004\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/political-thought-followup\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-2004\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/political-thought-followup\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/political-thought-followup\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in the previous post that our government has perfected the polarizing bi-partisan activity of &#8216;us&#8217; vs. &#8216;them. In the 2000 elections I was told how someone slapped a friend of mine in his house because she disagreed with his politics. In the 2004 elections I read countless stories of election motivated violence. 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