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Originally Posted by Bownesian
Have you read any of the CBC comment threads recently? Have you ever listened to the difference between the average caller on CBC Radio's Cross Country Checkup and those who call Rutherford's show on QR77?
I've spent a bunch of time with both sides of the political spectrum and the division between my rural Alberta rancher/farmer family and my social worker aunt and her family couldn't be deeper. I realize that every spectrum of opinions will have extreme ends but it seems to me that the poles are already getting more entrenched and more intolerant of the other side.
It's sad but I think it's a consequence of mass and social media and the momentum is already there for a transformation where the loudest voices that are heard will be the equivalent of the Tea Party on one hand and anarchist anti-globalization demonstrators on the other hand.
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We're not as deeply divided as the US is right now. It is totally polarized there. There is no discourse, only political jingoism.