| Slimebeast said: I never thought the polarization was so huge in the US. It's been very apparent on VGC too lately (although I fink half of the liberals debating are from the UK). Or rather, I didnt think there was so many liberals as there seem to be. I though 'liberal' was a foul word in the US. |
Bush lost the popular vote in 2000, and in 2004 he won, but during a war, we have never voted out a sitting president ever. Bush won by the smallest margin a sitting president has ever won by during a war. And then John Kerry actually won more states in 2004 than McCain did in 2008, and that was against some young punk "with no experience."
America goes back and forth, and Bush ruined the idea of convervatism for a great many moderates, who moved to the left, or at least just slightly enough to the left to vote for Obama at least once.
There are many liberals all over the country. Fox has tried to make the word sound bad by running a smear campaign against all liberals and all of liberalism for the last 8 years, but I hope you're not learning about America from Fox.
EDIT: And it's definitely not as crazy as the OP thinks it is. There's still a lot of racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and inequality, but it's nowhere near a civil war, and nobody's seceding. We just have a whole lot of loud angry wackos on TV and the internet, on all sides of all issues. I blame the first amendment.
