Us vs Them

As with most people these days, I have a facebook account, but that's about it. I used to have a couple others, but no more.

One of the things I have always tried to do, usually successfully, is to avoid politics on my posts. I do have feeds that hit that are political; I guess you can't screen everything out. I am surprised however, how many people it seems get their 'news' from social media. You almost wonder if they have any other source of information. Now, I don't screen out one side or the other. I get feeds from both the liberal and conservative, democratic and republican. To me, this lets me see both sides of an issue, and generally don't comment on either side, and I do have friends and family who have views almost diametrically opposed to mine.

What has come to mind for me is, the two feeds are not really the same. Yes, both sides of the coin complain about each other, some posters (on both sides) more than others. I do find, in my opinion, the posters coming from the liberal side tend to be significantly less flexible in their opinions and are more derogatory than the posters on the conservative side. Leftists find no good in anything the current president does or accomplishes. Even things that benefit the country as a whole are overlooked and criticized, at times, the same things that were done or said by a president of the opposite party. They blame MAGA followers as inflexible and only able to see what the president says or does. I would make the same argument about the far-left liberals who blindly follow whatever people like Bernie Sanders or Allexandria Ocasio-Cortez seem to say once they are in front of a television camera.

It's about time the centrists of both parties begin to reign in the extremists. They accomplish nothing more than inflaming differences and driving a wedge down the country. Not everything Trump does is right and I don't always agree with his views, but neither is everything he does is wrong. He was elected by the process we have as a nation. It is the process. Both sides point fingers at the other saying things were manipulated. Likely true, but both sides are really to blame. It's time the parties begin to work together for the people of the country that elected them and not the special interests, be they business/corporations or immigrants to this country that aren't supposed to be here in the first place.