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A NATION DIVIDED – NOT. An article in the U.K. paper, The Independent, notes that the film Alexander the Great did not do well over the weekend, and concludes:
...it has brutally exposed the cultural and moral divide which slices America in two.
...Meanwhile, 70 per cent of those who responded to a recent New York Times/CBS poll said they were very or somewhat concerned that television, movies and music were lowering moral standards in the US.
While the sentiment was voiced by both Republicans and Democrats, it appears that the concern about a decline in values is yet another point of polarisation in American politics.
If the great majority of people don’t go to see a movie, that is not evidence of a nation divided in two.
If the great majority of people (70%) agree on something, that is not evidence of a nation divided in two. It is in fact, evidence of the reverse.
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You are so on the mark! The truth is people who disagree with anything these days tend to remark how divided things are in an effort to add legitimacy to their ideas even when their ideas are firmly in the minority.
Many a radical columnist tries to site how divided things are when they are in the minority and then sites just how wrong the other side is when the radical is lucky enough to be in the majority. It is a way for people with mostly unacceptable ideas to cover up and never lend strength to an argument that is not their own.