Subject: Re: Great America, but not AmeriiCANS
People can't find areas to agree on in Tribal Caste based America - it's gotta be all or nothing.

Crappy leaders. Exacerbated by a system that tends to put up extremist party candidates, so that centrists have no one to vote for in the general election.

Every now and then a movie or program gets it right. We've been watching The Lioness, and in season 2 Morgan Freeman had a great monologue about coming together, and division. It began as an interchange between characters that started:

"News stopped being news when they started doing it 24 hours a day."

"You got it. It became entertainment and a poor form at that."