Consensus in America is Dead

I didn’t see Obama’s speech last night, I’ll start there.
But I did see the rapturous comments on Facebook, including one that said, “After that amazing speech, how can we not win?”
Which made me groan.
Are you kidding me?
How long will it take for starry-eyed liberals to get that no matter how badly any administration screws up, no matter how impeachable a president might be (and they don’t get more impeachable than George W. Bush), no matter how egregiously people are lied to, manipulated and run around the mulberry bush, there will never be broad consensus in America ever again about anything, including the question of who should be the president.
We are a fractured nation. Hating each other’s opinions and fighting over them with the most uncivil, irrational and accusatory language we can muster is the national pasttime. We are no longer citizens, we are gladiators. Sure, you and I […]