Corbynites threaten Jewish MP

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The world is more polarised now than it has been for a long time. Why can't we all just get along.

I don't really accept that at all. I mean we are only a couple decades removed from the cold war. That's a polarized world. Only a few decades removed from segregation and apartheid, that's a polarized world. Only a couple generations removed from a time when you never knew when France and Germany would be at war with one another. That's a polarized world.

I think by any decent definition of the word, people get along better today then they ever have in history. It's just that if you choose to focus on the negative, that is all you are going to see.

The cold war was a period of relative political stability and mainly restricted to governments but the polarisation is now personal. the rise of the right across Europe and another bout of isolationism from the US seeming likely. I've seen it myself with people who for years I thought of as nice people allowing their intolerance to surface, it's been sudden and rather taken me back.