Can the polarization between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. be reversed?

[AFTT47]

The polarization here is definitely extreme. To me, it started with the election of Bill Clinton in 1992. That was the first time I voted Democrat, having voted for Reagan twice and once for the elder Bush.

I remember being astounded at all of the people treating it as the end of the world. It was particularly puzzling being that Bill was a centrist - not a far-left liberal.

I found myself on the other side when we elected Bush Lite twice. He wasn't particularly far to the right - just such a fucking dumb-ass.

Obama was certainly more liberal than Clinton but he wasn't a weakling on the world stage as Jimmy Carter had been. As John McCain famously said, he was a good, decent man who simply had a difference of opinion with Republicans. Indeed, he was a 100% scandal-free President. How could you say bad things against this good man, aside from political differences?

Now, we have a President who is something out of apocalyptic fiction. How to fuck could something like this happen?

I don't know. Maybe we are actually heading toward another civil war.

We had a tremendously chaotic clash of culture here in the 1960s which eventually equalized and settled out in the 1970s which led into the mellow 1980s. The difference is that in the 1960s, the social left rose up. They called for progress and eventually won over the majority. Now, we have the Jurassic right rising up, determined to lead us back to the stone ages. I really don't think that's going to work out. We on the left are NOT going to go back there!

It probably won't quite lead to civil war but I do believe it could get seriously ugly before it's through.