Sometimes it seems that Americans are on the verge of tearing apart our beautiful national fabric.
We hear, “President (pick a name) hates America. The (pick a name) Party is destroying our nation.”
We hear and read about every action of anyone in power. It is dissected, criticized, scorned … and alternatively, exalted and praised.
Are we really like this?
When it comes to a number of topics, the answer is no.
In late May, the Washington Post printed a guest column by Jim McLaughlin and Tom Z. Freedman, strategists and pollsters respectively for Republicans and Democrats.
They wrote:
“We’ve been friends for more than 30 years and political opponents in elections for the same amount of time. We’ve wondered whether our fellow Americans despair as much as we do about the great divides in our society.
“A poll we recently conducted suggests that people from all political backgrounds urgently want politicians to try to heal the divisions in this country, even as they worry about whether it i...