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Not to get too off topic, but I have a hard time blaming the left for the current political divide in the United States. Saying that someone who pushes leftwards is bad for American politics because they're not closer to the "center" seems like promoting a false equivalence.

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I agree, and I don't blame the left as much as I blame the right. I do however think that exacerbating the divide is a bad thing.

But anything but going closer to the Right is "exacerbating the divide."

If you don't think both sides play a part in the precipitous spike in polarizing political discourse, then frankly you are ignorant.

Uhh. One side saying "kids shouldn't take six figures of debt to go to the college we've collectively insisted they need to go to" and the other saying "blood and soil, Jews will not replace us" are not the same thing, yo.

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