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Hi there !
I don ‘t know if I’m in the right section to post this, but following the US 2012 Election is a good illustration of the question I wanted to ask.
As an European, I have always been fascinated by The USA. Having visited it twice, I was charmed by the place and the people there. Can’t wait to go back once my kids start walking and saying more than ‘bla buh boh’…
Looking at the passionate (to say the least) posts here, I have a serious question: is the polarization I see here generalized in the population? I know that the interwebs loop tends to skew a bit the impression, but it seems that for each side, the other side winning an election would mean an absolute end-of-the-world catastrophe of biblical proportion! Each candidate is, for the other side, the hypothetical offspring of Cruella deVille and Sauron (let’s see if someone get the reference!). And I haven’t seen any of the TV ads that looks …interesting to put it mildly.
Taking my personal case as an example, I generally vote to the right, and am married to an absolute left-leaning woman. We sometimes playfully ‘insults’ ourselves with “nanny state lover” and “you filfthy greedy bastard who only care for the rich!”. I am an atheist and my wife is catholic. We sometimes have heated discussion during election time, but otherwise we get along just fine. Would it be possible in the USA?
So is the general US population a good reflect of what I see here or am I dead wrong?
I don ‘t know if I’m in the right section to post this, but following the US 2012 Election is a good illustration of the question I wanted to ask.
As an European, I have always been fascinated by The USA. Having visited it twice, I was charmed by the place and the people there. Can’t wait to go back once my kids start walking and saying more than ‘bla buh boh’…
Looking at the passionate (to say the least) posts here, I have a serious question: is the polarization I see here generalized in the population? I know that the interwebs loop tends to skew a bit the impression, but it seems that for each side, the other side winning an election would mean an absolute end-of-the-world catastrophe of biblical proportion! Each candidate is, for the other side, the hypothetical offspring of Cruella deVille and Sauron (let’s see if someone get the reference!). And I haven’t seen any of the TV ads that looks …interesting to put it mildly.
Taking my personal case as an example, I generally vote to the right, and am married to an absolute left-leaning woman. We sometimes playfully ‘insults’ ourselves with “nanny state lover” and “you filfthy greedy bastard who only care for the rich!”. I am an atheist and my wife is catholic. We sometimes have heated discussion during election time, but otherwise we get along just fine. Would it be possible in the USA?
So is the general US population a good reflect of what I see here or am I dead wrong?