I understand that bubble popping experience to some point, but I also believe that that potentially common sentiment is partially the result of MSM and social media at work and that that perception may not be entirely correct. These issues are brought to the front page of twitter, reddit, or CNN from all corners of the country and any singular instance can be in the spotlight. The problem is, I think we have too little ability to objectively quantify it. Every day you hear stories like this but it's sometimes anecdote after anecdote. And in a country of hundreds of millions, how much should one story, one insensitive view, mean to us (I have obviously veered away from Limbaugh here, a figure like him is understandably spotlighted)? And in a larger more overarching way I sense a purposefulness, constant but veiled, with which the country is being divided. Those two things, combined with the constant word-twisting done by the right and the left, feel really insidious to me.

My everyday life is insulated to some degree. And though that's true of all of us, still it feels completely disconnected from what I see on the internet. I don't want to be naive and in so doing ignore injustice, but I also don't want to buy in to this insidious narrative of the inhumanity of my opponents and hate those that people on either side are telling me to hate. I don't think that our society is going to hell and I absolutely refuse to think that people who disagree with me are demons incarnate, no matter how increasingly popular that sentiment is. (I'm not saying that that's how you view your opponents, specifically, I'm just pointing out that division among political opponents has increased and animosity is at a peak)