It's pretty clear that getting either the far lefty or far righty types to set aside politics isn't going to happen.
They are not capable. They are not reasonable I really think that people who have become polarized like this lower their IQ. These people are destroying the U.S.
As others have pointed out, the similarity to cultlike thinking is undeniable and scary.
Regarding guns, I have quite a few friends who are greenie, granola eating scientist types. I've started asking them if they have guns. So far I've been shocked, every one of the lefties so far has said that they have a gun. In fact, the most Trump hating unabashed socialist friend has a sniper rifle (I can't wait for some moron to try to make me define "sniper rifle", well dipshit, all I know is that's what the SNIPER called it!) because he was a sniper in the Marines during Desert Storm. None of these people want to ban guns.
On the other side, I have Trump voting, gun collecting friends. One of these friends (an NRA member who was buying an AR15 every few months during the Obama presidency (yeah he can afford that)), wanted to take me shooting with him but didn't want to take me to a local shooting range because, "when you see all the dumb fucks there who don't know how to handle a gun safely it might turn you into an anti gun guy."
Often, I think the reasonable people in these issues get drowned out by the brainwashed blowhards on either end of the spectrum. I'm really sick of it.
