Sabresfansince1980 wrote:
It's a sign of how politics is polarizing society. Clinton didn't have a whole lot of adversity during his tenure so people didn't get too bent about anything while things were good. 9/11 and a bad economy started about six years of Bush bashing. Right or wrong that bent a lot of people out of shape and against each other...to the point that any savy speaking guy with about zero experience in office could get elected on a "I'm not Bush" platform.
So now we see a big swing from right to left, but along with it a LOT of bent feelings and rhetoric while the economy still stinks. Tea party, occupy, religious fanatic, socialist, blah, blah. When two sides get really pissed off, they dig in deep and go for the extreme. Not just for what they think they believe in, but to stick it hard at the other side.
People think Santorum is such an extremist and can't believe how he gets support? Well you're finding out how a lot of people felt about Obama leading up to his election, just the opposite perspective. It doesn't make it right, it just shows how our political structure is failing us. Until voters truly get motivated under a sense of real urgency to change things, we'll just keep going through the downward spiral. Divided we fall...it's only a matter of time.
I think there's a false equivalency there.
The far right was against Obama because he was a black, socialist, muslim from Kenya who wanted to take all their money and guns while outlawing Christianity. Aside from him being black, it was all false.
The far left is against Santorum because he wants to ignore the separation of church and state, take away rights from women, and run the country on evangelist Christian values. This is all true.
The two situations are completely different.