Divided we stand?

[Vertnut]

I've been around longer than most on this board. My first presidential election to vote in was Reagan/Carter (1980). Carter was bad. Real bad. The worst. Until this guy. Reagan inherited a MUCH worse economic picture from Carter, than Barry did. 10% unemployment, double-digit inflation, and a foreign policy principal that was cowardly and disgusting. The difference was that the citizens of the country knew it, and despised him for it. It resulted in a 489/49 (about) electoral college vote. Of course half of the country wasn't relying on the government to make ends meet, either, and foreign policy mattered (it doesn't now). As much as the administration wants you to think we have a "racial divide", or a "have vs. have not" split, it's more of "givers" and "takers", with the country being half and half. Of course, this is only one man's opinion.

[Sean88gt]

I've never seen it this bad.

[Jester]

If you are talking about more recent times, then Carter really had a lot of divided and pissed off people. Atleast they were smart enough to only give him one term.

[Jester]

Civil War.

[Ruffdaddy]

To all of the older members out there, have there been previous times that are this divided over all fronts in the past? I feel like things have gotten really bad and our POTUS is dead set on creatin more division between the parties though his comments to the media and unwillingness to negotiate. Bit maybe it's just because I've paid more and more attention over the years.