Made2Obey
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It's true that we had issues in this country before Roe v Wade, but that case seemed to be the trigger for everyone in the country taking one side or another. The issue of gun control also added greatly to our current schism. Race wasn't one of the big issues or Obama never would have been elected. There isn't enough minority vote to have elected Obama without considerable white vote. However, Obama's term in office ended up adding to the split, not because whites hated having a black president, (they re-elected him after all) but because he raised black expectations and then never did much to fulfill that promise. It's significant that BLM appeared during his presidency. But the main issue is still abortion. It has become such a hot button issue that no politician will even address it publicly today, yet in the over 4 decades since that ruling it has been challenged over and over in courts and local legislation. Gun control is the other big issue that virtually everyone has taken a side on. Personally, I see it like this, abortion is how the left kills, and guns are how the right kills. They should just agree that each can have their own way of killing and that each side will quit trying to stop the other from their chosen method of killing. Then we might actually begin working together again as a country and actually solve some of the other pressing issues such as race and immigration and healthcare, etc.
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