http://politix.topix.com/homepage/4308/results
This link is aggravating. It outlines, unintentionally, a major issue in American politics today: the tendency to blame opposite groups for our issues. This specifically rises when you ask people, as did this question, why America is so divided. This survey, showing a rhetoric that's echoed throughout opinion articles nationwide, shows Americans' tendency to blame "the big guys": Obama, Bush, the Democrats, the Republicans, etc.
It's amazing how, instead of looking for answers and solutions, ways to unite America, people are so willing to just throw the blame on someone: Bush, Obama, liberals, conservatives, the media. It's ridiculous. You can't just blame a group and cross your fingers that suddenly the issue will go away. You've got to look for a solution: blaming liberals and conservatives and Obama for America's polarization isn't going to unite us, just divide us more. We've got to be working, instead, to find solutions, to find ways to unite Americans once again by the things we all most value.
It's fourth grade group project logic: you're behind, the teacher shows up, and you and your partners point fingers at each other. The teacher, most likely, will laugh at you and encourage you to come up with a plan for your solution, because blaming one another, of course, isn't going to solve it. Why can't we be more mature than fourth graders and look for a solution?
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