Growing Extremism

Sorry for the half-ass post - I just don't have the time right now.

But as funny as it is to go to all of our friends and say "Wow, did you hear this crazy-ass shit that the Texas Governor implied the other day?" it's just as important not to underestimate the long-run effects of the bitter partisan divide that is growing stonger everyday.

Something like a secession or a civil war is certainly unlikely, nearly to the point of being negligible, but you've got an angry and motivated (if not informed) populous, a minority party without a good strong leader or message (which is now pretty extreme as well, thanks to 2008's decimation of the moderates) and an economy in epic (-ly ununderstandable?) shambles. Not to mention the fringe extremist, yet still relatively common (10%?) view that we elected a Black Arab Communist Socialist Muslim Nazi for president.