Seriously though, this is a topic I thought about today. The USA is a country where the two reigning parties are so close together in the political spectrum, but where there is so much hatred between the two. I mean, if measured on a worldwide scale, then both the Democratic as the Republican party are on the right side of the political spectrum (right as in opposite of left). The Democrats are probably a bit more to the centre, but they're both right-leaning parties. However, they seem to divide the US population so much I sometimes wonder if the biggest danger to the USA isn't a terrorist attack, but a eternal distrust between the two reigning political parties.
Is this because of the 2-party structure? That you either have a Republican administration or a Democratic one, but that they are never forced to constantly work together and that there is at least a third party for cooperation/opposition (yes, I know there are shared initiatives, but they are far less than the issues where they vote along party lines).
So this national debate isn't that ridiculous, you only need to address the real cause of it and not the signs of who's lying or not.
C ya!
Marty