Most of the voters in the U.S. are independents; not liberals (Democrats) or conservatives (Republicans). However most of the regular viewing audiences during prime time of cable news networks tend to be non-independents either in the Democratic camp (CNN/MSNBC) or Republican camp (FOX). Are there more registered Democrats or Republicans in the U.S.? There are at least 12 million more registered Democrats than Republicans in the U.S. I tend to see more CNN than other news networks. Simply because it is on in airports, hotels, etc. I do not watch the prime time nonsense on any of these networks.
You feel the polarization a lot more now because you lean left and now the left has lost their minds over the Hillary ordeal. Before you guys were happy and we were mad. Now you're mad and we're smiling (well, we're not angry).
I don't lean left it is just easier for you to set up an argument you can defeat by labelling. Why are you defending against a fantasy attack I never made? The polarization was not as bad as it is now. Social media and the cable news networks did not have the position they occupy in politics they do now 10 years ago. The 2008 election was not about social media and cable news the way it is now. There were no issues with Facebook and Twitter like there is now. FB and Twitter were still babies in 2008. Why can't you look at that objectively without you feeling you are being personally attacked. 2008 was not the same election in the media the way 2016 was. Dom Lemon's show really started in 2014 Erin Burnett 2011 Jake Tapper 2013 Tucker Carlson started in 2016 Hannity started in 2009 INgraham in 2017 Am I making this up? O 'Reilly was the only one who was around way before this and he killed his own career. The cable news network circus we know was not around 10 years ago neither was FB or Twitter used the same way. I am just citing facts, not making comments against conservative TV you need to defend for some weird reason.
First of all, you can say you don't lean left - but those of us here who lean right (and have no problem admitting we do so) would classify you as such. But regardless, this is irrelevant. I'm not trying to defend against some fantasy attack, I don't even know what you mean by that. I would agree with you that it is more polarized now than before, but my point was that the left was in nirvana for the 8 years under Obama while the right loathed the President the entire time. Back then, people on the right were commenting regularly how divisive politics had become. Now that Hillary lost, the left seems unable to reconcile the fact that the President is Trump and has been shrieking day after day about it, with all the ways Orange man is bad. This, of course, leads those on the right to dig in. The result is people pointing out issues with folks on "the other team" rather than focusing on issues that need to be fixed. That's all.
No lie there. Valerie Jarrett: I still haven’t accepted Trump is president https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/valerie-jarrett-i-still-havent-accepted-trump-is-president