The real issue with US politics at the moment is the divisive, uber-partisan, and all encompassing nature of how we see each other. We don't look at someone wi

The real issue with US politics at the moment is the divisive, uber-partisan, and all encompassing nature of how we see each other. We don't look at someone with a different political viewpoint as a fellow American that we disagree with, we see that person as an enemy who poses an existential threat to our way of life. To a hardcore left wing progressive - Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea have got nothing on the alt-right in our own country (and vice versa).