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Non-American here: are tensions, on average, really that high? I get that when there's a Trump rally right next to a Hillary Clinton one, and a BLM/ALM party ne

• chucksta 5y ago
  It's definitely a regional thing, but its been my experience not really. But there is undeniably growing resentment and possibility that transaction you used as an example could be less pleasant then it used to be. It's probably safe to say on average yes, by a lot? No. People aren't throwing hands in the street over normal discourse.
• Ancapistani 5y ago
  > But if I'm a random nice guy driving through, dunno, Trumpland, in an electric car, I stop off somewhere and causally drop in that I'm voting Democratic, not keen on guns, but hey we're all Americans and that's great... will this already peeve people off? I live in an extremely red area - if you did that here, you’d probably not get very good service from the business where you are, but you wouldn’t be in _danger_. > I'd like to imagine radical postures, present in every country, are rare enough that they won't spark a wholesale civil war/unrest. Ah, but that’s the root of the problem we’re facing, at least as far as I can tell. Each side sees the other as “radical extremists”. The few centrists are pretty much ignored.