@chaski Said
And to continue that thought:
Neither side give credit to the other side either.
Examples:
1. The economy has been getting better and unemployment dropping since late 2009/early 2010. This is a fact. Republicans used to acknowledge this and say
its the slowest recovery in history. OK... that might well be true; the slowest. None the less the economy was getting better for six (6) years.
Now Republicans act like Trump did it all.
That is BS.
Yes, Trump hasn't blown the economy, and in fact it has continued to get better. However, the reality is that the US economy is presently in its 2nd longest period of growth in history. The credit goes 1st to Obama and 2nd to Trump.
Its like have a baseball pitcher has 7 innings in a row... the team is winning for those 7 innings... then another pitcher comes in and has two good innings... so claims that he won the game. That isn't how baseball works. The 1st pitcher gets the win. Now if the 1st pitcher is losing the game and a 2nd pitcher comes in and wins the game, the 2nd pitcher gets the win... gets the credit.
Granted sports analogies only go so far, but the point remains.
Again, this sort of thing goes both ways. Neither side likes to admit that the other side did anything right.
So were left with the vast majority of Americans only blaming the other side, and never giving legitimate credit to the other side.... Americans are both
poor winners & poor losers.
Because it's simpler that way. It was true during World War II, when the Axis of Evil was strong and the Allied Powers painted them as scary inhuman monsters. It was true during the Cold War when the USSR and US waged propoganda wars against each other each calling the other evil. From ancient history, with it's demons and heathens, to the modern day, with it's own plethora of derogetory terms for every type of person and creed imaginable, we have always dehumnized our opponents, be they ideological or militaristic in nature.
Does the person who fights a war wish to know that their opponent has a family? Does the person who advocates the death penalty wish to know that the people on death row could have loved ones? Does the person who opposses socialism wish to hear of the family who was saved due to government intervention? Of course not. It's much simpler to believe your opponent is evil than it is to believe that they are similar.