The Great Polarization Divide...

...is really nothing more than the current incarnation of the culture wars of the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, and of course- the Oughts. Which up until Obama got himself elected meant the Age of the Cheney-Bush-Neocon Nutjob Ascendancy that started with the stealing of the 2000 Presidential election from the guy who won the popular vote and Florida but who stepped aside politely because, hey, that's what mainstream Democrats do: they wimp out in the face of right wing extremist bluster because in the final analysis they don't want to believe that the system they do so reasonably well themselves in could be as corrupted and in need of radical overhaul as it is. That, and the way that corruption works is that they get their share and the Right wing reactionary zealots get theirs and if our good Nation and Democracy itself are in peril then hey, we'd better not point that out too stridently or we might be schmeared as un-American commie socialists and lose our slice of that juicy and ever more corrupted pie.