Conflictual or Conditoinal

Conflictual or Conditional

The U.S is often referred to as a melting pot due to it being home of a wide variety of races, religions, and religions. All these different backgrounds also bring many different viewpoints especially political ones. This causes us to be a divided nation between different people as well as cultures that can best be described as, conflictual Adding to the clashing of the differences in opinion are the opposing political parties.  

In George Washington's farewell address he advised the U.S citizens that it would be a grave mistake to form and break off into political parties.. However, no one listened since we have created two major opposing parties the Democrats and Republicans. These majors parties typically divide the population against each other. They largely differ in all viewpoints such as: taxes, military involvement, military spending, same sex marriage, gay rights, abortion, equality, and freedom. They oppose each other so much they are unable to even agree in Congress causing the government to shutdown on October 1, 2013 for 16 days. At the moment Congress can not even agree on a replacement health care program for Obamacare no matter the Republican party's attempts.

Not only are their differences between the beliefs of each parties, but how they even perceive each other. Democrats are more multicultural and believe to help lower class with more government action. However, they are seen as to have a huge ego from the conservatives. Conservatives can be described as traditional, focused on the upper class, and less government intervention. But, democrats perceive them as NASCAR loving, outdoorsy, racist people. These generalizations of each other also attribute to hostilities between both groups. How each group is and what they believe in add too many arguments to divide our country as a whole.