Conflictual or Consensual?

The people in America today find many reasons, other than just politics, to argue with each other. This by far made my mind steer in the conflictual direction for American culture today. Conflictual culture is one in which different groups (or subcultures) clash with opposing beliefs and values. The main reason for all of the social and political debate in America is because of choosing between two types of people. 

While reading David Brooke's article the other day, I realized just how divided our United Nation is. According to Brooke, the US is split into reds and blues. The reds are the more patriotic, religious, and traditional while the blues are more modern and self-expressive. These were not their only differences though, and because there are so many differences between these people on whether who they are like or what they believe in, this all then causes argument.

In the crossfire video on CNN, anyone can easily immediately see the differences between the governor of Texas and the governor of Illinois. While the hosts is asking hem questions, they automatically disagree on everything from the very start. This relates back to a conflictual culture due to two groups disagreeing and head butting on the same topic. Next, in Obama's speech in 2004, bringing up many previous issues between the citizens of the US. Following that, he makes a very good point saying how it shouldn't matter if you were liberal, conservative, white, black, Asian, Latino, or gay, but that we are all American citizens and should all agree on what is best for our country. All of these helped me draw the conclusion of a cunflictual culture today