Living amongst/ with those who don’t wish to take care of themselves, family or community is packaged as living with ‘Diversity’.

I experienced this while in Santa Barbara for Grad School. CA is one of the few states that accept college credits moer than 7 years old.

The Laissez-faire stance on gangs, public education run amock (ranked 47th in the country.. ahead only of NV AZ and MS) and provided to illegals, as well as Section 8 housing, welfare/food stamps, WiC, in-state tuition, affirmative action, unlicensed/uninsured/ inexperienced illegal folks driving on our highways, state funded celebrations where SB and other big cities in CA can anticipate at least 1 homicide.

UCSB has 1 American History course. It has 5 dozen, 60 – Latino History, Culture and other associated classes available. all in the name of ‘diversity’, right?

The population largely effected by this indifference to citizenship, rule of law was the black communities. Though today, collectively, it’s everyone.

This horrible incident in Richmond (or ‘South-South Oakland’), CA recently is further proof of that state’s elected officials, media breakdown and twisting the true meaning of ‘Diversity’ and ‘empathy’ and combining the two. With CA preparing to release +22,000 inmates due to overcrowding, this epidemic is widespread and moving forward, all in the name of ‘Progressives’ or ‘Moderates’. What a sickened, convoluted group-think mentality many have become..

BTW, with the 300 La Familia members arrested recently, this disgusting incident in Richmond, CA, 287g getting implemented moreso across the country.. where’s the ramblings of that journalist with the utmost ‘Integrity’, Ruben Navarette? – crickets chirping.

Even Navarette knows it’s unfathomable to speak of ‘Amnesty’. What a *urd.

Fortunately it is tanking big time. Half of our muslim population are illiterate peasants from Pakistani villages. The socialists hate Labours sell out on Iraq.

Result? Falling circulation.

And as most of the ad revenue is Public Service recruitment with touted Conservative incomer, Cameron planning a huge swathe of cuts that will wither to a fraction of present income.

Result? Financial ruin.

sure the media was always polarized …ansd so has been the population.

there is a difference here since the early presidents never intended to redistribute wealth and destroy the economy of their young country.

so while in one aspect things are similar they are not the same and the end result is much different.

Consider, if you will the Presidential Election of 1796, the first truly contested election in America (since President Washington had been all but unanimously elected in the first two).

By that time, we already had the start of the current two-party system: The Federalists (which could be considered the forerunners of the modern Republicans), and the Democratic-Republicans (likewise, the forerunners of the modern Democrats).

Each party had its own newspapers (the mass media of that era) and each side was very partisan. Each side had numerous newspapers, but two of the most notorious were the Gazette of the United States and the National Gazette. The National Gazette was Democratic-Republican and supported Jefferson, and Jefferson–who, prior to the election, was serving as Secretary of State–even gave the editor a cushy State Department job that left him plenty of time to publish the paper. The rival Gazette of the United States was largely Federalist, with Alexander Hamilton writing frequent articles.

Anyway, the point of all this is that a much more fragile America survived that era of partisan media; I daresay that we’ll survive the current atmosphere as well. In fact, it’s arguable that such partisanship is part of our national media DNA, since it goes back so far in history.