Politically Incorrect

     After reading fellow classmate Amber Quinn's recent blog about a situation in Arizona last week, I am almost ashamed at how I find this article as amusing as she does.  While it is appalling - a woman ran over her husband and father of her unborn child simply because he did not vote - I first heard the story on morning radio, where the DJs were cracking jokes about the story the entire time.  While the individual situation is upsetting ( the man is currently in critical condition and his wife is facing hard jail time) the truly terrible part is what this country is coming to.  Politics in America has been reduced to a contentious and divisive screaming match where political discourse is no longer an opportunity to share ideas but an excuse to behave selfish and erratic.
     During the election I read an article about how many people (myself included) were having to block and even unfriend people on Facebook for their constant political posts.  I even heard of people refusing to speak to certain family members based on their political standpoint.  During the months of September and October political bickering reached such a fervent boiling point that it consumed nearly every conversation on the airwaves and our personal lives.  Suddenly every exchange of dialogue I encountered was such a heated disagreeable debate that I opted to avoid conversations altogether.
       Things did not get much better after the election.  Once again Facebook was lit up with hateful messages, the spiteful conversations took place between sore losers and gloating winners, and each half of the country blamed the other half for ruining this nation.  In at least one case, someone tried to murder their own spouse.  Over an election.
     Frankly, I don't see enough difference between Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney to make that big of a deal over anything.  Sometimes I feel all of this political hullabaloo is just an excuse for some people to act immature and irrational.  Politics gives people a scapegoat to blame their problems on, an enemy to project their anger towards, and a justification for them to be angry.  By serving as a vent for people's personal problems, politics has a way of bringing out the worst in us.