Polarized America

http://news.yahoo.com/50-50-nation-151916925--election.html

This link to a yahoo news article was listed under the headline as, 

How did America become so polarized? 

There is no answer to the question they ask in the body of the article, but the assertion rings true. America is polarized. The schism in our society has been steadily ingrained and acts as a blinder for the public. Perhaps it began in marketing, Coke vs. Pepsi, Ford vs. Chevy, ect. made us feel as if we must choose a side over the most mundane of non-issues. Most of our parents or grandparents were raised under the Democratic or Communist paranoia of the last century. This seems a divisive ploy that kept most of them from realizing they actually live in a Republic. The divide that exists today only serves to organize the masses against one another. Without such societal control-rods, surely Americans would not tolerate law enforcement using force against peaceful protest- An ideal we as a nation are founded on. Without such pointless division, we as a people, could not silently watch as our taxes were handed over to the very institutions that were already perpetrating fraud against the public. Each individual one of us must struggle to shed the bonds of prejudice, misled biases and media misinformation in order to glimpse what is actually occurring around us. Until that time the axiom, "a house divided against its self cannot stand," may be prudent to keep in mind.