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I honestly don’t know how someone can say cultural issues don’t tear us apart. Because why? It’s not literal like the civil war? The battles going on in my Facebook and twitter feeds say otherwise.
People get fired and have their livelihoods destroyed over these cultural issues. Friendships are dissolved and families stop talking to each other over these cultural issues. That’s what “tearing us apart” means. The usage is valid.
There’s a pitched battle between two incompatible worldviews going on: Leftism vs non-Leftism. When people are divided into camps over worldviews, can you really call it tribalism? People freaked out over Kaepernick because (a) the Left/Right symbolism was plain as day, and (b) punishing the NFL and forcing them to knock off all that nonsense was something people could actually do, as opposed to influencing whether we bomb Remotistan or send troops to the middle of nowhere.
Furthermore, prior to the civil war, the ideological battle between the two camps had been red-hot for decades before it came to actual war. We are in a “cold” civil war, but that doesn’t make it any less rancorous and divisive of any less deserving of the rubric “tearing us apart.”
Third and worst Trump insult to the military: that they would commit war crimes if he told them to attack ISIS families.