Over the past several decades (at least three), the American political and social landscape has become more radicalized in its nature. Right down to the simple things are causing people to take radical stances. I mean right down to a simple, stupid statement. If one of the last two Presidents of the United States pointed at a barn, Bush said it was red, liberals would be screaming that the barn was not actually red, but some shade of it, like Vermilion. If Obama said the barn was Scarlett, conservatives would scream it was red. Pretty simple stuff right there. The damn barn is red, we don't need to fight over it for three weeks, develop some twisted conspiracies about how the barn was actually white, but someone painted it after the President said it was red.
