I'm not talking only about contemporary politics, I'm talking about the entire history of the United States from Adams and Hamilton versus Jefferson, to the murderous Andrew Jackson, to the bogus "creation" of William Henry Harrison, to Lincoln's minority victory in 1860, to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, to Gilded Age politics, to the multiple defeats of William Jennings Bryan and beyond. It has always been pretty much like this. Populism, state's rights movements, left, right, Federalist, Whig, Democrat-Republican, Free Soil, Free silver, USG incompetence, monopolistic corruption, TR quasi-dictatorship, WW arrogance, FDR socialism, just wars, unjust wars. The era we are living in now only looks scary to those who don't understand our history. About the only glaring difference I see between now and our past is a staggering national debt and an unhealthy reliance on foreign oil.