Are they in reality???

I participate in Quora. It’s a website where people ask and answer questions — all sorts of questions. I love reading the questions that people ask about politics and religion, among other subjects. Some of them are quite funny. Some questions are clearly leading questions — not really interested in answers, but trying to make their points. Other questions make no sense and leave me scratching my head.

I came across a question yesterday that dealt with politics. It was asking if a certain political party has lost touch with reality. I was curious about the answers that followed. The question was obviously leading as the questioner had clearly made up their mind in the way they asked the question.

There was a range of answers — some said definitely yes, and others said definitively no. There was no in between. Usually the no answers were quick to point out how the other party had lost touch with reality.

After reading a few of these answers and contemplating the situation, I wrote my own answer:

“It seems to me that as a deeply divided nation (that has been trending this way for decades, maybe even since the founding of the nation), that we are moving into alternate realities in which each side sees the other as not just opponents, but the personification of all that is evil and destructive. Both sides use the English language, but their definition are not the same and so left and right are actually speaking two different languages and living in two very unrelated realities, with different…