Politics. The Great Divider. If anything on this Earth can turn formerly friendly relations between people into mutual anger, contempt, hatred, and disgust, politics will do it.

The longer the campaign, the worse it gets. I think that American presidential election campaigns are probably the longest, most tortuously drawn-out campaigns in the entire world. They basically completely screw up the state of mind of the entire country for a whole year! That's not what I call an efficient way of running a nation.