Today, as we find ourselves in the final stretch of an ugly presidential election, it’s hard not to contrast the pope’s hopeful vision that day with a coarse political culture that manages to blend the self-absorption of reality television, cynicism and ideological trench warfare.
Those we elect seem not only divided over specific policies, but shaped by radically different worldviews. A recent Washington Post poll in the battleground state of Virginia found that voters who support Hillary Clinton report they don’t know anyone who will vote for Donald Trump — and vice versa.
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