Tennessee has been thrust into the spotlight as its divisive politics become national news. (Politico)

American politics have turned very very nasty and it has resulted in a 0 sum game with any win heralded as burying the other side and ‘showing them who is boss’. That is plying out in the Volunteer State to national amazement and disgust at the state of discourse and governance in America. Everything of course is amplified 100 fold on social media to the point of drowning out all other voices of debate that may work for some level of harmony. The politics of urban v. rural are now at war in America’s state houses and Tennessee is the latest flare up be put on blast with surely many more to come.