Media Civil War

The recurring theme in my blog has been the two party system and how flawed I feel it is. What I would like to do here is give a comparison and see what everyone thinks about it. Last semester I took a course on the politics of developing areas and we studied many war torn countries and the root of their conflicts. Not surprisingly most all of these struggles are ethnic related. To best explore these ethnic conflicts we divided countries into three groups according to ethnic diversity. The three groups are multi-ethnic, bi-ethnic and single ethnic. One might assume that the countries with the most internal conflicts would be the multi-ethnic countries but this is not the case. Most of the time citizens of a multi-ethnic country learn how to put their differences aside and develop a strong sense of nationalism. A perfect example of a multi-ethnic country is the U.S. The countries where we see the most civil-conflict are the ones that are bi-ethnic. In countries where there are only two major ethnic groups there is almost always civil conflict. An example of this is the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda. I would like to compare this to politics. To me it seems that the tension between republicans and democrats is constantly growing and is fueled largely by the media. My previous blog about fox attacking Obama is a perfect example of this. It seems as though our media is the source for a potential political civil war. The key to civil peace in a country is nationalism, which brings countries together to accomplish great things. How can our media come together and learn how to get passed this two party system. I am tired of turning on CNN and listen to them bash republicans and turning on FOX to them ripping democrats. Is there any hope for this to end or are we doomed to an endless media and political civil war….let me know if you have any thoughts on this.