180°

I watch the news. There I admitted it. With all of the screaming and accusations going on today, I came to realization that it was important to understand not only the sides that I feel are right, but also have an understanding of the feelings that people across from me have, and why they have them.

To do this, I decided to start watching Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. The first moments of watching Fox and MSNBC made meel feel both uncomfortable and queezy. Uncomfortable in the fact that somebody might see me, queezy in the fact that all around us, people view these pundits' opinions as actual facts. Glenn Beck should really be ashamed of himself.

So many questions can often be solved by the most simplistic of solutions. I began to think of something I learned in 8th grade science. My teacher had asked us what percent of a sphere can we see with our naked eye. I thought for a while, and offered my answer "half". Knowing now that half isn't a percentage, that was wrong... but I had the right idea. My brother corrected me later, saying that would only be true if I had one eye, but I digress.

The way I see it is that people are only able to see half of the circle at any given time. True you can try give them a glimpse by putting up mirror, but then they are always going to see your side backwards. So my question for the millions of people on each side of the fight is, how do you enable them to see the other side, and eventually make them want to walk around?