Wow.  You have really drunk the Kool Aid.  1. Progressives are the ones dividing the country.  Policies that want to take away guns, marginalize religion, kill the most innocent and use gays are being stood up to by conservatives.  The mass media gives unbalanced coverage to progressive positions.  Progressive positions need an activist Supreme Court to help move them along, and that is the wrong side of history.  As for the Birchers, they are of no consequence, so why bring them up?