Creating the Divide, A Strategy for Defeat

I was going through the news today looking for interesting articles to bring to your attention. But something else caught my eye. A underlining theme that is the true elephant in the room. The increasing social and political divide in America.  

Me and some of my college buddies from time to time go down to the bars get a pint or two and talk politics to our hearts content.  One of the re-appearing topics are those based on harsh black and white comparisons. Left vs the Right, Republican Vs Democratic, Liberal vs Conservative, and any other political identifying label you can think off. This idea really hit home for me when one of my hardcore right wing friends in the middle of rant stated ;"You know why hey label you? So they can break you down and smother your voice"
At the time this idea seemed a little out in left felt for me, but after i let it sink in i came to see  truth in that statement. In the military they say "A force divided is a force easily destroy', that truth is no different in the political realm.

With the election in Washington state being as close of a race as it is, every vote counts and in groups, block votes hold much power. The youth vote or college vote is by far one of the most divided groups, and because of that fact the voices of the youth hold very little power. Which in turn explains why very few campaigning officials really take the concerns of college student into account during the election seasons. So if we really want change for our government, we have to learn to work with groups and people that are "different" then ourselves. We have to learn to work with people and candidates that we don't agree with 100%.  We have to find ways to get pass the dividing factors that created so much of the voter apathy in our lives and on our campuses. The college vote could decide the fate of this election, and in turn our nation. All we have to do is to get enough of us together have our voice heard.