And bad. The divide in America boils down to a lack of shared values. Our value/belief system is predicated in a belief in God. God is at the top of the hierarchy and all beliefs should trace to the top of the hierarchy. Western Civilization is also predicated on this hierarchy.
Every attempt at socialism/communism share a common objective: eliminate God and replace God with the state. At a spiritual level, that is always doomed to failure. Unfortunately the failure always occurs after mass atrocities against the people. The 20th century is filled with examples. I am loathed to the idea that Nietzsche was right, “God is dead, and we killed him.”
‘Our value/belief system is predicated in a belief in God’
our belief system, as stipulated in the U.S. constitution, is predicated upon the principle of fervent anti-monarchism; our founding document does not mention God, it cites the Deist concept of Creator, an entity premised upon formulation, but not interference, with the progress of its creation...we can debate the comparative values of Deist vs Theist all day long, but we cannot debate which of the systems our country is built upon...
in any event, one could logically argue that accepting God’s creation of the world and its inhabitants, it follows that He would not favor one principle of human governance over another; if He created all of us, He loves all of us, capitalist, communist, freemen or facist, regardless of all our various warts and follies...