glad everyone isn’t taking that defeatest attitude.
“Newsflash. Ain’t nobody that can unite this country. And I mean nobody.”
Ah, somebody who actually looks around and understands what’s going on.
And you’re entirely correct. The 2012 election is _not_ going to “unite America”, no matter who gets the Republican nomination and no matter who wins. If anything, the upcoming election will further exacerbate the divisions between the two main factions in the nation.
On the one side are the “traditionalists” — the producers, the workers, the “don’t tread on me” folks. The old Scots-Irish vein of self-reliance lives on within them. They have an inherent mistrust of those who rule, and prefer that government leave them alone and stay out of their lives as much as possible.
On the other side are the “New Plantationers” — the takers and moochers. They will gladly take whatever government gives them, and willingly surrender their freedom in the process of doing so. For them, the government becomes “the new massa”, and the regulators and bureacrats the “new overseers” of the New Plantation. These are the people who really, truly believe that free cell phones should be a “civil right”.
There is no way to reconcile these two increasingly-divergent cohorts, and there can never again be a meeting of the minds between them. The two sides are simply too far apart, so much so as to lucidly illustrate the concept of being “diametrically opposed”.
Not good for the country’s future.
I hope Sarah Palin runs, and I hope she wins. She’s my first choice. But there will be no “landslide” this time. It will almost certainly be a hard, bitterly fought contest with a small margin of victory. Perhaps I’ll be proven wrong — I hope so.
Just sayin’....