I agree. We must note a majority of voters gave us this but you have to include those Americans who do not vote either way. They contributed too. I know we are not part of the problem but still see America as one country and one people. But yes, we are past that now for the time being. We are divided.
“I agree. We must note a majority of voters gave us this but you have to include those Americans who do not vote either way. They contributed too. I know we are not part of the problem but still see America as one country and one people. But yes, we are past that now for the time being. We are divided.”
There was a time when I was younger and not far from school that I saw America as one country and one people, as we were taught to in school. But as the years go by with each election it seems increasingly clear that nothing could be further from the truth.
How can one people be so diametrically apposed to each-other and at war with one-anthers individual & regional rights? For that matter how can one country have such sharp regional & cultural differences in the first place?
One can speak any lie he or she likes, but you can’t change the state of facts. If america is one people & one land then we are perhaps the most self-destructively Schizophrenic people & land in North America if not the world.
I see no moral justification in insisting that a population endure the misery of continuing to live such a lie. If the propose of government is to protect the (inherently individual) rights of the people. Our present government has not only failed but become destructive to that end.
If the propose of a union is to enhance the happiness of a people. Our union has not only failed but become destructive to that end as well.
At some point you got to recognize that we can’t be happy together, that our goals & ideas are simply too incomparable to create a mutually beneficial compromise under this extent of (union)government.
I would say that we have grown apart, but my study of history would only show that statement to be no more true than the other about being one people. Americans have never been one people, we were not founded that way, and we never existed that way. At least not by the modern standard of today. Our forefathers felt such an idea to be madness, it was Lincoln who insisted upon it with the sword nothing more. But a sword can only bond men together as prisoners in chains, it cannot in its only available action, forcefully suppression of their free will, make them one.