[mercy]

Hillarious! You creative thing you.

I think the Founding Fathers pulled it together because they stuck their necks fo far out it was either unify or die.

After they published the Declaration they could not turn back. PLUS it was a wonderful dream and they managed to sell it to enough tough minded individualists that they succeeded.

However it's been coming apart ever since. You might even say we are more civilised in our disagreement now than in 1776. Just adk Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Bur what their thoughts are NOW on political debate.

[illstillbe]

You make good points, my friend ... as usual. *grins*