America has withstood and succeeded a lot throughout its short life. We won two world wars, defeated multiple health crises, fended off communism, fought and won a space race, been exposed to the evils of terrorism, and much much more. Despite the extreme hardship America always stood strong as one (other than a rebellious southern phase). Our country has gone through a lot worse than what we are going through now, yet we have never been so divided. We can’t agree on simple political issues, instead of states unifying under the federal government, they are banning against each other, and the presidency has been elevated to a temporary monarch in which the president does as much as they can in their small 4-year window just for it all to be undone by the next president.
The left is to blame.
It wasn’t too long ago that politics was just a quick conversation on thanksgiving or Christmas. Now it plagues our lives. One’s identity is molded by who they vote for. This makes perfect sense though. As American citizens our beliefs have become so polar and so immersed in culture it undoubtedly defines us. But this still doesn’t answer why we have become so divided in the first place?
We are not the only country that has had its fair share of disagreements. It’s common for there to be inner fights and uprisings, but it can be easily stopped with a little iron fisting and suppression. Well, that isn’t necessarily a practice of American liberty. We needed something else that could hold the American people together. For us, it is a common belief. A philosophy you could say. America is a good place and our goal should be to preserve what makes it great. Our patriotism has strengthened our nation. Even during our most divisive times, such as the beginning of the cold war, the general belief was that we lived in a good place and we were better than our enemies.
At some point in our history, this belief began to fade. We no longer value American pride. Parents are not sure if they should teach their children that the U.S. is fundamentally good. This shift in philosophy is now leading to a rapid division in our once patriotic country. If we no longer have even one thing to agree on and one thing to unify under how is it that we are the post to work together. What is it that we are working for, if not for the country? Obviously, there is no debate that the Left is to blame. Their radical supporters openly hate America. The politicians they elect support un-American laws and bills that ignore our founding principles. They may not say they hate America yet they want to completely change the things that made it so great. The Democrat’s rapid movement away from what we at one time agreed on makes us wonder what we even elect our politicians to do. Do we take the conservative route of preserving what we have made, or the progressive one of completely flipping it on its face with socialist, authoritarian ideas? And that is the question that has allowed for such disagreement.
I believe a majority of people would agree that a physical split within the union could have some serious drawbacks. Whether it could work is a question for another day, but the best course of action would be a complete reunification. The problem is in other times of great division, like after the civil war, we had something to work our way up to. A greater America. But now a majority of the left wants to build back to something completely new (or at the minimum something that ignores American values), while conservatives like what we had.
So long as the Democrats disagree with the fundamental value that America is a great place built on revolutionary ideas of liberty, we will continue to move further apart. And America will split.
