The nation itself is not what divides Americans, it is the policy of using identity politics and "tribalism", as they have come to exemplify and use it via projection, that has further distanced who and what the people of the United States are. Sadly, there
are those who are worthy of blame, namely the people who stand against what ideals the country represents as a
union. Their ideologies are incompatible with what others believe and by those virtues, they are willing to divide and cast off anyone, and I do mean anyone, who dares resist what they believe. Their "tolerance" is nothing but pure, unabashed intolerance that has become so deluded they believe it to be anything but that.
There is a war for the hearts and minds of the populace, just as there has always been, yet to date there has never been greater stakes. Unfortunately, it does not require a prophet or visionary to tell you that the conflict you are witnessing is going to need get worse before it can ever get better. The Far Left, the
actual Alt-Left, is being heralded as some force fighting for the freedom of the people when, if anything, they are the very tip of the spear driving people apart. To some extent I imagine everyone has seen or at least heard of being unfriended on social media because of political reasons, even "friends" and "family" going so far, with innumerable cases of them being based on
false information or a twisted narrative. By twisted narrative I mean the scenario you are seeing now where the President of the United States is being criticized for condemning
all forms of radical violence.
If you step back to allow that understanding to sink in for a moment and see what they are advocating instead, that only the "white nationalists" - let us call them what they were in this case as actual Nazis surrounded by a mixture of everything else under the sun on this earth - are to blame. Read the words and understand the choices they are making in them. White nationalists? Does it really matter what skin color they are? How about their gender? Their political alignment? Is nationalism
that evil of a word that it requires specific condemnation?
This is why you see people going so far as to divide themselves. In fact, they did so the moment they were certain the game was up. You might recall the "#Resist", "#NotMyPresident", and "He Will Not Divide Us" stories prior to the Russian narrative. Where did these all spawn from? Not from a grass roots origin, that I can assure you. Many of these were funded, blatantly so, to populate the media and manipulate information. Just the other night the Democratic National Committee was caught purchasing Twitter poll votes because they were going to lose. Multiple news outlets are
just now posting that the infamous "hack" was an inside operation, a "leak" as they became so fond to call everything. What I am saying by this, is that there are people actively and willfully creating greater division to assert more control and power in it.
It was not always quite this way. The United States has always been a nation that emphasized fierce independence - just review to yourself historically how states operated up until the 1900s and just how isolationist some of them were. Yet at the same time they viewed themselves as a collective, of which you might remember from a familiar saying that is all but extinct now; it was ingrained in many as mere children, despite how relatively recent it is to the nation and its history.
"I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic
for which it stands,
one Nation under God,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all."
For how short and concise the Pledge of Allegiance is, it speaks volumes to how people conceptualized America, even through its several revisions. You could throw out entire portions of it, but as a whole it reiterates "...
the United States of America...", "...
the Republic...", ".. .which
it stands...", "...
one Nation ...", "...
indivisible..." and "... with liberty and justice for
all." There is a pervasive message of unity and oneness in this small address. You can note it throughout American history - there was a war involving it as we are all familiar.
Yet, as we are today, you can see clearly the answer people go to is deceit and disinformation. They are so concerned about pushing their agendas that they are willing to sacrifice a nation's unity and cohesion. We live, as a society and even worldwide, as a far more accepting community in the First World, more than we ever even have been. Despite this, there are overt efforts to drive them apart in a crucial time period. At least half, perhaps now over one half of all American voters according to emerging data, are in support of the notion of "Make America Great Again"; it won a presidency, one that has continued to emphasize the American people over all else.
However, there are those who are still willing to fight that concept, that
all Americans should be working together for the United States. In fact, two extreme fringes of these groups showed up to have a brawl in Virginia. Out of the two of them, who received the most negative attention? I can assure you people spent more time arguing how Nazis are evil, because that was ever left to doubt, than focusing on the fact that instigators in both parties led to an escalation of force. This is ignoring the fact that they collectively represent less than a percent of the American population
together.
That is why you are seeing so much division. The story is twisted and has been for years. People are just now realizing it or falling prey to it.
