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I dunno, prob'ly a lot of people felt that way during the civil war.
The civil war was cut and dried. You had an opponent you could concentrate on.
This is just a homogenized disintegration of the republic. If we threw Trump out this afternoon, the whole thing would still be rotten to the core.
I personally don't think it was as cut and dried as you posit. Think of it this way: the causes of the Civil War existed at the time of our foundation, and it took 87 years for it to break out in a full-fledged war. And, the strife didn't end with the war and reconstruction - it was carried forward for over a century (Jim Crow, Civil Rights Acts...) and the scars are still readily apparent. I do agree it is generally more homogenized, but the same dividing lines between urban/industrialized and rural/agricultural still exist in virtually every State of the union.
We need a "coming together" as Americans and a re-dedication to the principles and values that informed our creation - Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness
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to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity
as it were.
1. This particular mess has been brewing since 1968. So 51 years. That's plenty of time.
2. Okay, but the right wing has to come together first.
