“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
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These days I perpetually find myself questioning which will prove more destructive to America, the pandemic, or its fast approaching aftermath – or perhaps this was the path we were on all along and the virus just provided the accelerant.
Every day seems to bring another instance of violence perpetrated on Americans by Americans. As news of each incident spreads, it seems we quickly scan available information to determine the race of both the perpetrator and the victim, even before we process circumstances. It’s clear that we are a society in pain, but one that can’t get past the symptoms to find the cure.
The pandemic provided the perfect means to identify individual camps, better than putting on blue shirts or brown shirts. Masks vs anti-maskers. Vaccines vs anti-vaccine. Us vs Them. Now more than ever we primarily self-identify with sub-groups than we do as American’s.
Yesterday I heard a conservative commentator proudly profess that all of his liberal friends had stopped talking to him as if it was something to celebrate instead of mourn. Many of my liberal friends have expressed similar sentiments on social media as if a household can coexist when CONTINUE READING: TOWARDS A MORE PERFECT UNION – Dad Gone Wild