What unites us? Definitely not race or religion. Not even “freedom”. To the right, the right to own guns is freedom. To the left, the right to an abortion is freedom. To both sides, freedom also means freedom from opposing viewpoints apparently. Nobody agrees on what freedom is anymore despite it being the founding ethos of this country. They don’t even agree on the whether people, or which people should have the right to free speech. Basically everything that I like is freedom, everything I don’t like is dictatorship. Everybody belongs to a cult, the MAGA cult or the woke cult, as the other side calls it.

Distaste of the “establishment”? You can say that, a left-wing anti-establishmenter and a right-wing one may sound similar in that regard, but both of them want vastly different things which, if expressed, could easily lead to a physical altercation between them. They take on the “establishment” in both parties and then when they take control, the vastly different things they want lead the nation on the course to civil war. Even that p*do had accusations of who was with him flying around.

I don’t put much stock into anyone saying they want unity. It’s not possible. The divisions between Americans run so deep that any call for unity will ring hollow.

After this election there will be a Troubles that lasts for many, many decades. Many people genuinely believe that there will not be a fair 2028 election. I won’t judge the merits of this belief. But this is a far more powerful motivator than BLM in 2020, and that brought out millions of people to protest. After November they will be one man’s terrorist and another man’s freedom fighter. Millions of lives will be wiped out and people will either have to agree to something to stop the bleeding or fight until the last Democrat/Republican or until their total victory against the other side.

I don’t really think about national divorce, but some of the more heated political debates that I see online makes me think seriously about the question of whether those petty and ugly arguments would exist if we just went our own ways, did away with the central government maybe maintaining economic and currency relations and the (maybe) free movement of people.