Ceeboo wrote:It's not an external enemy that is preventing America to unite (neither the one you suggest here or any other external enemy on planet earth, past or present). It is, without question, an unbridgeable divide that consists of American citizens alone.
We are not overcome by an external enemy. Not the one you suggest. Nor any any other that you haven't suggested. We have been overcome by a gaping divide amongst ourselves. It is internal.
Don't be too discouraged, Ceeboo. There are times in the life of a nation when deep and bitter division is a sign of good things to come.
Just imagine, for instance, that at the time when the US was split between abolitionists and slavers someone had said 'can't we all get along together?' The right and patriotic answer would have been 'No. Human decency cannot be reconciled with a system in which white human beings have the right to own black human beings. There can be no reconciliation between good and evil.' And in the long run it is good that people felt that way, and that the side won that wanted to free the enslaved black people.
Do you think there is a basic conflict of principle between Trump voters and the opposition? if, so, then now you have to work out who is on the right side. Who do you think that is, on the whole? Or do you think the conflict is illusory?
Please tell us.