It is time to acknowledge the true peril we are facing.
America has a critically serious problem with political division, a problem that has been growing for decades but has gotten so very serious in recent months that it may well portend the eventual doom of our beloved nation.
The danger is real. It’s palpable. And if we can agree on that, let’s get down to brass tacks and let’s be courageous and start placing some blame where it belongs.
Let us name the names of the chief culprits.
Well, it damn sure isn’t our president, Donald J. Trump, the crotch-grabbing, wow-hairdo-wearing, orange bomb-thrower of New York.
Nor is it his vehement opposition, the Democrats, led by slimy Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York and Rep. Nancy Pelosi of the People’s Republic of California.
And it’s not Hillary, the completely-bereft-of-integrity queen of New York.
Rush Limbaugh? MSNBC News? No ... it’s none of them. They are all just symptoms, really, patsies for the real culprits.
And those real culprits are ...?
It’s us, man. You and me. The simple truth is we don’t know how to act anymore.
Our ability to engage in civil discourse has been stunted somehow, to the point where we are suddenly dumbstruck in our ability to perceive any opposing viewpoints as being even mildly worthy of respect.
Simply put, we have fostered an environment that has allowed us to be trapped in the divine splendor of our own ideologically superior views. And we blissfully wave bye-bye to the last vestiges of bipartisan anythingism.
Sadly, it seems increasingly likely that it is in this quality alone that we will truly be united together as fellow citizens for the very last time – in sharing the blame, one and all, left and right – for being so truly unworthy of the pluralistic republic we inherited.
Chet Ian F. Walter
Durango
