Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Thoughts on the anniversary of D-Day

We've come a long way in 74 years.  This is what a united American nation did back then:


Decades of intentionally divisive politics have led us to where we now are, a disunited and fractured American empire:


There is no common identity, no shared polity.  There's only a winner-take-all sense of strife between groups who increasingly have little in common with each other.

More thoughts on this here.

5 comments:

  1. Gorges SmytheJune 6, 2018 at 3:00 PM

    Sad, but true.

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  2. Rich in NCJune 6, 2018 at 4:41 PM

    ...the Media and elites would have you believe this. Between the invisible and deplorable members of the country, there's probably a sizeable majority that is unaccounted for.

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  3. BorepatchJune 6, 2018 at 6:30 PM

    I hope so, Rich.

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  4. KenJune 7, 2018 at 7:56 AM

    Billy Beck characterized it as the cannibal-pot organizing principle (paraphrased, but I think accurately).

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  5. RichardJune 9, 2018 at 1:00 PM

    This is why the choice is partition or civil war. (Leaving out surrender as an option.)

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