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:

Gorges Smythe said...

Sad, but true.

Rich in NC said...

...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.

Borepatch said...

I hope so, Rich.

Ken said...

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

Richard said...

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