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In 1860, America teetered on the edge of becoming two countries as southern states seceded from the union because the South’s economy was tied to the barbaric ideology of slavery. A bloody civil war was the result, but the nation endured and remained united in the same way that the human body unites to fight diseases. One hundred and sixty plus years later, the nation is at another ideological crossroad, which has split the country into a divisiveness that makes the name: United States into an oxymoron, and puts every American at risk of succumbing to the cultural cancer that threatens the American way of life.
The left and right parts of a person’s body work in unison to help people function and perform daily tasks. Try riding a bicycle where one side of the body refuses to cooperate with the other side, and you won’t get very far. The terms “left” and “right” are very different from the left and right sides of one’s body. Yet, if one were to look at the United States as a human body and left and right as the sides of that body, it wouldn’t take a brain surgeon to ascertain that this body is suffering from a cancer that grows daily.
Since the United States became an independent nation, political discourse, debate, and disagreement have been the diet of a healthy democracy. Everyone doesn’t need to be on the same page, and challenging ideas is a mental exercise that has generated positive changes in a nation that was destined to become a superpower.
We have endured a variety of difficult times that include economic panics, the Great Depression, wars (some popular and some unpopular), and social unrest. Great leaders from the past took on the role of physicians to help America get through difficult times and be resilient to the serious issues that have destroyed other nations and empires. They provided the political medicine to quell fears and ensure good health and prosperity. Each dilemma tested the endurance of the country’s ability to fend off the things that would destroy it and illustrated the adage, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
The American immune system was both enduring and an example for other nations of what could be achieved through hard work and perseverance. It endured record joblessness after the stock market crash of 1929 and ensuing years of suffering by those who couldn’t find jobs and lived through numerous hardships. It endured the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the attacks of 9-11. It endured political assassinations and riots that tested the American body the way different illnesses test our physical bodies.
Abraham Lincoln paraphrased the Bible (Mark 3:25) in a speech that gave him national recognition when he said, “… a house divided against itself, cannot stand.” I will add to this, as it pertains to America today, and say a body divided against itself cannot fend off the things that will cause it to become ill and eventually die. A nation torn in half cannot prosper and will eventually collapse under the weight of revolutionary dissension.
Today, in America, there are warring camps where violence is becoming the norm. There is no compromise, and there is no room for discussion. It is hard to agree upon anything when the only sounds heard are shouts and vulgar language. Unlike the great men who acted as physicians to heal social ills in the past, those in leadership positions today fan the flames of divisiveness, act as agitators instead of peacemakers, and send willing dupes to do their bidding (in many cases to take attention away from their own illegal actions). There are no Abraham Lincolns or George Washingtons to lead the nation through challenging times; there are only self-serving ideologues who make speeches to further infuriate those who have already taken sides and are willing to kill and maim their fellow Americans because they are the candidates of vilification. These manipulators are the cancer cells of American society, and those succumbing to their tirades fail to see that they are mere pawns in a game where their martyrdom isn’t mourned by organizers whose only goal is their own power and influence to secure greater wealth.
One illness that has become more of a pandemic than COVID ever was is TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), and the main symptom is to hate anything that involves Donald Trump. The mainstream media are carriers of this disease, and the only vaccination to cure it is a dose of common sense. No president’s policies will make everyone in a nation happy; however, when people hear the name Donald Trump, there is a tightening of sphincters that occurs under the conditions of a colonoscopy gone wrong. They are conditioned to despise, criticize, and hate anything associated with the name Donald Trump and react like it’s a reflex.
Every day, there is news about ICE and protests, and people take sides. Can we not agree that the opening of borders that was clearly intended to support the democratic party was not some egalitarian human rights mission? Can we not agree that we don’t want the importation of murderers and rapists to victimize decent American citizens? Can we not agree that violence, murder, and assassinating those with opinions we don’t like is not acceptable, nor shall it be celebrated as in the case of Charlie Kirk? Can we agree to disagree without the threat of violence? Can we not agree that our tax dollars should not be handed to those engaging in outrageous amounts of fraud at the expense of hardworking taxpayers? Can we not agree that those paying the protesters are cowards who want to see America destroyed and who use their money because they don’t have the guts to stand on the front lines of a protest?
There will always be a minority of whack jobs and, of course, paid protesters. The question is, are the purple-haired, dress-wearing males with psycho eyes representative of the American public? If so, then the handwriting is already on the wall, and we are doomed. I don’t believe this to be true. Influencers would have you believe this to be true because it means more clicks and likes for them as they live in a hedonistic paradise rather than get real jobs because causing trouble is their job description, and their only skill is rhetoric that incites the feeble-minded, who need a purpose to make their vapid lives have meaning. The political euthanasia of American society needs to stop, and it is time for everyone to realize that the health of the nation resides in reasonable people acting reasonably.
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