Birth of a nation …. breaking away from a monarchy? America has always experienced periods of intense disagreements, peril and strife, being a young country with hard-won freedoms of and from religion, assembly, speech, and civil rights. Revolution to Civil War to our current divisions, we struggle to keep and expand our liberties. Forgetting history, we believe polarization has increased over the past several decades, culminating in having a two-term, African-American president, followed by a societal-backlash of the exact opposite of statesman, Barack Obama. Left/right, open/closed, progressivism/conservatism, multi-nationalism/isolationism. An authoritarian wave has spread worldwide. “We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment, hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.” (John McCain 2018)
Trish Forsyth Voss
Jan 6 2020
What created the current partisan divide with respect to political parties?
Birth of a nation …. breaking away from a monarchy? America has always experienced periods of intense disagreements, peril and strife, being a young country with hard-won freedoms of and from religion, assembly, speech, and civil rights. Revolution to Civil War to our current divisions, we struggle to keep and expand our liberties. Forgetting history, we believe polarization has increased over the past several decades, culminating in having a two-term, African-American president, followed by a societal-backlash of the exact opposite of statesman, Barack Obama. Left/right, open/closed, progressivism/conservatism, multi-nationalism/isolationism. An authoritarian wave has spread worldwide. “We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment, hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.” (John McCain 2018)
Trish Forsyth Voss
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