so deep seeds of division are planted and cultivate in these ways it's not likely that anyone will change anyone else's way of thinking whether these seeds are tended to and fertilized from within ideological camps by politicians and pundits or by foreign adversaries who would love to see america retreat from the world stage to tend to its own garden it doesn't really matter at this point it's not likely that there will be a massive non-partisan initiative to legislate our way to a more straightforward path the infusions of evangelism and counterculture rebellion only add additional fertilizer to these seeds of division so are we on a course that we'll find is so divided that succession revolution arm insurrection socialism or autocratic governance are the only options remaining what can avert these outcomes are we already there and beyond the tipping point sidestepping civil war it was ronald reagan who once said i occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we are facing an alien threat from outside this world the same is true for american divisiveness both divisions can politicize an event like a recession natural disaster even a pandemic even though the death toll may be high once the divisions are deeply rooted enough the event just fuels the growth to unite the american people an event so threatening and grand that it distracts us from our differences it has to happen the collective shock after pearl harbor or NUMBER_TOKEN united us around a common enemy this allowed us to put aside some of our differences to coalesce around the common contempt and need for revenge it is possible that an equally significant event like these could unite us for a brief moment and stabilizes war with china rush over ukraine sovereignty or territorial disputes in the south china sea respectively might rally enough of both ideological extremes to bring them slightly closer together it could however just drive a deeper wedge between the old guard and the disenfranchised younger generations a booming economy would record low unemployment and abundance of opportunity might collectively calm the masses but with rising inflation that isn't likely to occur either a nuclear iran or blustering north korea might bring us closer together from my perspective we're currently living through the watershed event covet NUMBER_TOKEN. if our country gets ahead of it and appears to be fading by the middle of this year collectively our feelings of stress and tension will be replaced with relief and optimism for the future hopefully both camps will claim the profit of course historically the decline of every civilization was also accompanied by uncontrollable pestilence barring an event that would bring us together i don't really see a means to sidestep the inevitable and we will continue barreling towards autocracy plutocracy or what i outlined earlier civil war today countries worldwide that have managed to sidestep civil war did so by instituting significant political reforms and strengthening their democracy with such partisan division and every statement in action amplified online and on the air it might no longer be feasible for any one party to implement significant political reform ample enough to change your current course what can you do there isn't anything you i or we collectively can do to alter the current course in my opinion the best we can do is not feed the machine of divisiveness and focus on our own preparations for surviving it was a political satirist voltaire who soberly put it that one must cultivate one's own garden
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