This article was inspired by the massive amounts of violence, anger, and anxiety surrounding the recent election. One sees America fragmenting into groups and Tribalism reigning supreme. What happened to the America of the 90’s and early 2000’s, where both sides of the political spectrum were more willing to listen to each other? The breakdown of discussion goes hand in hand with the all-out Kulturkampf of recent times. As much as we all desire unity, there exist two Americas: one capitalist and God-fearing, the other socialist and atheist. The means of pushing down the other culture range from political correctness to controlling the education system to laws to pop culture to judicial mandates. Any and every encroachment by one side breeds anger and irritation in the other.

Cartoon depicting the caning of Charles Sumner.
I want to be fair to the Left, but they are responsible for the majority of violence in recent times: Who smears police officers as universally corrupt, which motivates Black Lives Matter activists to kill police officers? Who refuses to acknowledge that Islamo-fascists are killing Westerners just for being American or European? Who has banished one side of the political spectrum from many college campuses through adherence to political correctness? A political correctness that not only condemns racial slurs and derogatory speech (which should be held in contempt by right thinking men) but even any argument which disagrees with the Leftist worldview? Who has labelled half the country as racists, Nazis, fascists, xenophobes, sexists, etc.? Do they not know that the popular culture equates Nazis and fascists to outlaws, i.e. people who may be killed on sight? Is it the Right Wing that trashes DC while waving Red and Anarchist flags? Some of Trump’s remarks sound plenty offensive to certain people. But, one has the right to say whatever one wishes in a free country, and we can either live as free men of a republic or as slaves of a totalitarian state.
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