"When did our country become so divided?"
That's a question that has been thrown around a lot before, during, and after this mid-term election.
Become?
Anyone remember the Sons of Liberty and The Boston Tea Party?
How about that little skirmish called The Civil War? (Roughly 1,264,000 American soldiers have died in the nation's wars--620,000 in the Civil War and 644,000 in all other conflicts).
Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Watergate, Vietnam . . . Hell, Wikipedia has a page titled "List of Social Movements" that includes well over 100 movements that divide people.
Including, but not limited to:
Animal rights movement
Anti-Apartheid Movement
Anti-bullying movement
Anti-capitalism
Anti-consumerism
Anti-corporate activism
Anti-fascism
Anti-nuclear movement
Anti-war movement
Anti-globalization movement
Anti-vaccination movement
Black Lives Matter
Cultural movement
Counterculture movement
Disability rights movement
Environmental movement
Fair trade movement
Feminist movement
Gay rights movement
Ku Klux Klan
Labor movement
Me Too movement
Occupy Wall Street
Organic movement
Pro-choice movement
Pro-life movement
Even a Slow movement
Needless to say, the U.S. has NEVER been united. And maybe that's a good thing. No matter how extreme a situation is, it will change. Natural events balance themselves out by seeking their opposites and thus healing. Actually, without these imbalances, there would be no movement in life. Without flow, our pool of life would just be a . . .
"Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool."
John Mason Good
As history has shown, it takes time. It may take days, years, even lifetimes. But, change it will: destruction and healing, over and over again. As Ralph Waldo Emerson told me today, "Each generation has to write its own book for the succeeding The books of an older period will not fit this one."
Maybe it's time to start the "Turn Off the TV and Internet and Be Present and Patient" Movement.
Carpe diem Life
David Kuhn
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