America is the easiest country in the world to divide.

[kentuck]

Tyrants and political opportunists can divide the people almost anywhere, over religion or some cultural issue, if that is their goal.

But America has long been the most diverse country in the world. Every minority group in this country has experienced some sort of discrimination or racist attacks at one time or other, including the Italians and the Irish. Of course, none can come close to the attacks experienced by African-Americans. They began their American experience as slaves.

Religion and class have divided our country at different times of our history. The Mormons were persecuted to the point where they felt they had to move somewhere where they would not be found, and they could live in peace and freedom and practice their religion.

The ruling classes in this country have long exploited labor for their own greed and benefit. There have been union struggles since at least the Industrial Revolution. The Chinese workers were abused and exploited by the wealthy railroad men near the end of the nineteenth century.

America has been an easy place to exploit and divide. We see it again today in our political Parties. A tyrant chose to exploit the American people for his own desire for power. And he was very successful. America's history makes it very difficult to change.

Just my opinion.

[RKP5637]

1. Well said, excellent opinion!!! n/t

[Klaralven]

2. The US was fairly cohesive up through WW II

There were two main factors:

1 - the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite were in firm control of business and government, and

2 - there was a large immigrant population from Europe which had left various despotic regimes to join a uniquely democratic country which offered great opportunity.

Sometime around the mid '50s both of these factors began to wane substantially. There is no longer any generally accepted moral or religious basis for American society, there is no dominant ethnic group, the US' government system is no longer more democratic and the economic system no longer offers more opportunity than others.

[ShazamIam]

3. The worst of the division efforts and success center on the document that is what unifies us,

The U.S. Constitution. That is our unifying document, it no longer restricts Citizenship to White Men as was once considered it to do.

The first ten amendments offer protection for all individual Citizens and residents, not only this group or that group.

That is what I have hoped the Democratic would use in their campaigns, but the dividers decided to give the claim of Constitutionality to the group, conservative and Republican, ownership of the very document they defy, vilify and have appointed a special Supreme Court to decimate.

We can say why don' the Democratic do this or that, but it is the media that determines the national dialogue and narrative and it is not going to allow any democratic claims about the Constitution.

The media is owned by the same billionaires who own the rights to resources, production, distribution and legislative and governing bodies of the nation.

They are anti-democratic, feudal like, capitalists, where only the owner class is to be allowed to influence policy and agendas.

So even as I have hoped the Democratic Party would campaign on the unifying nature of our Constitution, I am not certain the media would go along.

*edit, accidentally clicked post before I spellchecked.