Can The Left and Right Ever Unify?
Unity, let us unify… but around what should we unify? Politicians pay lip service, and political winners often give this message indicating that it’s now time to get on board with their agenda. For obvious reasons, this is not real unity.
But the question is difficult to answer, for several sad reasons. There must be some basis of agreement between opposing sides/ ideas. There used to exist several options, but as of late these habitual rally points have been decimated, usually by one side.
We used to use the discovery of the Americas, but you refuse that on the faulty position that Columbus was a genocidal rapist, so we can’t unify there.
We used to use the founding of America, but you refuse that on the ahistorical grounds that they were all white supremacists trying to exploit minorities, and by making a mockery of the Declaration of Independence (“you know the thing”), the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, so we can’t unify there.
We used to use America’s history, but you refuse that on the foolish notion that it is black vs white, instead of considering the complexity and magnificence of pioneering liberty and individual rights. So we can’t unify there.
We used to use our economic system of capitalism, and it’s superiority to socialism and all other known economic systems. But despite it being the economic system to lift some 90% of the worlds population out of abject poverty you still wrongly claim it runs on corruption and champion the less efficient, and far more deadly and oppressive socialism. So we can’t unify there.
We used to use our political system of elections and representative democracy, but you wish to throw out the electoral college (without understanding why it’s important) and place little confidence in the electoral system. So we can’t unify there.
We used to use “one nation under God”, but your secularism and abuse of the non-constitutional idea of “separation of church and state” have removed almost every aspect of God and morality. We now stand as a less moral people because of it. So we can’t unify there.
What options are left? On what can a country unify if not on its history or founding? it’s systems and practices? it’s heroes or it’s God? Truly these are the only realistic options for unity. Since the destruction of all these options, there cannot be unity unless we return to one of them.
This country is one nation under God, it promotes individual rights, it promotes liberty, it needs free markets, it requires strong, but small, limited government. If we cannot unify on one of all of these there cannot be unity. One side still holds to these ideals, and one side actively fights to destroy it. So do you really want unity? Or do you want compliance?
