Mac1958
Diamond Member
Having specifically placed this thread in the CDZ, I'm hopeful we can have a calm, reasonable discussion here.
I was watching a conversation on teevee with various pundits about America's partisan divide, and at one point one of them said something like, "well, outside of a major terrorist attack, I can't think of anything right now that could bring the two sides together".
The other pundits all nodded in agreement, as if to say, "well yeah, obviously outside of a major terrorist attack."
Are we sure about that?
Are we certain that, if a successful jihadist attack killed 300 in a school, or set off a dirty bomb in the middle of Manhattan, or killed thousands by flying an airplane into a skyscraper, that Americans would come together as one for a change?
Or have we deteriorated to a point at which would we devolve into finger-pointing and attacking each other along partisan lines before the American bodies were even cold?
Thoughts?
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I was watching a conversation on teevee with various pundits about America's partisan divide, and at one point one of them said something like, "well, outside of a major terrorist attack, I can't think of anything right now that could bring the two sides together".
The other pundits all nodded in agreement, as if to say, "well yeah, obviously outside of a major terrorist attack."
Are we sure about that?
Are we certain that, if a successful jihadist attack killed 300 in a school, or set off a dirty bomb in the middle of Manhattan, or killed thousands by flying an airplane into a skyscraper, that Americans would come together as one for a change?
Or have we deteriorated to a point at which would we devolve into finger-pointing and attacking each other along partisan lines before the American bodies were even cold?
Thoughts?
.