I've been considering your last comment and it hit me that while I don't think it is worse now than it has been in the past, being difficult to govern, polarized and stymied by conflicting ideologies is how you know you are in a free society. You get none of that in a dictatorship, because it is not allowed. A free people are always going to be difficult and polarized. It's the nature of freedom.
That's a good point. And when it comes to dealing with people voluntarily as a society, it's very true. Freedom requires tolerating conflict and disagreement. But what we're talking about is disagreement over the scope of government, which is specifically the power to end conflict and disagreement with force.
But such force must be constitutionally justified.
It is shown we cannot depend upon congress or the executive to use constitutional official discretion.
It is unwise to allow this continue. Doing so encourages it.
We need to take action to enforce the constitution.
We need unity to effectively do that.
Unity of the American people can only occur with the purpose of free speech being served.
That purpose is abridged, only sincere, loyal Americans attentive to this vital need can compensate.
Are you, dblack, such an American?
Probably not.