The WWII generation, frequently referred to as the greatest generation, had many cultural differences, but were also quite united. Sure a war was what partially galvanized that unity, but, and not coincidentally, this country saw an enormous boom of prosperity immediately afterwards.
The war was what PARTIALLY galvanized the unity? You need to stop watching so many movies, hon. The war was the ONLY thing the country could be said to be unified on, and not even really on THAT except past the belief that the United States should come out on top.
If you're really going to try to tout the post-Civil War era as national unity, I'm going to hunt your history teacher down and slap her until her eyes switch sockets. Subduing half the nation by war and starvation and then dragging them along by the scruff of the neck like a whipped dog
via federal troops stationed in their states is NOT "national unity" to anyone but a dictator or a lunatic.
There has NEVER been "unity" in this country. We have ALWAYS disagreed on what our national goals should be and how they should be accomplished. ALWAYS. The only difference is that before this, no one was ever stupid enough to think that national agreement and hand-holding was achievable OR desirable.
Anyway, I'll wrap up in this thread, as I have nothing more to say. I have devoted a good amount of energy, thought, critical thinking, and research over the past couple of decades to my methods, so if you want to attack my opinions (which I actually haven't really given in this thread, oddly enough), good on ya', but I don't know how that would make me intellectually lazy. Enjoy the rest of the thread. At the beginning I thought it had potential, but I can see it will produce nothing of value at this point. It has degenerated into the usual far left and far right bullshit, with the usual product I'm sure: zero.
I haven't "attacked" anything except your posts, and not even really that.
And saying, "I see something bad over here, so I will just assume something equally bad on the other side, because what really matters is staying perfectly balanced on this fence" is intellectually lazy. You haven't changed that opinion one iota.
And frankly, "you're not instantly agreeing that I'm right and you were mistaken, so the thread has no potential" is not only intellectually lazy, but cowardly. Anyone can tell you that I've actually been quite polite to you, but that doesn't require me to treat nonsense like wisdom, or refrain from disagreeing with it.
See, that would be the "robust political discourse" I mentioned a while back, that we used to value and now fear, presumably because everyone today is a thin-skinned whiner who can't bear to hear that they aren't brilliant.