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lol For example?This rhetoric might sound good but it’s fundamentally a false comparison, as conservatives have – for the most part – sought for decades to divide the American people with hot-button wedge ‘issues’ that are in fact not ‘issues’ at all, in an effort to conceal and deflect from the real problems the Nation must address, problems conservatives want to ignore.How many stars in the American flag?
Fifty, you say? I'm not sure. If there were fifty, then citizens of liberal states and conservative states would join in common purpose on the blue field which is, after all, called, "the union."
Instead, it seems, we are recklessly tugging at the thread that holds us together. Today, liberals and conservatives barricade themselves in digital citadels where some media, with calculated bias, assure their viewers that what they already believe is correct. If we wall ourselves in castles of confirming information, I fear a new Cold War. This time, a cold civil war.
Given this danger, why do both parties promote almost nothing but divisive scandals? Because it is so much easier than health insurance or immigration reform. Taking on actual challenges would require work, and listening, and thought, and union.
"Divided, we stand"? Scott Pelley on our American flag, and our common purpose - CBS News