Are There Two Americas?

It Becomes increasingly more difficult to argue that America is a land of people united in a common cause. In fact, it would be simpler to say that there are definitely two sets of people embracing two radically different belief systems. How else to explain the one group that has consistently held that the war in Iraq was ill conceived, and ill fought? How else to explain why one group does everything in it's power to dismantle the oil based economy upon which our nation depends for it's very survival? This is cleverly exercised in the name of ridding America of not just it's dependency on foreign oil, but on something called an "addiction" to that resource. Everywhere one looks, there are "code words" associated with any change this group wants to implement. This group's supporters are themselves coalesced into organizations promoting specific agendae of their own, i.e. the environment, individual behavior not desired, loss of freedoms incrementally so, and on, and on.

This might be something to be ridiculed if it were not for the fact that each member of this group, those elected, and those supporting them, virtually thinks, and acts alike. It doesn't seem possible at all, that so many people arrive at the same conclusions spontaneously. It is not possible, not even probable. Give me 20 people, and I'll give you twenty not so similar thoughts on any subject, unless we speak of politics. Then, if I take the same twenty people, all Democrats, and question them on the various aspects of government, or positions held by the other half of the people, there seems to be an instantaneous unanimity. Why is that?

Thinking people realize that the reasons are clear enough. The Elitists, who develop these political positions, lead very well indeed. It is no accident that for the last eight years, references have been made to "red and blue states". Since that time, each new position taken by the other group, known as Republicans, has been denigrated, and argued against unanimously. Meanwhile, the people, and our system of government itself, are the poorer for all this bickering among the two groups.

Today, there are the traditionalists, the Republicans, and the new kids on the block, the Democrats. It has been said of the Democrats that they are Marxist, and Socialist in their thinking. Actions do speak louder than words, and therefore, it is difficult to argue against that assessment of the Democrats. The other day, I heard Bill Bennett asserting that John McCain was the sixth most Conservative member of the US Senaste. If that is the case, then the rest of the Senators are are frighteningly Liberal. John McCain is no classic Conservative, not even close! This is the man who prides himself on "reaching across the aisle", you may recall. Now, his ill gotten fame as a member of "the gang of fourteen", flexing their collective muscles regarding judicial appointments, has been copied by Senator Lindsay Graham, a member of the new, though smaller, "Gang of Ten". These ten Democrats and Republicans are going to develop a compromise plan for an energy policy. This policy, if approved by the Senate, will give to Barack Obama exactly what he wants. So much for precedent, Mr. McCain.

With representatives such as these, who needs a government? Some years back, there was a movement in New Jersey, Southern New Jersey, to secede from the state. South Jerseyans felt that they were not being represented in Trenton. They wanted out. Of course, the movement died, and the state is still one with itself. It woud not surprise me if we one day soon hear calls for the secession of "Red States" from the Union. Not only would it not be surprising, it would be almost logical, given the differences between the two parties, the two groups of people. This is like a bad marriage, needing little more than a legal divorce that the two parties might go on with their respective lives, quite in accord with their beliefs of right and wrong.

Radical, you say? Maybe, but then again, maybe not. Stranger things have happened, and will continue to happen, as long as men with differing ideas of freedom cling tightly to their Bibles, and to their guns. There is more decorum on the fields of sport battles being fought in the name of sportsmanship. In what name is this current battle of different ideologies being fought? Think long and hard about that. It is that important, that relevant.