America's "Clarification" -- A Good Thing

The existing divide in America is being revealed and clarified. That's a painful thing for us as a nation to be experiencing.

"Let's pretend" as a way of thinking has appeal because it feels good.

"Let's pretend" that we as a nation are not being split apart. "Let's pretend" that none of what is happening is truly happening, or that if it is that it really doesn't matter.

But it does.

That is because we will not -- we cannot-- come together again as a nation -- we cannot truly again be America, the beacon of liberty and progress and hope -- until we recognize that we have come apart.

The US as founded was a "Christian" nation. That -- not meaning a religious dogma, but a plethora of deeply held and shared values about mankind's place and obligations -- is the nation's very basis. -The source of its once seen as "self evident" truths.

America cannot be itself -- it cannot be "America" -- if those values and truths are denied, or worse, trampled and ridiculed.

Pres. Trump -- the man he is today as our president -- is standing for the preservation of those values. Boldly. Courageously.

We can stand together with him. Or not.

There will always be some who remain apart. (And there always have been.) -People who live in America, but are not in the fullest sense, American. Who do not share a love for the nation's basic founding principles.  -Those of liberty mixed with personal responsibility.  Who see "the state" as something else. Something over us, not of us.

The question now is how many such there are. And how many of us there are -- Americans. -Those who love the America of the founding -- a free and just nation, based on the law as set forth in our founding documents.

It matters not when we or our families got here. Or where we or they were from.

What matters is where we stand today.

And yes, with how much energy and conviction.

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