Seen yesterday...
24 Feb 2021 09:52![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nwhikerYesterday on I5, north of the Seattle area: pick up truck with a rear gate that had a custom paint job. In big BRIGHT red on white:
NO JOE - NO HO
Of course, there was a Trump sticker on the rear window.
There are times when I truly wonder if we are ever going to be one country again. Because this doesn't feel like "differences of opinion" This feels like hatred. This feel like a division that nothing can mend.
It used to be, I think that the differences of opinion overlaid a fundamental truth. We all wanted, in a general sort of way, for America to succeed and be the best, right? This hid a bunch of shit (systemic racism) but even with the opinion of some that some Americans were 'better' than other Americans, or that we liked them more, there was still a tentative commonality of purpose. I don't think that exists anymore. The other side doesn't believe -and this started back in the Clinton years, maybe before, but at least then- that Democrats are true Americans. The BIPOC ones among us are even less true Americans, but all of us are suspect.
The divisions grow deeper and more profound with each election, Trump's even more so, as he shattered even the semblance of unity, even the pretense of there being an 'us'.
NO JOE - NO HO
Of course, there was a Trump sticker on the rear window.
There are times when I truly wonder if we are ever going to be one country again. Because this doesn't feel like "differences of opinion" This feels like hatred. This feel like a division that nothing can mend.
It used to be, I think that the differences of opinion overlaid a fundamental truth. We all wanted, in a general sort of way, for America to succeed and be the best, right? This hid a bunch of shit (systemic racism) but even with the opinion of some that some Americans were 'better' than other Americans, or that we liked them more, there was still a tentative commonality of purpose. I don't think that exists anymore. The other side doesn't believe -and this started back in the Clinton years, maybe before, but at least then- that Democrats are true Americans. The BIPOC ones among us are even less true Americans, but all of us are suspect.
The divisions grow deeper and more profound with each election, Trump's even more so, as he shattered even the semblance of unity, even the pretense of there being an 'us'.
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