And it makes one wonder: will the day come when what is now a mere intellectual exercise morph into a broad sentiment -- a sentiment that concretizes as conviction that translates into action?
It seems fantastic now -- "Divorce, American Style" -- but perhaps in a decade the idea that the marriage (more a shotgun affair) between Right and Left America suffers from irreconcilable differences and can no longer continue might be common currency.
No sober-thinking person wants Americans to divorce -- to separate into permanent red and blue Americas -- and for more than the kids' sake. Better to have an America united in liberty, prosperous through free enterprise, and safe from its enemies, domestic and foreign.
But that's not how the American left and its voters see the country; they have (in fact, have had since the early 20th century) a radically different vision for what America should be. And what America should be has little to do with Washington, Jefferson, and Madison and more to do with Hegel, Marx, and the architects who birthed modern corporatist Europe. Moreover, the American left -- typified by President Obama -- is dedicated to a diminution of the United States' power and role in the world. Call it "America the Lesser."
The critical question becomes: if the left remains ascendant; if its principles and policies continue to be ratified by voters in elections to come; if it continues to degrade the culture and morals of society; if the noose is drawn ever tighter around the throats of the individual; if the engine of our prosperity is further hamstrung and plundered, when will conservative America shout, "Enough!"? Why would right America "go gentle into that good night"? Why would conservative America accept tyranny -- albeit a soft tyranny -- and ruin? When is the tipping point reached?
Passivity isn't in the American character. Will Americans -- at least that portion of the nation that retains the revolutionary spirit that gave thirteen colonies their independence -- accept the demise of their freedoms?
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