Who ties the knot, keeping us together while so many appeal to the divide?
What causes the cracks and splinters of even our closest families and friends?
Why do we fail to understand the good and proud of those we know are both?
We know we should shout ideas and hug our critics, but we don’t.
America’s founders warned us of the risks of our House Divided. We do not listen.

Is there a defect, a disease, a flaw of character, something with which we were born or exposed?

Can we not understand how those who differ greatly arrived at strange and painful beliefs?

It must have started when we were so young.

Where did we find our original adversaries?

I remember being separated on the playing field. Boys here, girls there. Separation created anxiety.

I knew there were many differences when my parents would fight. Their understandings were not alike.

My Mom was very smart and surrounded herself with close friends who agreed on just about everything, even when all were talking at once.
My Dad had his friends over for sports, beer, and cards. I’m not sure what they agreed on other than local teams, but they all laughed together.

As I grew, I began to understand what guided tribal rules.

Men were in charge of everything external. They did the working, the fighting and claimed, most of the thinking.
Smiling women are gaining ground fast.

Today, our politics are becoming weapons. Super majorities eliminate democratic ideals.
Politics have embraced anger, lies, and those who create the fraud are often admired.
We can no longer trust what we see and hear.
Computer programs speak nonsense through our heroes’ faces.
A Picasso recently discovered is not trusted as genuine.
Do we know if we are already part of some strange computer simulation?
Enemies are weaponizing social media and destroying the minds and lives of our children.
Many tell us we are headed for dangerous times and possible extinction.
Time is wasting. We must act now.

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Retired Programmer

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