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Republicans Preaching Unity and Healing? What a Joke
The masters of division have yet to lift a finger to end it.
“But we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Tellin’ how you are gonna change right from wrong
’Cause if you really want to hear our views
You haven’t done nothin’” — Stevie Wonder, “You Haven’t Done Nothin’,” 1974
Donald Trump has left the building.
He may be gone from the White House, but he won’t be soon forgotten — nor will his final acts as an American President, specifically, lying about the validity of the 2020 US election results and encouraging a mob of his supporters to invade the US Capitol building on January 6. His legacy is basically the mess he’s left for his successor, 46th US President Joe Biden, to clean up.
Aside from when the 13 original colonies joined together to extricate themselves from British rule, the United States have never been truly united (and even during the American Revolution, the Mason-Dixon line was already serving as a literal and symbolic divider). Something (or someone) has always seemed to separate us, politically, socially, economically, and/or culturally — slavery, Reconstruction, Civil Rights, Vietnam, abortion, LGBTQ rights, the interpretation of the Constitution — often to the point where we’ve felt more like individual countries…
