Crazy and disjointed couple of weeks in politics. Obama states the obvious that sexual orientation does not deny a person the same benefits that others are entitled. Shortly after, NC votes to ban same sex marriage in the state consititution.
After I listened to a discussion on the war of 1812 and the divide between the federalists and dem-republicans, this divide seems to persist from then to the civil war to post 1968 politics to that of today. The parties are different and the topics and boundaries between have shifted with the population but there seems to be a cultural malise that prevents us from being a truley multicultural and tolerant society. Historical divides between North and South and thier respective proxies lash out every few years as either states rights, civil rights,abortion, immigration, or whatever disagreeement “requires” us to pick sides.
It’s just depressing. Especially since the great progressive movements of the past are disparaged – at least in public – there does not seem be any chance that realtions will get better. It will come to a head in some horrible public way and America will snap back to civility before the cycle returns.
The one thing that is hopeful is that the younger generations seem far more modern and multicultural than any previous. And in perspective, we will consider our present a painful transition where those generations that follow will have the critical mass to move past the petty discord that we cause.