Divided We Stand

Tonight I asked my husband if he remembered the last time this country was this divided.  He just nodded and said, "Viet Nam, Kent State, Watts riots, Feminism."  Some of you reading this won't remember how divided this country was over Viet Nam, race and feminism.  The late sixties and early seventies were chaos politically and philosophically.

Recently, on Facebook my daughter raised the question of Viet Nam and that whole era.  A man that is older than I am refuted my classification of this time as chaotic.  He remembered a good economy and that the government was in control.  I was younger and I remember it differently.  I wasn't in the job market; I was in high school and college.  The economy was not a concern for me yet and politics was something for politicians.  But I remember being horrified at the race riots in Watts, the shooting at Kent State, bra burning protests that embarrassed me.  I had already seen the horrors of the assassinations of JFK, MLK, RLK in a few short years.

What does this have to do with now?  A lot.  I see a lot of political chaos.  The Democratic Party is divided; the Republican Party is divided.  We are facing deficits that will devastate our country in the long run. We are facing political divisiveness that replicates the 60's and 70's.  Two unpopular wars, Johnson's "great society" (Obama's progressive agenda), and taxes.

I have been there and done that.  We can recover.  I refuse to be negative.  But, it is going to take a lot of work...by Conservatives that believe in limited government, no nanny state and our constitution.