I am troubled by our current state of political division. I am especially distressed by the profanity often used to express disagreement. Civil discourse has always been the railing that kept us together.
Having various camps of thought
is not only normal, it is necessary. The
trick is finding consensus where two or more camps meet. My first question is always: “What do we have
in common?”
For one thing, and most importantly,
we have the United States of America in common.
I thought about the last time
we, as a nation, were unfalteringly united.
That, only twenty years ago, immediately following the attacks of 9/11. You could sense unity in everything you saw
and feel it everywhere you went.
I recall a particular shopping
trip about a month after the towers fell.
My wife and chanced upon a tiny girl sharing space in a shopping cart
with a puppy. Naturally, we stopped and
patted the puppy on his head.
“I named him America,” the
little girl informed us.
—Mitchell Hegman
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