A reflection on the state of our dis-union everyone should read.
Yes, I know that for many the New York Times, Washington Post, LA times, The Guardian, and BBC News cannot be trusted. Often, I feel the same way about Fox News, the Washington Examiner, and others. This is what makes Thomas Friedman’s words from August 9, “Beirut’s Blast Is a Warning for America” important. A snippet and a link.
Beirut’s Blast Is a Warning for America
Thomas Friedman, Opinion, The New York Times
The United States is becoming like Lebanon and other Middle East countries in two respects. First, our political differences are becoming so deep that our two parties now resemble religious sects in a zero-sum contest for power. They call theirs “Shiites and Sunnis and Maronites” or “Israelis and Palestinians.” We call ours “Democrats and Republicans,” but ours now behave just like rival tribes who believe they must rule or die.
Everything is now politics — even the climate, even energy, even face masks in a pandemic.