Will Americans Vote Their Way Back on November 3, Election Day?
How do we return to the good old days of America? The answer is not to return to the past at all. Perhaps it is to recover something we seem to have lost: the belief that Americans can disagree without becoming enemies.
Over the past decade, American democracy has been tested from within. We are living through what I call The USA Divide. Everyone feels it. Politics has become personal, culture has become ammunition, and the Internet has turned disagreement into an endless cycle of outrage, misinformation and tribalism.
The modern era of division accelerated with the rise of Trump and MAGA, followed by a series of overlapping crises that intensified America's political and cultural fractures:
- Trump-MAGA and the growing battle over American identity
- Billionaires, celebrities and political influencers increasingly disconnected from ordinary Americans
- The nationwide response to Black Lives Matter
- COVID-19, including the bitter political and cultural fight over vaccines
- The January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol
- Kyle Rittenhouse and the politicization of criminal justice
- Gender and race becoming political weapons
- The explosive Woke vs. Anti-Woke culture war
- Online echo chambers and extremist political communities
- The post-Obama struggles of the Democratic Party
- Misinformation, partisan media and declining trust in journalism
- The growing radicalization of both the political left and right
- Political violence and America's continuing mass-shooting crisis
- The housing and cost-of-living crisis confronting younger Americans
- The division of education and public institutions
- Government secrecy, misinformation and declining public trust
- The continuing controversy surrounding Jeffrey Epstein
- Gaza, Israel and another deeply polarizing foreign-policy debate
- The rapidly growing power and uncertainty surrounding artificial intelligence
- And, tragically, the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, another reminder that political violence can cross the line from rhetoric into murder.
None of these events can be blamed on one political party, one president or one ideology. That may be one of the most important lessons.
The problem is the division itself.
America's Civil Rights Movement had a fundamentally different goal. It sought to expand the promise of America: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity and dignity regardless of race.
The words remain simple:
All people are created equal and entitled to equal protection under the law.
That principle should not belong to the left or the right.
It belongs to America.
We need to reject the idea that our neighbors are our enemies. We need to stop rewarding politicians, influencers and media organizations that make money by keeping Americans angry at one another.
We need journalism that values facts over clicks.
Education that teaches people how to think rather than what to think.
Government that earns public trust rather than demands it.
Technology that connects people instead of exploiting their differences.
And perhaps most importantly, we need to start talking to one another again.
The "good old days" were never perfect. America has always struggled with racism, inequality, political corruption, violence and division.
But Americans have also repeatedly demonstrated that we can change.
The next chapter does not have to be another decade of division.
It can be a decade of rebuilding.
We don't have to agree on everything.
We simply have to remember that we are Americans first.
Please stay safe, stay informed, and.. don't give up o bet against US.
We are the American melting pot and the mixed salad. One nation under God, indivisible... etc.
Paul McCartney - In Performance at the White House.2010.HDTV.ch.5.avi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyq4dHqMsVs
