Quote Originally Posted by The_Sicatoka View Post
To head off greater strife and conflict?

"American exceptionalism" used to be the binding thread of the country. Today the concept itself is divisive. The divide between rural and urban keeps growing. The divide between those mindsets is growing faster; pick your issue: guns, abortion, gov'ts role in daily life. And the willingness to converse, much less compromise, is rapidly disappearing.

What does someone who lives their entire life in a 20 block radius of a fifth story flat have in common with someone that lives in a rural area and drives 20 miles one way to work or school every day? One can't imagine the other's daily concerns and problems, and they don't want to.

I'd rather see an "amicable divorce" than a civil war.
You continually astound me.