Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Tower of Babel (Vienna)
In any event, you may be interested in my intended reply.
To Allen:
"Fabulously well..."
As I mentioned in my previous comment, our political chasm is so wide -- and so abyssal -- that Americans on opposite sides of the political aisle don't even speak the same language when we talk about the rift.
For example, both sides say they are champions of Democracy,
But one side promotes the principle, "one person, one vote," while the other aspires to minimize the number of voters, simultaneously investing corporations with "personhood." (I will go to my grave perplexed by that ideological contortion.)
Such divisions are everywhere along the "red"-"blue" fault line.
And we have neither common purpose nor common language to mend these rents, or even to discuss them.
Again, we'll see what happens in November.
But if the outcome bodes another four years of absolutely non-compromising antagonism (or what you would describe as things "going fabulously well"), I will dedicate myself to promotion of a solution that appeals to both blues and reds.
"Is It Time For Red States And Blue States To Collaborate On The Creation Of Two Nations?"
At regular intervals I pause and reflect over the nation's ongoing reenactment of the Tower of Babel myth.
To summarize:
"The splendorous tower rose skyward, all the eager collaborators speaking the same language and sharing the same upward-striving goals."
And then, suddenly, their single language was "confounded" and no one could understand "the other."
Then they scattered.
Tower of Babel
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