On Sunday's, typically after breakfast at our favorite breakfast haunt, MrsMac and I swing by the local grocery store. This grocery store's size is about 10% of your normal big city grocery store and the folks who work and shop there are our neighbors. Just going in to buy a quart of milk often takes a half an hour.
Anyway on Sundays I hide off in the corner of the store to avoid the numerous chats my wife has with folks as she strolls through the store and read the Sunday paper. When that proves boring I read articles on my phone. Well this morning I ran across "Fred on Everything's" new article titled,
An Impolitic Slumgullion.
In essence diversity is what is tearing apart our country and the result is a more widening gulf between all folks. He points his finger to the fact the US
ofA was made up of thousands of relatively isolated communities. These communities decided on what the morals and rules of the community would be. This worked out well as long as New York City values stayed in NYC, Boise values stayed in Idaho, LA Values stayed in California, et cetera - You get the premise.
Well things changed around the late 70's early 80's as more and more folks moved away from their bastions of normalcy into completely new communities with differing ideals and values. Can you imagine the alienation a couple from NYC must have felt who due to lack of work locally was forced to move to Boise? My heavens, high school kids in Boise had gun racks and during hunting season actually held GUNS! Of course they went to school with guns so they could get out into the field quickly after the last class of the day at school. However, hunting as well as guns is totally alien to NYC dwellers.
Or a couple from LA being forced to move to a small town in the rural south for a job and was faced with a plaque showing the Ten Commandments every time they entered their county court house. Oh my Lord - What about the separation of
Church & State as they learned it from the school they attended.
This migration of folks with different values, morals, and education background started this whole diversity mantra and a need for all Americans to become inclusive.
Then bring to this migration the internet. People who were raised and continue to live in their community and did not migrate. They discovered that there were actual people outside their community that had totally different values and morals then they had. So they tried to interject their values and morals on others because in part the other communities made them feel uneasy and it forced a certain amount of soul searching on their parts which they did not want to do.
Anyway, I think Fred has hit the nail squarely on the head of why as Americans, we are constantly bickering today. The chasm is definitely growing between NYC, Boise, LA, Spokane, liberal, conservative, minded folks. History has shown us that this kind of fracture of a culture does not end well.
