Why do we fight so much?

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No…more traumatic than that.

Something that allows such disparate tribes to believe they can be part of one tribe again.

I have a local example…we have some real bad seeds on our local school board. One is such a fool I was able to stitch together a coalition of some of the most left-wing and most right-wing parents you can imagine and work together to defeat candidates who were allied to him and would have given his group a majority on the board.

Even now he’s keeping us mostly united until 2019 when we can vote him out of office.

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They never were one tribe.

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I was making a joke, however after I said it I realized that we always do go back in time to a day before the shooting took place, and we pretend it didn’t happen.

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Therefore, is turning back the time even desirable? We need to move forward and change whats wrong with our current society, not try to make it exactly the way it was.

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The way our society used to be led to this after all.

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We fight so much because we have irreconcilable differences. We have always fought and always will.

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Well…depending on what characteristics were dominant in society at the time, they were.

But yes…at root they never were, and it was always an uneasy alliance.

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There is not “our current society”. You society is different from mine is different than his.

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You’re arguing something that wasn’t implied.

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For about 24 hours after the attacks of 9-11 it was pretty close………….

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No they weren’t. This has been going on since day 1. Not alliance. Alliances. These two against those three. Alliances are for example what get a President elected. Then they change.

This country has never been “one tribe”.

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Yes, close. Same thing on December 8th, 1941.

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Implied? It was stated.

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America is an agglomeration of various tribes. I don’t know why people would disagree with this statement.

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Not by me.

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You aren’t even going to get 5 people to agree on “what’s wrong”, much less how to change it for the better.

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You’re right. I’m pessimistic for our future.

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I just quoted it again. “Our current society” doesn’t exist.

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No need to be. What’s the worst that can happen?

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America is an agglomeration of various tribes. America exists. There is dominant American culture. Just because we live in different tribes doesn’t mean we exist in separate realities.