American politics in 2016 wasn’t perfect, that’s why it’s been called the “Great American Experiment”.

But the world was a whole lot quieter in 2015. Wasn’t it?

Americans got along a lot better than they do today in 2015. Didn’t they?

My point was that we need to go back to that if we have any hope of moving forward.

Unfortunately, the Russian and Chinese governments have been trying to drive a wedge between the American public, and they’re succeeding. Their actions have fractured American conservative parties into useless, “do-nothings”. Now they’re trying to do the same thing to the left. Until now they’ve been unsuccessful.

The United States of America has peered into the abyss before, similar to how we are now. I’ll quote something that someone very wise said at that time that still rings true today.

A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

As we stand upon the precipice, with baited breath, I hope for a future that my children can inherit.