Do you think the US can survive a partisan divided nation in a post 911 world?

Answer 1

Yes, it will survive. But the way things are going, based upon the comments in this forum alone, I think the US will limp along for many years to come. So much hatred for one another within the same country. And for what reason? Because one group does not agree with the other's political leanings. Is that a good reason for hatred? I wouldn't have thought so, but apparently it is sufficient reason in the Greatest Nation in the World! Perhaps the US should take stock internally, before going out to 'save' other nations from internal strife...

Answer 2

We survived 1812 when the British burned the White House.
We survived the civil war (can it be more partisan than that?)
and we survived WW II when two continents and almost 1/2 of the world's GDP were entirely in the hands of our very organized enemies and our military was only a fraction of what it is today.

9/11 was a terrible horrible tragedy and a tremendous shock to our safe secure selves (and our ideas of global American dominance,) but it and all the terrorists in the world have never posed a serious threat to our "survival." The war in Iraq has done far more real and material damage to this nation than 9/11.

Which is why the liberties (no pun intended) that the Bush administration has taken with our ideals, constitution and rights are all the more obscene.

Partisanship, opposition, conflict, dissent, resistance, antagonism and argument are bedrock principles of our democracy. It is only against the anvil of opposition that every theory, presumption and supposition is tested. It was that very partisanship that was missing in action back in 2002 that allowed our leaders' unchecked hubris to lead us into the fiasco that we now find ourselves.

I wanted to add a passage from a Walker Percy novel called 'The Moviegoer" that I just happened to be reading.
"Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world."

--This was written in 1960, so don't think partisanship is anything new.

Answer 3

The United States has always been divided by partisan politics. This goes all the way back to the revolutionary beginnings of the country. We always believe that we live in the most extraordinary and dire of times. This nation has faced great divides through it's history which have threatened to tear us apart, but when the need arises we find a way to pull together for the common good.

Answer 4

Yes, our bipartisan nation has withstand attacks in World War 2 and for over a hundred years we have been. The National-Union is built on the idea of fighting citizens' agitation with the law and progess within the government to cooperate on their behalf as politicians, http://www.voteprimous.com

Answer 5

Yes. The myth that the world changed on 9/11 is a big one. The fact is only that on 9/11 we got a wake up call. There were no more Muslims wishing our deaths on 9/11 than on 9/10 (in fact, you could say there 19 fewer).

Answer 6

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Answer 7

We have always "survived", and there are those who WILL put aside the differences and pull together, but you have a few who won't, those who only work to further their agenda and care for nothing else ...
I guess I am wondering if we will thrive? Will we look weak to other nations?
It is up to those in leadership to come together for the common cause of this Great Nation.

Answer 8

Yes. It is the American way to agree to disagree. I think there is always the "divided parties", but it is more evident now due to the happenings in the world. Basically, I think people are speaking up now to save their votes. . .

Answer 9

We have been much more divided than we are now son and in my liftime. We survived the freakin' Civil War and you are ready to question wether we can survive this? So little faith....

Answer 10

Not in the long run. We need a Gerald Ford to come in and cross party lines. But who is going to do it? Joe Lieberman and John McCain, maybe. Certainly not what we have in DC now.