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By jimjam
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E Pluribus Unum – Latin for "Out of many, one" – is a traditional motto of the United States, appearing on the Great Seal and every coin minted in the United States. America is a grand, aspirational human project that requires sharing some very deep things — foundational principles like liberty and justice for all . Right now those deep things not only have been fractured, they are actively being fractured by a polarization industry that assaults the truth and trust necessary for these projects to flourish.
A high density of social networks makes it increasingly hard to govern because of the way these networks have eliminated traditional gatekeepers. Getting rid of traditional gatekeepers can be good — it opens up more opportunity for others to politically engage and tell their stories. But it can also eliminate standards in ways that erode truth and trust. America has recently survived an intense, roiling experience with a highly polarizing, but incredibly media savvy, populist leader ready to break all the rules and weaken the restraints of their judicial system, state bureaucracy and traditional media unlike any leader before them.

In America, it’s projected that the country will become “majority minority” around 2045, when whites will make up roughly 49.9 percent of the population. This has intensified polarization, as the Trump G.O.P. has played on the fears of that tipping point and sought to constrict legal and illegal immigration and, more recently, voting rights to preserve the powers of the shrinking white majority. Additionally, the Trump G.O.P. has astutely captured the vast majority of religious fundamentalist votes by tossing them scraps from the table. The single worst thing that ever happened to the Human Species: Religion. This is why the founding fathers wrote the separation between church and state. Something that the Republicans seem to want to change. Religion has no place in any government. Especially fundamentalist religion. That never bodes well for human rights or democracy. "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people"...….. did Marx have it right ?….. :?:

The left has gone to the other extreme, increasingly defining people by their race, religion, sexual orientation or power/powerlessness status, not by what we all have in common as Americans. We are barreling down the highway to hell and we may currently be crossing what may be our final exit ramp. To thrive in the 21st century both America needs to define anew what it means to be a pluralistic democracy — with big, idealistic aspirations — at a time when their populations have become so much more diverse.

Right now, too many Americans are walking around asking, quietly or loudly, “Hey, whose country is this anyway?” instead of, “Hey, see what we can do when we’re together?" Let us guard against changing that motto on our coins from e pluribus Unum to e pluribus pluribus …….. such would seem to indicate the end of the United States of America.

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