A Timeline Of Divisiveness

Posted by Sean Robertson | Jul 22, 2019 |

There is NO mistaking the fact that the country is divided…

The truth is, we’ve probably never experienced a political divide this wide since right before the Civil War.

But when did it start?

The Left likes to argue that it began in 1999 when George W. Bush defeated Al Gore by winning the Florida vote in a controversial decision based on “hanging chads”.
But they’re wrong.

After 9/11, our country was united. We were able to come together in the face of TRUE evil and put aside our differences for the sake of helping to heal our nation’s wounds.

EVERYBODY was waving their American flags with pride…

As well they should, but especially during that time in our history, our country was solidified.

We were able to bring that pro-America attitude with us into the War on Terror as we stamped out Al Qaeda.

Things were going very well.

And then the housing collapse of 2008 put us into a tailspin. Unfortunately for Barack Obama, he inherited that mess (a mess brought on by the policies of Bill Clinton, but  that’s an argument for another day) …

But it was the mess he had to work with.

Now, as much as this might anger some of our readers, the truth is that Obama didn’t do a bad job, economically speaking.

He was given a proverbial poop-sandwich, and while he did his best to make that sandwich palatable, he just couldn’t scrape the whole thing clean.

However, it wasn’t the hardship of the recession that hurt our country – though it didn’t help…

The Occupy Wall Street movement may have been the event that started the schism between the Right and the Left in America.

The mass media turned this cultural event into something that it shouldn’t have been – and the narrative that came out of it was that the rich don’t care about the poor, and it pitted the two sides against each other for ratings.

The Occupy Wall Street movement gave birth to the domestic terrorist group ANTIFA, as they were a heavy presence over those two months in New York City.

A Missed Opportunity

This was a moment for Obama to shine…

He could have used the event to unify the country once again – to show both sides that, regardless of what happened to get us in the mess of the recession, we were all in it together and the only way OUT of it was by cooperating.

But he didn’t do that…

He allowed these unemployed miscreants to throw a wrench in the works and disrupt the business of making money for two months – which was two months that he could have used to work with Wall Street to improve the slow-moving economy.
Why didn’t he? It didn’t fit his narrative.

However…

If Occupy Wall Street was the hole in the fabric, the Trayvon Martin shooting was the subsequent rip down the middle.

This tragic story of a 17-year-old student shot by Peruvian-American neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman was horrific…

And the response to it was even more so.

The Right and the Left chose sides.

The Right was on the side of George Zimmerman, the licensed gun owner who used deadly force to defend himself after his confrontation with Martin came to blows.
The Left took the side of Martin, a young kid with his whole future ahead of him, profiled for being young and black in the wrong neighborhood – which ended up costing him his life.

This was the moment…

Our point of no return.

The country could have been unified once again – all we needed was the right man to do it. The President of the United States should have been that man. Obama should have used that moment to bring the two sides together – he should have found a way to make each side understand the concerns of the other.

ANOTHER Missed Opportunity

But he didn’t…

He stood up there and said, “You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there’s a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it’s important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away.”

Talk about divisive.

He basically took up for ONE side in a very important issue.

Was he wrong in what he said? No – but he could have figured out a way to use that moment to address concerns on both sides…

And he didn’t.

That was it…

That was the beginning of it all – and nobody knows how to fix it.

We’ve got people on both sides talking CIVIL WAR for God’s sake, and that shouldn’t be happening in the United States.

We’ve truly forgotten our history…

And, like they say, those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it…

“At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.” – Jesse Jackson

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All of the above was the way Obama intended for things to end because he hates the people and the country.

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