The U.S. government is suppose to be a country FOR the people BY the people. The problem is when there are extremes and one side wants to deny people rights, then there are BIG problems. There was a time, when we had people who thought some people were not humans could be slaves and on the other side, people who saw all people as humans and assisted those who enslave escape slavery. The slave owners believed it was their God given right to own other human beings as property and treat them as inhuman. While many say that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery, the truth is it did, because the states in which slavery was legal, felt it was their state’s right to own others.
Flash forward to the 15th amendment in which Black got the right to vote. Suddenly there was strange fruit all over the South for decades, as well as obstructions to voting, like reading tests and other crap. It would still be a while before women of any colour could vote though.
Then in 1967, after years of a man and woman not being able to marry who they want, if that person was a different colour. They used the Bible for this too, but with Loving v Virginia, that crap ended and it also set precedent for LBGQ marriages too.
Women’s Suffrage led to the 19th amendment (1920) finally giving women the right to vote. Later in '72 the ERA passed, but abortion was never codified leading to today where women’s rights are being taken away, including and especially health care for women. Women are already starting to die because of it.
I could continue with examples of how one side denies others rights, but this is the problem. One side has for centuries denied rights to others, only granting them to some- like rich, white men. The other sides wants rights for everyone, gun reform, immigration reform, abortion rights, LBTQ rights, etc etc etc.
How can there be unity when there are people who don’t care if everyone has rights and health care. That side only wants rights for Big Pharma, Big Business, and Rich white men?
Did you notice they threw out two Black young men government for speaking out, while they didn’t throw out the white woman helping them, even though they thought about it? Even she thought that was wrong. One would have to be blind not to see things like that. Their constituents voted them back in again. So there is some good in the U.S., but the majority in government don’t give a damn.