There needs to be a mechanism by which people can stand aside from those with whom they have serious irreconcilable differences, and consent to live and let live - just not together. Ideally, that would take the form of having separate national identities.

I always thought it was a mistake during and after the civil war for people to decide that states could not secede from the union. While that decision stands, there are only two options left when USA becomes bitterly divided:

1. Work it out diplomatically
2. Fight it out to the bitter end

Marxists don't do diplomacy. Division is their playbook. The Marxist insurgency needs to be neutralized before the young people can be rescued. If that cannot be done, the prospect for peace looks bleak in the short term, and the question is whether USA can survive what comes next.

I’m curious to know the age groups of everyone answering this question: I’m 23 and I don’t hate this country, I just want to know the truth behind it... to continue making it a better place for everyone who originated here or came here from somewhere else, to enjoy. I’m reading the book “Killing Custer” by James Welch with Paul Stekler... and I’m learning about the many massacres the US Army created against Native Americans (Marias Massacre/200 people mostly women and children) or how the US government and natives repeatedly broke treaties that they created (Treaty of Fort Laramie 1868 ) Because the US wanted gold and land while the native people just wanted their holy sites (The Black Hills). What do we do with these truths of our history? Acknowledge them? Ignore them? Say they’re in the past? America is flawed, we are not a utopia and that’s okay, but its hard to ignore the pitfalls of our past, especially when our past really wasn’t benefiting ALL people at once. Was the price we paid (slavery, conquering natives and their land to gain more wealth) for the creation of this country and progress worth the divisiveness we are seeing in extreme volumes today?

America does have its flaws. But the dieals of what America is supposed to be from the founding fathers are most excellent ideas. The big flaw is people care too much about how they feel and know nothing of the Consitution and care only for money and power.

America is the one Country in existence where people can raise themselves out of abject poverty purely based on how hard they feel like working. America has the most freedoms. People clambor to get into America on a daily basis and that isn't based on some wild eyed leftists view of what they want this Country to be, it's based on what this Country is. America isn't perfect and neither are the people within it. There is no perfect Country but America is as close to perfection as any Country in history has ever reached. Let's not tear it down, let's tweak it and build upon it and let's do that in the interest of actual improvement, not in the interest of quelling a few dissenting voices. Let's make changes that are truly good for everyone.

I would say that America is great because of it's vision of possibilities and its successes, limited as they may be. The declaration declares that all men are created equal- we are born powerless and at the mercy of the world. In this we are indeed equal, but in most other respects we are not and it does not take a rocket scientist to see the truth of this. The declaration also states that we are endowed by our creator with the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Yes, America is flawed. Show me a nation in the world that is NOT flawed. As a government, to quote Mr. Lincoln, of the people, by the people, for the people, our elected representatives have indeed let us down by whittling away at the liberties granted by the constitution, but I would suggest that there is no other nation in which the pursuit of happiness has as much chance for success as in America. There is no guarantee of happiness under any government on earth, but the freedom to pursue it, even in the face of uncertainty, is one of the foundational principles of America that socialist societies dare not counsel.
Everyone seems to be obsessed with the country's history of slavery but never seem to remember that the United States and Great Britain had both abolished the African slave trade by 1808 and the American Civil War put an end to it for the rest of the Western hemisphere at the cost of more than 350,000, mostly white, Union soldiers' lives.
The founding fathers were not perfect either. Yes some were slave owners but it needs to be remembered that slavery, immoral as it was, was not illegal at the time and though The New York Times' 1619 Project would have us believe that slavery was the sole reason for the colonization of America, a little honest research will show that this is a disingenuous argument. Yes our founders were flawed. Socialists seem to think that the human creature can be perfected and that government is the agency for achieving it, and once we have achieved that perfection then we'll all be equal in all other respects. Where everyone is equal no one is free.

Tell them to do a little research into Canadian history - let's say back to 2015 or so. When they see how our dipshit dictator has destroyed what was once a country that we were so proud to call our own, they may change their tune a bit on what they consider to be a flawed USA

How about a bit of levity before immolating meat and guzzling kegs on this fine Fourth? To quote the Firesign Theatre:

What makes America great?
It's candied apples and ponies with dapples
You can ride all day
It's girls with pimples and cripples with dimples that just won't go away
It's spics and wops and niggers and kikes with noses as long as your arm
It's micks and chinks and gooks and geeks and honkies (honk! honk!) who never left the farm!

Thank you Mr. and Mrs. America!

It is possible both to think that America is the vehicle for the best possible world and to think that America is flawed. Moreover, America can be flawed regardless of what people think or are taught. The issue preventing reconciliation is that many people have internalized a false myth of America and refuse to let go of their blind patriotism to join their fellow citizens in improving it.

we must kill the abrahamic law and the rest of the religions can mesh together

why is the current era so hung on an adjective. united states of America, not great amrrica

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