Inciting Violence in an Already Hostility-Ridden Country

In his ongoing attempt to inject as much hostility as possible into the U.S. culture, paralleling the strategy that Trump himself has found so useful, Rush Limbaugh said on his show yesterday, “I actually think that we’re trending toward secession,  It can’t go on this way. There cannot be a peaceful coexistence of two completely different theories of life, theories of government, theories of how we manage our affairs. We can’t be in this dire a conflict without something giving somewhere along the way.”  Why not incite violence in an already hate-filled society?

Recall that it was our coming together as a country that gave us the U.S. Constitution, got us through the depression, won two world wars, made the largest, most productive middle class in human history, put a man on the moon, legally removed a criminal president in 1974, brought us civil rights, the women’s movement, and gay rights, as well as all the other accomplishments that made our country what it is.  If indeed it was ever “great,” it was made so by the general agreement that we got along with one another more often than not, and that we refrained from making asinine accusations against one another, e.g., that a great many of our 460,000 election workers, most of them over 60 years old, conspired to depose the president. Divisiveness is the war cry of the outgoing president, but does nothing to negate the progress we’ve made.

If perchance you’d like to celebrate this notion in song, I give you this: