Oh America.."Beware of the ides of March"

A DIVIDED AMERICA, A DISJOINTED WORLD

Beyond the economic might and the freedom enjoyed by the citizens of the United States, of more importance is the peace to prosper and pursue greatness. However, recent events are worrisome to say the least. America has become compartmentalized along reasoning, opinions and values and injustice has become the platform for the broadcast of its diversity. Gun control issues, religious intolerance, and the ever increasing secular demographic are some evidences of a constantly changing country.

However, the effects of this division and internal strife will reach a catastrophic height if care is not taken. America’s grip on the world is about to loose. A country cannot be divided within its own domain and expect to tackle effectively global issues. The implication of this is that there will be more room for hostile governments to fund terror groups, reduced funding for Africa and aid for development and research and the taking over of the financial market by China with the help of Russia.

China and Russia know that perhaps, the easiest way to defeat a strong United States is not by conventional warfare, but by skillfully, like a snake, hide until the enemy within causes a commotion as to cause its own members to run for ‘safety’. Internal strife and disaffection from within would cause a shift in social loyalty, where, and this is frightening, those who once swore to uphold the integrity and protect the sovereignty of the country soon become tools in the hands of foreign predators. 

When a people are no longer united by a common course, not necessarily through religion or culture, but a collective goal which they live for, a common socially acceptable norm of behaviour, and when there arises a 'we' and 'they' dichotomy, then there is fire on the mountain. Carlifornian fire-fighters can do nothing about such.