Unfortunately, it has become routine to see diatribes traded on why we need to make America great again, or why it is already great. These types of discussions are targeting the wrong goal. It is easy to be derisive and divide people in the name of defending what you value. What is more abstract is finding a way to work together to determine how we can solve the current problems we as a country face. For example, border security in the southwest is a concern for many. On the opposite side of that, building an expensive physical barrier to solve that problem is a concern for others. Knowing this, what are new ways we can tackle this issue to the satisfaction of both sides? Complicated, perhaps, but not impossible. It only becomes difficult when we blindly follow an ideology of the solely red, or solely blue rather than that of the red, white and blue.
I look forward to a day when I see cause for collaboration presented by Americans, instead of cause for contention.