Every single day, on every single cable news channel, and across every single social media platform, Americans are told that we're different from one another. That the parties, whichever we identify with, are so diametrically opposed to one another, and that the people they represent aren't the same, that we will never be a true united nation. The right is one way, the left is another, and independents don't exist.
Not in any real way, anyways.
We're told we have to constantly engage in internet fist-fights, otherwise the other side will win. And we're told that we have to hate each other because we don't value the same things. But over the course of the last month, due to a group of elected representatives' desire and need to appease the extractive industries that prop their campaigns up through the proposed selling of our public lands, that's been so thoroughly disproved, it should be positively farcical if we are ever to believe those same "truisms" ever again.
