Should There Or Could There Be Unity in the United States?

Today my wife and I drove up separate vehicles to Oregon.  This is the first of a few trips to get moved up.  Straight trip it is less than six hours.  When we got close to the border of California and Oregon, there was a large barn along Highway Five, which on its roof read in gigantic lettering, The State of Jefferson.  If you aren't from the Western United States, maybe you haven't heard of it.  I enjoyed seeing those words.  I hope for that state.  Medford would become part of the new state if it came into being along with part of Northern California.

We stopped for gas in a small town in the mountains, and what stood out to me were, no masks.  Masks should feel weird, but I've been wearing them so long that now no-masks already felt worse.  "What's with you people?"  Lighted signs on almost every overpass encouraged to fight Covid-19.  The State of Jefferson has moved on.  I could imagine dart boards with Gavin Newsome on them. The gas station attendant wore no mask.

As I waited for the bathroom to open for my first public bathroom usage in three months, I listened to the attendant.  He was chatty.  On his own, he complained about the state of the nation.  Not a single mask.  One guy had the Ace Hardware shirt, apparently just finished with work and filling up on his way home.  He informed the attendant that Antifa had stopped in Medford today and would be in that little town, two and a half hours away, tomorrow, wreaking havoc.  The message was, get ready.

For a few days, Americans have confronted Americans everywhere.  The emerging narrative is, we need a president who will bring the country together.  Trump has increased division, won the last election by dividing people.  Biden brings people together and Trump divides people.  People will keep saying that.  What is "bringing people together"?  How does that happen?  It happens by ignoring the differences.  Is that what we want as a country?

The left doesn't want division.  They want complete lock-step agreement, like with Hong Kong and China.  One media.  One education system.  One party.  Unity.  Is more division actually bad?

This country is done with unity.  Division is the permanent state.  I don't know how it will end.  It would be nice to keep freedom as long as we can.  That will require division.  The differences are so significant, so deep, that unity isn't tolerable any more.  Unity would mean capitulation.

I'm going to be fine with division.  I don't accept the other side.  I"m not looking for common ground.  I don't believe it or trust it.  The only alternative I see is some kind of permanent division, two or more separate countries, no more United States.  It's already not united states.  I don't foresee a comeback.  It's going to get worse.

None of what I'm writing here should stop a true Christian, because the New Testament doesn't depend on politics or a particular system of government.  True Christianity will survive the circumstances.  The country may not.