Thursday, March 2, 2017

A New American Attitude: Unity

We're supposed to be making America great! We can't do it by tearing down fellow Americans. We need unity for the strength of our nation.

Our biggest problems are not illegal immigrants, or global warming, or the economy. We've become a bickering nation, engaged in a social civil war. Our biggest problem is Americans divided. We need unity among our people more than anything else. Unity will make our nation stronger and will help us fix many of the other problems.

The first step toward that unity is caring about each other. We need to adjust our thinking so that we can look at any American (or any person) and have this sort of attitude:

[Thought bubble] "I don't believe in what you believe in, I don't agree with your political choices, I don't like some of the things you do, but as a fellow American and fellow human being, I will treat you civilly and with basic respect. I have faith that you see or feel something that leads you to think and act the way you do, but I just may not be able to see it. I will try to understand your side and I expect that you will try to understand mine."