Can the American people set aside politically sponsored divisions to repair our fractured nation?

Yes we could if... First off stop blaming the political parties and the government. Take responsibility for the mess that is modern day America. You, I, and every legal citizen is responsible for the what is wrong with this country.

Then if...if we drop all the false labels. Liberal/Conservative, Right/Left, Black/White, Gay/Straight, and all the other labels (and sub-categories). They're only meant to divide us, not unite us. So start with the one and only label that matters. American. Then look at things like legal citizen/illegal alien, law-abiding/criminal... some labels belong, most do not. Once we get past trying to divide the nation by assigning false labels then we can move forward. There will always be issues and problems but a divided people will never agree (even if they do) because of the invisible line that separates us into groups.

People have gotten so far from reality that if something might be offensive, then it must be. Regardless of the facts. Racism is one of the biggest falsehoods. Now I know there are people who hate another group because a variety of reasons, race being one. But not everyone who disagrees is a racist. Temporarily halting Muslim immigration is not racist. Muslims are not a race, Islam is a religious, social, and political system practiced by a large population of the planet, but they are not a race.

This is just one a many examples of the term being used to create a divide. The protection and desire to maintains ones own society is not racist. But there are numerous other examples of how our nation is divided. The creation of special rights intended to protect one group over another in fact gives false power to one group and fuels the animosity of the other(s). An example is the KKK verses BLM both promote one race over another, both promote hate, both use intimidation and violence as tactics to push their agenda but the KKK is considered a hate group while BLM is not. When was the last time the KKK rioted, interrupted political rallies, or other such activities? The list goes on and on...

Americans are tired. Tried of double standards. Tired of political correctness. Tired of seeing their nation ripped apart by inept politicians. But the one thing they seem to forget... we created this. The legal citizens who sat back and did nothing to prevent this.

So the first step is to take responsibility, eliminate special interests groups, drop the false labels and make our government work for us again. We spend so much in nation building and policing the world, when are we going to come back home and rebuild our nation and police our country?

Most arguments can be boiled down to economics. We have x amount of resources and can't agree how to best use them. So ... No.

Actually, no. Sadly, there is an ideology, oft repeated, oft failed, that is destroying America. How can we ignore it? How can we cooperate with it? How can we even condone it? We must fight it. We must fight it with the ferocity of junk yard dogs. When we return to a state in which opposing parties share a common goal, "a more perfect union" as conceived in the Constitution, there will still be a divide, but at least it can be bridged.