But we aren't "one people" are we?
The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there
is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.
We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same
piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.
I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.

