What you are saying is that at some point people will give up on the idea of this country as a united whole, and just try to protect themselves in their own regions. It's like the ghost of the civil war has come back and finished what it started, tearing this country in two. Is there a reason this is happening? There is something in the collective conscience or maybe in not facing up to historical crimes that is causing this reckoning to happen. Whatever the reason, it's heartbreaking.
Natalie, I'm not sure that the country will break in two irrevocably. I just don't know. I saw two women leaders at the end of the twenties. I also saw at that time the U.S. taking a lead in sustainability. I saw the Republican Party shriveling. But I don't have a coherent picture of the whole yet. Some psychics see the country breaking apart but I only see a grass roots local movement to make up the federal shortfall in social and other domestic services. It's a good movement. Joyful and empowering, once it takes hold. Sometimes we try to complete the picture but we just can't. Just don't know yet. I think you are going to have a good life, one of empowerment. I think there will be many young people like you.