UNITED States of America

Citizens of the United States of America have access to an astounding amount of information. Almost anything we want to know is literally in the palm of our hand. We are a country full of smart folks. Aren't we?

But what do we as a people really get accomplished? I'm not saying we don't accomplish anything. We have done some wonderful things in our history as a nation.

And yet we have only accomplished a fraction of what we should have as a people. Perhaps the main reason is that we are an intentionally divided nation. We like it that way. It seems to a politician's advantage to preside over a divided people. Black against White against Brown against...

We in America are kept so busy arguing and fighting, each group with its own agenda, that very little gets accomplished. If united, the amazing things we would accomplish would increase by an order of magnitude in a relatively short amount of time.

We won't do that. We would have to start caring about each other as a people instead of as a white man, a black woman, a Hispanic woman, or a gay man. Our leaders won't allow that to happen as a united people would pose a significant threat to their hold on power. Divided people don't get much done and are much easier to control. A united people is the shepard. A divided people are the sheep.

That's just the way it is.