The country is divided. You are either right wing or left wing, you live in a blue state or a red state and if you disagree you are unpatriotic. Political candidates, well, at least the only two allowed to be recognized as such, spend their time bashing each other. The media dishes the dirt on each of them and not so evenly perhaps. From both sides, we hear how bad things are, how we are under threat, and how our way of life is being threatened. Frightened and cowed by the political rhetoric, frustrated and distracted by the media and desperately fact checking every statement, an endless job, we turn our anger toward each other. We draw lines in the sand about whether or not standing for the national anthem, itself a song about war and written while witnessing an attack, constitutes treason. We support police, law and order even when we see fellow citizens shot and killed over nothing or at least for no capital crime. We support protesting those actions and yet are hard pre...