The institutions that used to unite this country now bitterly divide it
Here’s a fun fact: almost half of Americans believe that there will be a civil war in their lifetimes. Less fun fact: they could be right.
To observe the United States today is to watch a country that cannot get on with itself. Some people say that it has always been like this — that there was never any chance of a country as wide and big as America being able to agree on things. These people then point to the genius of the federalist system, and the way in which different states could have different arrangements within the union.
