"Our great country has been divided for decades." DECADES????

[Tom Rinaldo]

No, it's been centuries. Literally. Centuries. Decades is the word you use to describe events of the last twenty, thirty, forty, or maybe even fifty years. 1960 was 57 years ago. MLK Jr. was assassinated roughly 50 years ago.

So when exactly does Trump think America was united? Before the Civil Rights movement? When Blacks still "knew their place"? When America was called White by those in control, and the phrase Affirmative Action had not yet even been uttered?

Trump says he wants to make America Great Again. Well he sure as hell can't mean before racism was a plague on our Nation's soul, because it always has been. Americans of all races have slowly, painstakingly been struggling to make America greater. Much of that work has been done over decades. Those very same decades that Trump believes have left Americans divided. Perhaps he never noticed that America has always been divided, except some of us were always supposed to act invisible, living quietly in actual of de facto segregated communities. Seperate and unequal, and left out of the great American picture show.

America actually has slowly been healing the wounds of our deep division, over decades. Our President obviously views those decades differently.

[procon]

1. Alt-decades aren't the same as real decades. Everyone knows this fact. nt

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. Good point. Plus all time prior to when Trump inherited his first millions is clearly fake history

Since he had no personal role to play in it.

[Initech]

3. Since this country was founded! Even before that!

[democratisphere]

4. Homo Sapiens have always been divided about nearly everything on every surface of this planet.

History just keeps repeating itself.

[Tom Rinaldo]

5. Yes, but that's akin to "background radiation levels"

It's a constant. What gets measured are the spikes, and whether they get controlled. The sad irony of Trump's language is that we have been making progress at addressing our most fundamental national division, during the same literal decades that he says have divided us, and his pubic statements set that progress back.

[democratisphere]

6. I'm not sure we ever make any progress, specially when it is about

racism. Race hatred is multigenerational and apparently does not seem to be going away. Open racism can be suppressed but there is an abundance of closeted racists in this country and throughout the world. Racism alone elected drumpf. It is pathetic.