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Well, if you voted in the last election in the hope that identity politics would go away,

identity politics being the way of seeing the world through lens of your particular group, your tribe, your identity, the qualities you were born with and the group into which you were born. If you thought that was a bad thing and you thought it would go away after 2004, well, surprise, surprise, it hasn't gone away. In fact, it's accelerated. And a lot of the

conversation we have about it breaks along lines of, well, you know, I'm defending my group. I'm mad at

your group. Let's have a debate about whether my group is good or bad. You shut up because

you're criticizing my group. Okay.

But if you think about it for a second, the debate itself is a sign of, well, impending collapse.

Because no country, especially one that's the size of a continent that has hundreds of millions of people in it, can stick together unless there is a shared identity, a supra identity, identity that looms over all other identities, that holds it together. It's not the force of law that holds countries together. It's the force of custom, the force of language, and the force of shared belief.

What is it to be an American? It's not just a dopey academic question. It really is the question that without an answer will lead to the breakup of the United States and possibly sooner than any of us

expected. And there's no answer for that question right now. And so the question, the meta question is why?

Why can't we decide on something as basic as what it is to be American?

How did we get here?

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