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Swords, armor, castles, cannons, trenches,

tax? Or perhaps it makes you think of bravery, courage, resistance.

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Mondays at nine on National Geographic. I've often said that it feels like we're in a 1776 moment right now in the United States of America.

The political boundaries between the two political parties

aren't exactly what they used to be.

And they're changing in gradual ways.

But sometimes I worry it's less of a 1776 moment and more of an 1860 moment in this country.

There's now two kinds of coffee, two places where you get your pillows, two places where you get your news,

depending on what kind of American you are,

I worry that there will pretty soon be two kinds of America, depending on what kind of American you are.

And that worries me.

One of the things that's gotten us there, I believe, is the politicization of what we're previously supposed to be non-political or apolitical institutions.

Alexis to Tocqueville, he traveled this country a little over a century and a half ago, and he made the observation that a country this vast, this expansive, geographically, this ethnically and religiously diverse, isn't supposed to stand actually. It isn't supposed to last.

Unless there are certain apolitical institutions outside of the realm of

partisan politics that hold us together,

the sports stadiums of this country,

the labs, the manufacturing facilities in this country,

where you don't know the person next to you

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