Bill Maher on the divisiveness between the Left and Right in the U.S.

We never do anything.  Half the country's having a woke competition deciding whether Mr. Potato Head has a dick and the other half believes we have to stop the lizard people because they're eating babies.  We are a silly people.

~ Bill Maher, "New Rule: Losing to China," Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO), 2:40 mark, March 12, 2021

Joe Biden: "For the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death"

We are intent on not letting Omicron disrupt work and school for the vaccinated.  You've done the right thing, and we will get through this.

For the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm.

~ President Joe Biden, whitehouse.gov, December 19, 2021

Doug Casey on mask wearing and divisiveness

The masks everybody self-righteously wears have become the equivalent of Nazi armbands, or the red scarfs of the old Soviet Union’s Young Pioneers. 

They want people to unite against the enemy, namely people that protest against or don’t wear masks.  The non-PC have become the enemy in large parts of the US.  People in the rural heartland states don’t generally wear masks or take COVID nearly as seriously as the liberal elites on the coast do.  As a consequence, the virus is accentuating the cultural divide between the red people and the blue people.

~ Doug Casey, "Doug Casey on the Dangers of the Growing “Snitch Culture” in the US," International Man, March 10, 2021

Rick Newman on Biden unifying the country

Biden has the temperament to be a unifying force in Washington, with many deep friendships in both parties and an affable personality resistant to grudges. He won’t be attacking everybody who disagrees with him or criticizes him, as Trump did.  And it’s important to start his term with a civil tone that might calm frayed nerves in many corners of the country. 

But come on.  The United States is deeply divided for reasons that go far beyond Trump, and much of it involves willful self-deception by Americans clinging to illusions they prefer over reality.  Biden can’t change that and it would be a waste of effort to try.

~ Rick Newman, "Biden should forget about unifying the country," Yahoo Finance, January 20, 2021

James Anderson sees a "low-level civil war in America in the next five years"

I am deeply pessimistic - I think it is a race in America between all the technological changes that have taken place and, to be blunt, societal collapse. A low-level civil war in America in the next five years is the most likely answer.

~ James Anderson, partner and head of Global Equities, Baillie Gifford, " 2021 Barron's Roundtable, January 11, 2021

Kevin Duffy on divisiveness and the state

The state is masterful at creating conflict: left vs. right, rich vs. poor, black vs. white, male vs. female, us vs. them. This is meant to distract us from the real conflict: the state living at the expense of the rest of us, i.e., parasite vs. host.

~ Kevin Duffy

Walter Williams on the root of today's political divisiveness

Perhaps the most tragic aspect of today’s division is that much of it is a byproduct of our education system where young people are taught to hate our nation’s founders and founding principles.  However, it is these principles, though practiced imperfectly, that have created the freest and richest nation in mankind’s history.  The question is if our nation can survive the widespread anti-Trump hate.

~ Walter Williams, "Is Getting Trump Worth It?," LewRockwell.com, October 28, 2020

Kevin Duffy on politics and humanity

Politics divides, humanity unites.

~ Kevin Duffy

Jeffrey Tucker on divisiveness in America

People who are unhappy in their own lives are more prone to lash out at others with cruelty and hatred. That principle seems almost to sum up American culture today.

~ Jeffrey Tucker, tweet, September 4, 2020

Ludwig von Mises on nationalism and socialism, two sides of the same divisiveness coin

Nationalist ideology divides society vertically; the socialist ideology divides society horizontally.

~ Ludwig von Mises