"Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand."
Right now our country is severely divided. I don't think anyone can argue that, or the fact that the crack has been widening since about 1990. It is now a chasm and we need to heal, or our future as a country is at risk. It has taken about a quarter century to reach today's status, and it won't be healed quickly. As of yesterday it has been finalized that Trump will become our 45th president. Unless the country now gets behind him, I fear we will not survive much longer. At the same time, we must trust that he has been honest about what he wants to achieve, and his promises were not, as Harry Truman one said, simply a platform one uses to get onto the train. He has promised to rid the government of the waste and corruption now in place. This is likely his most difficult task to achieve, and he needs the cooperation of every (non-corrupt) citizen to achieve. This doesn't mean we all need to agree, but that we are willing to work together for the good of all. If this can happen the United States can once again take its place as the World's moral leader.
as I have said before, I believe the United States is at a tipping point. Will we go over the cliff, or will we retreat, reevaluate, and reconstruct our path forward? In another month we will have a new and unproven president. He campaigned on making our country great again. Will he be able to lead us through the battle to reemerge as the world leader, or will he fail? In four years we will do it again. If he turns out to be a good leader and the future looks good, he will likely be given another four years. If not, he will likely be cast out as a failure. I predict that there will be no middle ground. There will be no acceptable president who did an acceptable job. The situation today is not all that different from the country faced by Lincoln when he was elected. NOTE: I am not comparing Trump to Lincoln! I am saying the situation is similar to that in 1860, when the political division centered on whether slavery should be discontinued, and therefore whether the southern states would secede and form their own country. There is actually a comparison of Lincoln's and Trump's situation as well. Lincoln had left the Whig party and joined the Republicans. It is also interesting that Lincoln was not expected to win the nomination. He did have political experience, but was apparently not seen as a strong candidate.
The story is well known. Lincoln proved a strong leader who made the correct decisions, and a willingness to do what was right and not always what people wanted. As a result he is considered one of the great presidents. What will the next four or eight years look like. Predictions are for a failed presidency, It is alway an easy task to meet that expectation. In our current situation, Trump has the opportunity to join the ranks of great presidents. If he truly solves our problems, reunites the country and, indeed, makes us great again, I predict this will be his legacy. There will be no middle ground. In fact, he is getting a good start. Not everyone agrees with his choices for cabinet members, but there is no question but it is a very strong cabinet. No, he is not another Lincoln. If history views him as a great president, it will not be as a copy of Lincoln, but on his own abilities under a similar circumstance.
