Commentary
America is at war! Not with China or Russia, although we have major conflicts with those two countries. We are at “war” with each other. Neighbors against neighbors; blue states against the red states.
We have been here before, and the level of intensity this time is as potentially damaging as the Civil War of 1861 to 1865.
The thing about international conflicts is that they’re generally resolved with a clear victor and life goes on. Civil wars, ironically, leave internal wounds that never seem to heal. They fester and become inflamed, and the tensions flare repeatedly.
In 1861, we fought about the institution of slavery, which at its core was about citizenship. Now, we are again fighting about citizenship, although in different forms. Should an individual citizen have a right to end the life of another “citizen,” yet unborn, but about to be brought into the world?…