The Blue Board

It seems this board is pretty divided in terms of where they stand politically. I'm not here to promote or demote one side or another in any form or fashion, nor pitch my personal viewpoint on who should be President. However, I believe what makes the United States strong as a country is unity, regardless of political affiliation. If you all have never read George Washington's farewell address, it is well worth your time:

" The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.

In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations, Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty."

Regardless of what you believe, the more we squabble with one another, the worse off we are. Bipartisanship has caused us so many roadblocks that we're at the point we're almost 2 segregate populations. We don't need to agree, we need to unify. I might be a bit too intoxicated posting this, but I firmly believe we need to treat the POTUS like he was a new coach at our respective college. Give him all the support if he needs to succeed, regardless of whether or not we agree with the hire. I haven't really contributed to one political thread on tBB, but I read all of them and approach them all with objectivity. I hope you do me the same courtesy. This is the greatest country in the world and regardless of what happens it always will be. Good night.