How Did We Get This Way

Everywhere I look I find people who want to divide us over one thing or another. I look and find hate between people who don't even know one another and wouldn't even take the time to bother and try to know one another. How did it get like this. I know that America has never been fair to everyone, and although I may have been on the poorer side of the economy I wasn't an object of discrimination, but today no matter where you stand on almost anything you will be hated just by moving. The north south divide is huge in both religious and political arenas. I can't get over a spirit of despair sometimes at the complete disconnect we have in this country between the rich and the middle class, the democrats and republicans, the religious and the secular, gay and straight, young and old. How did a country with so much promise for the world become a place where nothing can get done because everyone is right and nobody will give an inch for the common good. Progress has stopped folks if you haven't noticed and the decline that happened to so many before us is happening to us. We can't solve problems any more we can only hate anybody who suggests an answer different from our own. God is weeping over us, because no matter what side your on, it feels like selfish pride controls all of it. We could be a beacon of hope instead we sow the seeds of our own destruction. Throw them all out of power and we will have just another faction in the midst of the mess that won't give an inch either. I'm sorry I watched too much news today and read to many internet commentaries. I should have taken smaller bites maybe then i wouldn't have gotten sick.