re: Where is the US of A going? What is the next step?

With great irony at the start of the US Civil War Americans were pretty similar: very few owned slaves (less than 3% owned all the slaves), most were Evangelical Christians, most did not have strong view points on slavery one way or another. The predominant American dream was subsistence farming. And 2% of the homogeneous county died at each other’s hands.

Fast forward 160 years—this country is far from homogeneous—there exists such a divide between conservatives and progressives there is no compromise or middle ground. Our governing body of the nation only agrees on matters of self interest (elimination of Outsider Trump or Outsider Bernie, money launder in the name of Ukraine, etc.)

There exists such a divide of half the country—it may well be time for a divorce.