{"id":5800,"date":"2022-08-12T10:03:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=5800"},"modified":"2023-07-13T11:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:24:14","slug":"hanging-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2022\/08\/12\/hanging-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From the Beginning<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States has always been a nation-divided.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even at the Second Continental Congress, the differences between New England, the Atlantic colonies and the South were apparent.&nbsp;&nbsp;They lived different kinds of lives, with different cultures.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was a struggle to find any kind of unity, even in the face of British troops threatening on many fronts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision to declare independence was rife with division.&nbsp;&nbsp;Eight of the fifty delegates never signed the document.&nbsp;&nbsp;Three states originally held back; Pennsylvania and South Carolina voted no, and New York abstained from voting.&nbsp;&nbsp;It wasn\u2019t until the final day of debate, that Pennsylvania and South Carolina joined in.&nbsp;&nbsp;New York didn\u2019t actually commit until August, more than a month after the \u201cFourth of July\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And tradition has it that, as the delegates left the formal signing at the Pennsylvania State House, the senior statesman Benjamin Franklin said:&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cWe must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Common Cause<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States has often been a nation of division as much as unity.&nbsp;&nbsp;There has always been economic divides, between the \u201chaves\u201d and the \u201chave nots\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;What did Thomas Jefferson of Virginia and John Hancock of Massachusetts have in common?&nbsp;&nbsp;They both were wealthy men, and the wealth of both was impacted by British regulations and restrictions.&nbsp;&nbsp;They found common cause not just in the intellectual foundation of their new nation,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c\u2026that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.&nbsp;&nbsp;That to secure these rights,&nbsp;&nbsp;governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also agreed on the \u201ccomplaints\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>\u201cFor cutting off our&nbsp;&nbsp;trade with all parts of the world:<\/em><\/li><li><em>For imposing taxes on us without our consent:<\/em><\/li><li><em>&nbsp;He (King George III) has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our town<\/em>s<em>&nbsp;&nbsp;And destroyed the lives of our people.\u201d<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Great Britain was cutting into their wealth, as well as their liberty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Citizenship<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But the ultimate time of division in American history was the Civil War, when a section of the nation determined that they could no longer remain united as states.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was a battle for power, based in the determination by the minority South that the foundation of their economy, enslavement, would ultimately be outlawed by the majority North.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But something to remember.&nbsp;&nbsp;Not every Southern was in favor of secession, and not every Northerner was in favor of waging war to save the Union.&nbsp;&nbsp;There were abolitionists in the South, there were Copperheads in the North.&nbsp;&nbsp;And, not unlike our current climate, there were many who simply wanted to live their own lives in peace, but were forced to take sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In eighth grade American History we taught that before the Civil War, we were citizens of Ohio, or Virginia, or Texas; not so much the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;In my day (back in the late 1960\u2019s) we were taught of the \u201cagony\u201d of Robert E. 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Or it was the \u201cgood\u201d media of nationwide radio.&nbsp;&nbsp;Everyone shared in the adventures of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8JSroiDGJ3E\">The Shadow<\/a>\u201d (\u201c<em>Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Shadow knows!!!).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>And Americans also heard the voice of their President, Franklin Roosevelt, in Fireside Chats that reassured them that the government and the Nation cared about their privations in the Great Depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We shared as a nation the two World Wars, and the economic highs and lows that came before and after.&nbsp;Unity is shared experience, and as a Nation the United States shared all of those calamities and triumphs together.&nbsp;&nbsp;Newspapers, telegraphs and telephones, radio and ultimately television served the purpose of nationalizing a culture.&nbsp;&nbsp;Think about this \u2013 why do all the \u201cnational\u201d news anchors have the same accent, in a nation with so many variations on speech?&nbsp;&nbsp;It is because we have our \u201cregional\u201d accent for local use, and a \u201cnational\u201d accent as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But now we have found that the media that served to help make us a nation, is acting to divide us.&nbsp;&nbsp;We hear our \u201cnews\u201d in the same \u201caccents\u201d, but they tell us wildly different stories.&nbsp;&nbsp;And while we can (as I\u2019m doing now) sit in the sun in our own backyards and access seemingly all of the information of the world on our phones and computers, we pick and choose sources that match our preconceived beliefs.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our \u201cnews\u201d now is slanted to our differences. Rather than serving to unify, it serves to divide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lone Wolf<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>How big a deal is it?&nbsp;&nbsp;Yesterday a man, polarized and divided, went out and tried to kill FBI agents in order to fulfill the \u201cdestiny\u201d he learned through his media.&nbsp;&nbsp;He succeeded only in killing himself, but who knows what will happen next.&nbsp;&nbsp;David Hogg, one of the survivors of&nbsp;&nbsp;the Parkland school shooting and a founder of March for Our Lives, tweeted: \u201cWhen (the $%#@) will we stop acting like all these \u201clone wolves\u201d are lone wolves?\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are being \u201csent\u201d through their media, and they could be packed into more than just \u201clone wolves\u201d as easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201dlone wolf\u201d was shot in a cornfield near Wilmington, Ohio.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was just down the road from the \u201c73 Grill\u201d, a restaurant and bar I\u2019ve eaten in a couple times.&nbsp;&nbsp;I have family living not far away from that cornfield, and that restaurant.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Choosing Lines<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone asked me \u201cwhich side\u201d of the line I&#8217;m on.&nbsp;&nbsp;I had to think about what that meant.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Mason-Dixon line was a fairly clear demarcation for the Civil War, but the \u201clines\u201d for our current divide are less certain.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is more urban and rural, coastal versus central.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet the \u201clone wolf\u201d shooter of yesterday lives nearby here, in Columbus.&nbsp;&nbsp; I thought Columbus would be on the \u201cother side\u201d of the line, I guess, the urban, \u201cBlue\u201d side.&nbsp;&nbsp;But he lived there, and I live here, in &#8220;Red&#8221; suburban Ohio,&nbsp;&nbsp;with the MAGA flags down the street.&nbsp;&nbsp;Where are the lines for our possible Civil War??<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the Abolitionists in the Confederacy, and the Copperheads in the Union; the lines of our demarcation are blurred.\u00a0\u00a0We are divided by news source, more than anything else.\u00a0\u00a0And Franklin\u2019s statement is a correct today as it was on July 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0in 1776:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWe must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America, to survive our current disunion, must find a way to hang together once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Beginning The United States has always been a nation-divided.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even at the Second Continental Congress, the differences between New England, the Atlantic colonies and the South were apparent.&nbsp;&nbsp;They lived different kinds of lives, with different cultures.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was a struggle to find any kind of unity, even in the face of British troops threatening on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2022\/08\/12\/hanging-together\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hanging Together&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hanging Together : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A &quot;lone wolf&quot; went out to kill FBI agents yesterday. 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