Unity

Starting in the 1950’s and growing in the 1960’s there was a push to unify the country. The civil rights bill accelerated the idea and the acceptance of mixed marriages increased from 4% in 1958 to 94% in 2021. There was a 25-year period where this unity continued to expand. Then things began to change in the late 1980’s starting with the idea of identity politics and the push for unity went out the window. Identity politics is a tendency for people of a particular group to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional broad based party politics. Next streets and buildings were renamed and statues were torn down. This led to cries of defund the police. CRT came in the schools followed by DEI in businesses. People could change genders just by announcing. This led to transmen in women’s private places and gender surgery on children, sometimes without the parents’ knowledge. Teachers were keeping secrets from parents. He and she became they and them. These changes came too fast and around 2015 the people said they had had enough and now the pendulum is swinging back. The move is toward what is called, common sense.