They are so mad they cheated and still lost. This country is going to take so long to heal after this. It really makes me sad.

I don’t think you will heal and honestly I don’t think you deserve to. America as a country hasn’t really been a force for good. For yourselves or for the world. Also I want to point out that what I’m about to say about America is me talking about the country as a whole. I’m not talking about the people in it, I’m talking about the opinions, decisions and foreign presence of the country. A lot of the time people mistake criticizing a country for criticizing its voters. While the voters have a part to play, and a big one, that’s not necessarily who I’m talking about here. If I say “you” I also just mean the country, not you curious_illusions or you the voter. I’m Canadian so that also should be said I guess. Just FYI.

It requires enormous profits, enormous social pressure, or literal wars to get America to move its opinion on fucking anything. And I’m talking about since it’s inception. America is idiotically stubborn and refuses to take in any new points without glacier like movement in the status quo. Moreover, if you could diagnose a country with personality disorders, America would have Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The entire world has to be related to the country in some fashion. America has outright invaded foreign countries for no valid reason. I’m not talking about “WMDs in Iraq”, although that is valid, I’m talking about the constant invasion of foreign democracies to install dictatorships that are sympathetic to America. Supplying arms to foreign insurgents because their de-stabilizing the government is beneficial to America. Nuking a country twice and then imposing its will so heavily that this country ends up adopting the US Constitution (granted, tweaking it to suit them, but still). Or overthrowing dictators because it believes that America has the right to police the planet.

Actually the policing the planet thing is something else entirely. The world that gets used often about that is “America has the obligation to do so”. Why? No one asked you. Is it because you have the worlds biggest military in some big-truck-tiny-dick syndrome but in Country form? The obligation only comes from the narcissism of putting yourself in a position where the world has to listen to you. The constant psychotic levels of pressure that America puts on foreign countries because it doesn’t align with American values. And I mean values. Sure, a lot of it is often done because profits, but a lot of it is straight up done over values. America threatened to impose heavy trade restrictions with Canada when we wanted to legalize weed in the 90s. Closing the border I get if the drug is illegal in the US, but trade restrictions? Another example of American Imperialism.

So by now, if you’re still reading this at all, you’re probably wondering what the absolute hell this has to do with your original point of the country healing. This is my point. You can’t. All of that shit I listed above (and way more that I had typed out and deleted) is directly because of one extremely simple thing. You’re too big and have too many people. It’s ended up with everyone willingly dividing themselves into regional groups with heavily entrenched positions. People from the north just don’t get people from the south. The opposite is true. People from the East Coast don’t quite get people from the West coast. The opposite is true. You’re all holding knives and then decided to cram up under one umbrella, the Federal Government. A government that cannot rule for the people because the people have schizophrenia. Republicans and Democrats are not compatible and never really have been. The people, as a whole, cant decide on anything collectively while the people, collectively, are fucking dying. You’re killing each other through crass social policies, literal mass murder, and deprivation of medical assistance. The only thing you have in common is a paradoxical patriotism for the country none of you can agree on!

America needs to split into multiple countries. 2, 3, 5. Whatever. This just can’t keep going. You’re going to eventually destroy yourselves, and considering the utterly unnecessary size of that tiny-dick-syndrome military, the rest of the world in the process.

I feel like you have a poor understanding of a lot that you talk about. So let’s just focus on the current politics and if America can heal.

This issue isn’t a east coast vs west coast thing. This is a rural vs urban issue. That’s reflected in voting in major cities vs rural areas of the same states. For that America isn’t the only place suffering from this issue. It’s why you can see fascism in general on the rise in a lot of countries. The same reason it has always worked, really. It makes life easier to blame someone/anyone else for issues. Which is the lifeblood of fascism.

It’s not that young people are leaving rural areas because they feel like there’s limited opportunity, but it’s the liberals corrupting them. It’s not that their industry is dying, but people in the cities are attacking them. It’s not that pay is poor and the work is hard so people will look for other jobs, it’s migrants/lazy workers/greedy people wanting more.

Fascism is able to latch onto these and say we’ll punish the X so that your issues go away, and once they’re gone life will be perfect. Oh X wasn’t the issue, well it’s really Y, and so on. All that’s ever needed is the correct person to stand up saying elect me and I’ll punish the X,Y,Z and it’ll make us better again, but always tends to ignore/help the real issue.

We need to increase opportunities in the rural areas, there will still be push back but it’ll help the pain of people leaving and industries dying. Need to raise working standards so immigrants aren’t abused, but also may attract other people. That way it can’t be so easy to blame them. And need to fix where wealth is leaving well nearly everyone. A poor town stays poor if most of the goods and services are imported and the people providing them don’t reinvest into the area.

All of that is still a simplification, but as I said these issues aren’t local to the US. It’s just consuming mostly US news it’s easy to miss other countries struggling with the same issues.

The actual ‘rural’ population of the us represents 18% of the population. So the theory that ‘rural vs urban’ is the defining demographic of the political division in this country has a math problem.