Civil wars are perhaps the most tragic and
bitter, when a country goes to war on itself – and it’s brother against
brother, homesteads destroyed by other compatriots.
Today,
the United States of America seems to be at war with itself
again. Not yet an all-out bloodletting as in the Civil War
of 1861-65, but nevertheless the nation seems to be plunging
into an internecine process of shredding itself, pulling
down the very edifice of the state.
There’s even reports of married couples
splitting in divorce because of the growing political divisions.
The governing business
of running the country is held hostage by incessant political
scrapping; the institutions of governance appear in meltdown
from eroding authority.
This time around, it’s not
northern states versus the south, or over industrialists wanting
to usurp landowners, or moral questions of race and slavery. The
current war is due to powerful factions within the political class
not willing to accept the election of Donald Trump.
