America doesn't have one culture.

It doesn't have one religion. Myths persist that it was created to be Christian, but that's just a myth.

Only some of the founding fathers, many of whom were elitists, were Christian. John Hancock was a psychopath, if not a narcissist. He fomented the Boston Tea Party because the English had gotten rid of the tea laws that had caused him to become a smuggler, and he realized he was earning more money as a smuggler than when the laws weren't "against" his business. He was always self-serving. His large signature is typical of someone with a grandiose sense of self-worth (a characteristic of narcissism which, in turn, is an aspect of psychopath, formally called Antisocial Personality Disorder [APD]).

It doesn't have one language. There has never been an official language. That's because the country was built by and on the backs of immigrants and stolen from natives. And, when more labor was needed, immigrants were welcomed. When white supremacists in power felt that the ratio of whites to non-whites was too skewed, they would instigate anti-immigrant campaigns on the state or national level. If they couldn't find a good excuse for it, they'd make something up.

There is no "race" that has one culture. Not Whites, Blacks, Asians, Africans, Natives. For that matter, "race" is a social concept and is not valid because it lumps people together based on very superficial criteria and provides stereotypes that are easily proven false. Using "race" is just an excuse for racism, which reared its ugly head in the USA centuries ago and was supported by racists of all stripes who fed the public lies about the "second-class" and "sub-human" people they didn't like and weren't of their ethnicity or religion.

The vast majority of Americans live in the lower class now. There are few people in the middle class, certainly far less than when I was young. That drift started in the early years of my life, and has increased exponentially over my lifetime.

Incomes have gone from a place of relative worth for workers vs bosses to an obscene amount of money for the bosses and, in general, wages have either stagnated or decreased since the 1970s while inflation and CoL have shot through the roof. The distribution of wealth has become catastrophically skewed, which really started when Reagan introduced the lie of "trickle-down economics". This system transferred more power and money to the top and more burdens and insecurity to the bottom. FULL STOP.

The elitist agenda has pushed all of this. They spread lies about the reasons the poor are poor, the criminals are criminals, the stupid are stupid, and so on, but the real reasons are generally directly and/or indirectly attributable to the actions of the wealthy and powerful. They've dumbed down the educational system in a way that keeps a steady supply of employees while preventing most from learning how to have their own businesses; dumped garbage and even toxic waste in the poorest communities; lied to the public about toxic substances in their products (tobacco, lead, PFAS, DDT, PCBs, CFCs, etc.) and were protected by Congress repeatedly and continue to do the same thing to this day (Congressional hearings are a FARCE); refused to give cost of living increases to base pay and raises; pooled tax money where the rich are instead of distributing it where it is needed most, which would decrease food and financial insecurity, improve the environment and education, and make America more prosperous; and so much more. They have taken advantage of identifiable groups of people, whether they're held together by many commonalities (e.g. such as a religious group) or only a few (e.g. physical characteristics), by using false information, emotional oration, psychological manipulation, dedicated media bias (both traditional AND socmed), spies and more. They keep us divided so that they can increase their wealth and power while they lie to the groups they've co-opted to keep them in line. They bribe medical professionals, influencers and scientists to lie so that they can further increase their wealth, power and control. One of the groups that is MOST often targeted are religious groups because they are easier to take control of and subvert due to blind faith and blind loyalty, fears and bigotry.

I've seen this happen so many times in the USA and around the world.

America is being torn apart by the greed of the wealthy and powerful and it's the common people, people like you and me, who ALWAYS pay the price.

You can't trust politicians and lawyers, by and large, although there are a minority who are good people. The same holds true for the ultra-wealthy and, in fact, even more-so because those people who collect unnecessarily large pots of wealth and power are driven by mental illness - they will NEVER stop trying to get more, even if it destroys the world in some cases.

Stop listening to the rabble-rousers, the fear-mongers, the hate trolls and the sappers: they will only make things worse. Watch for people who say things like "TDS", "socialist", and "communist" or otherwise try to make you hate another group because those are the people who will make it all fall down.

Look for the people who are promoting unity, understanding, community, respect, calm conversations, fairness, equality, and the understanding that we are ALL humans and ALL deserve the same things. I know that's a bitter pill to swallow for some people, but as long as we let those others control us, we will NEVER advance as a species in a way that makes any difference whatsoever.

Look to your family, your friends, your neighbors for support, love, tolerance and acceptance. If someone is being mean to you, remember that they may have personal issues going on that make it difficult for them. We don't know the situations of the other people.

The one last thing I can tell you from my experience is that, when you invest yourself in what a politician is saying, you become theirs. They own you and only have to pull your strings. Don't be a puppet. Think. Research from all sides and never trust that one side has all of the answers.

Remember: Dems and Reps are both corrupt parties. Lefties and righties are both right and wrong. The divisions that are tearing apart our country are largely created by those who want to control us, take more money from us, keep us in a perpetual state of struggle and fear, and get more of everything that we already don't have enough of.

America MUST unite against the domestic traitors who have been robbing the country since the start and, especially, since the 1970s!

I chose this to end this essay because all of the pieces that were used to make it represent all of us. We are strong when we stand together. We are easy pickings when we don't.