When you look at countries that are unified and act as a cohesive state such as Switzerland, Korea, Norway, or Singapore, what they have in common is culture.
Los Angeles is nothing like Wichita. Beverly Hills is nothing like Miami. Multiculturalism produces many great subjects such as art, food, music, dance, poetry and great looking kids. But with amazing advantages comes equal disadvantages. These include racial tensions, religious tensions, political tensions, and gender identity strife.
Biden will probably fail at unifying our country though I hope not. How do you unify those who appreciate civil war monuments and "Dukes of Hazard" reruns with BLM supporters and Cardi B music videos?
The only way the United states would come together would be by way of a terrible unifying threat that scares the hell out of the nation or a "Grand White Swan" payout like universal basic income.
I kind of entirely disagree with the your read on the situation. The struggles that America has aren't that it doesn't have a common culture, the struggles are that it has too many veto points in its political process so it is extremely difficult for popular majorities to execute on a political vision, and it is extremely difficult for the population of the country to hold their leaders accountable when the multiple veto points lead to a diffusion of responsibility. The struggle we have is that popular majorities cannot enact their policy preferences, and then do not receive electoral feedback based on the policies they enact. America doesn't need a common culture, it needs a better feedback loop for things to go from idea -> popular will -> political power -> policy change -> impact on the people.
This ^ 100%. Sure the election process may be democratic but the way bills and laws are passed are not. The power is in a handful of people who don’t represent the will of people. Instead we’ll see painful 4 years where things get blocked on the merit of “Democrats wrote this bill therefore it must be rejected and vice versa”.
Neither Switzerland nor Singapore has a unified culture. People from German speaking Zurich are not the same as french Speaking Geneva or Bern.
Likewise for Singapore there is a community of Tamils, Malays, Chinese etc.
I grew up in extremely multicultural environment and can assure you that there were no identity issues. These issues popup once class/money imbalance pops up.
At the root of it all is wealth disparity. The rest of it is just a facade.
Los Angeles is nothing like Wichita. Beverly Hills is nothing like Miami. Multiculturalism produces many great subjects such as art, food, music, dance, poetry and great looking kids. But with amazing advantages comes equal disadvantages. These include racial tensions, religious tensions, political tensions, and gender identity strife.
Biden will probably fail at unifying our country though I hope not. How do you unify those who appreciate civil war monuments and "Dukes of Hazard" reruns with BLM supporters and Cardi B music videos?
The only way the United states would come together would be by way of a terrible unifying threat that scares the hell out of the nation or a "Grand White Swan" payout like universal basic income.