Yugoslavia Doesn't Exist, Germany Does
Politicians put different peoples together and formed a nation They called it Yugoslavia. It didn't work. It couldn't. Different peoples are different. Yugoslavia doesn't exist any longer. Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union met the same fate.
Politicians tore a people apart. They called it East Germany and West Germany. It didn't work. It couldn't. A people are one. Germany exists today. Vietnam met the same fate, as will Korea.
America began as an experiment to prove otherwise, to prove different peoples can live as one nation, on the condition that they all passionately share an existential belief. In America's case, the existential belief was in limited government and individual freedoms endowed by their Creator. Perfect unanimity did not exist, but sufficient unanimity existed. Compromises were made in furtherance of their shared existential belief: the Electoral College, three co-equal branches of government with separately-enumerated limited powers, a bi-cameral legislature; guaranteed individual freedoms in the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments, and limited government guaranteed by the 10th Amendment.
When the American experiment faced the existential hurdle of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln glued the different peoples together by force of arms. The peoples' differences weren't limited to the issue of slavery; it included the issue of States' rights versus federalism. To put it another way, the issue was more-limited government versus more-unlimited government.
At the time, it was North versus South. Today it is nationwide: coastal States versus flyover States, elites versus deplorables.
Deplorables believe in God, the Bill of Rights, their right to raise their children with their morality and family values, and their right to elect their government representatives without elites interfering. Elites believe all that is deplorable.
How much longer can President Abraham Lincoln's glue hold together different peoples who don't share anything, not even their original existential belief in limited government and individual freedoms endowed by their Creator?
How much longer can President Abraham Lincoln's glue hold together different peoples, when their very own elected representatives deny the possibility of any compromise about anything?
Different peoples cannot be forced to live together as one nation. The survival of America is possible, but only if We the People come together in sharing an existential belief in something.