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It really scares me to think that the answer to your question may be no. Look at places like Sudan and Somalia, Croatia, or even Iraq. Most of the problems in those places are caused by disparate ethnic groups, people with differing or opposing viewpoints, forced together because the political boundaries were originally drawn by Europeans who didn't give a damn about the indigenous population. They struggle against each other, jockeying for position, and it leads to nothing but poverty, hatred, and death.
We are, of course, nowhere near that yet. But I'm afraid if we keep going down the road we're on, it will eventually get that bad. I think the only way to save this country is if we stop dividing ourselves up. Even your question betrays the mentality that is prevalent today... "my side", "their side", "us", and "them". We need to stop thinking of ourselves as liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican, and start thinking of ourselves as Americans once again. This country was built on diversity. Of course we'll have differences of opinion. What we need to do is discuss those differences, work it out, build a compromise, rather than just calling names and screaming at each other. Any other way, I'm afraid, would lead to absolute disaster.
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