"pull together, one way or the other - and stick with it!"

Gee, you have a great talent for stating the obvious. Have you considered that may not be possible? That we are divided into two tribal groups who are bitterly at odds over what policy should be?

Lets see,Trump got more votes in 2020 than any other presidential candidate in US history. EXCEPT FOR BIDEN. He got 49% which looked like this:

42% White

6% Hispanic

1% Black

Oh, that's right, the Republican party is the "White People's" party. Two out if three "White" American's vote Republican.

Why, oh why don't any POC want to vote Republican? It cannot be the racism baked into their social and economic policies. "They are not racist". Ask any Republican and that's what they will tell you. It's just a coincidence that their party membership is 90% White.

So, how exactly do we "pull together" when every few years the racist "Apartheid" party rallies and gets control of the wheel and then drives us into a ditch. Saying "both sides are to blame" is mealy mouthed cowardice or crypto-Republicanism. The two sides are fundamentally different.

Adopting a faux "neutral observer" position and equating the two sides doesn't make you a wise commentator. It makes you a Republican apologist. The time for that BS is over.

"Whose side are you on boy/whose side are you on?"

Because you are right about one thing, these wild swings back and forth are destroying us.