Healing the Great Divide

Four years ago, a venom-spewing Nancy Pelosi, as newly elected House Minority Leader, set the tone for our political divide. There will be no healing until George W. Bush (who stole the election) is out of office and Democrats are back in power, she vowed. And so it has gone for the past four years.

About the only moment of unity in the past four years came as the dust still settled around the site of the former Word Trade Center, when Congress stood on the steps and sang "God Bless America." Even those who had to choke to get the word "God" past their lips.

And in the Wednesday afternoon wake of John Kerry's concession speech, Pelosi was front and center again, declaring war on George Bush, while telling him that it's up to the Republican leadership to heal the divide. Wrong.

News flash, Nancy . . . the divide is between your extreme left wing of the Democratic Party and the extreme right wing of the Republican Party. A plurality of Americans claim NEITHER party.

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The vast majority of Americans, Democrat, Republican and Independent, populate that thing you are calling the Great Divide - which is in reality, the living, breathing America. We in the Great Divide have seen a political campaign on both sides willing to do anything to win . . . even to the extent of tearing apart our electoral system. The disappointed news pundits today are discussing how George Bush used fear and divisiveness to win the election. Nancy, you'd better rerun the tape . . . and check the votes. You and your kind managed to unite a solid majority of American voters against you. And your unceasing, four-year hate campaign didn't work.

The fact is that a huge number of American voters have, for many years, voted against the candidate they thought would harm the country the least. The candidate who did they least damage to our values. The candidate who would put the country in the least danger. Based on his Senate record, John Kerry should have won that vote . . . since he is outstanding for his lack of accomplishments (he governs best who governs least). But in reaching out to the extremists in his party, Kerry defined himself as the candidate who would do most to damage the value system of the greater number of Americans. In fact, if questions about the handling of the War in Iraq hadn't been a campaign issue, I suspect Bush would have handed Kerry a defeat as bad as any in American history.

So here we are, with two parties who represent a minority of the population of the United States, appealing to the Great Divide for enough votes to carry the day. George W. Bush did a better job of that Tuesday . . . and with results much more resounding than the past several elections. If the Democratic Party wants to survive, it had better send a clear message to the Great Divide that it is going to do a better job of matching the values of America than the Republican Party. Or it may be reminded that our current two-party system is not set in stone . . . it's not guaranteed, no matter how hard the two minority parties have rigged the system in their favor. In any other democratic country, a third party would have already arisen and overwhelmed our two current parties. A party that would truly represent the Great Divide.

Normal Americans grieve for the division in our country. The Pelosi's and her right-wing counterparts only exist because of it.

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