We seem not only to disagree with each other more than ever, but to
have come almost to detest one another. Politically, culturally,
racially, we seem ever ready to go for each others’ throats.

One half of America sees abortion as the annual slaughter of a
million unborn. The other half regards the right-to-life movement as
tyrannical and sexist….

In what sense are we one nation and one people anymore? For what is a
nation if not a people of a common ancestry, faith, culture and
language, who worship the same God, revere the same heroes, cherish the
same history, celebrate the same holidays and share the same music,
poetry, art and literature?…

Consider but a few issues on which Americans have lately been
bitterly divided: school prayer, the Ten Commandments, evolution, the
death penalty, abortion, homosexuality, assisted suicide, affirmative
action, busing, the Confederate battle flag, the Duke rape case, Terri
Schiavo, Iraq, amnesty, torture.

Now it is death panels, global warming, “birthers” and
socialism. If a married couple disagreed as broadly and deeply as
Americans do on such basic issues, they would have divorced and gone
their separate ways long ago. What is it that still holds us together?

The European-Christian core of the country that once defined
us is shrinking, as Christianity fades, the birth rate falls and Third
World immigration surges. Globalism dissolves the economic bonds, while
the cacophony of multiculturalism displaces the old American culture…

Is America, too, breaking up?

~ Patrick Buchanan in a September 10 WorldNetDaily.com column, via Drudge