Boy have the roaring 2020s been difficult in America!
Some common themes thatbrewed up in the’60s. Then you had the doves and hawks; warring tribes divided on the Americann involvement in Vietnam. Now theres a chasm between red hats and non-red hats, mostly partisan, but eventhe red hats consider other members of the Republican party who don’t adhere strictly to the red hat ideology to be traitors against America. Amplified partisan divide drove friends, families, and colleagues were driven apart and expected to operate as enemies. Those are indicators of tumult leading up to civil wars in history. The 2016 US General Election struck a hard blow of division, 2020 came along with the COVID-19 Pandemic, and science and public health became partisan, another opportunity to allow an issue become partanism morphed into sectarianism. It’s all too easy to see the world around us in black & white us vs. them. The reds and the blues. I started putting this playlist together once I started to see the quarantunes lists start to come out. The title is a line out of U2’s “Sunday Blooody Sunday” which was a song in response to the”Troubles’ of Ireland which split families, neighborhoods apart over similar partisanship.that became like a religious war. The differences are real, but we mustn’t let them become so strong that they are ingrained in our total beings, otherwise all is lost.George Floyd, School shootings, immigration, nationalism,vaccines, election 2020, January 6th. We (Americans) mustn’t let differences of opinion become the trenches of war.