Do you agree with the statement: United We Stand, Divided we fall?
913345
I think it is important to encourage debate WITHIN the country, as long as the goal is the common good of society.  As far as foreign relations are concerned, we need to unite in the face of the world...much like we did right after 9/11.  Then, I think we need to hold those accountable who use that fragile state of unity to promote personal agendas.  And I never heard of the rich paying a higher percentage than anybody else...in fact quite the opposite.  I think that if you use more, you should pay more, under a 'use' tax.  I think that affirmative action is an unfortunate neccessity, and should be challenged when it infringes on other's rights.  The more I make, the more I pay in taxes...but it doesn't stop me from making more.  I don't think there is any need to declare english as our language...we all speak it, and if you don't your life is more difficult.  Diversity is a good thing, for everyone, as is encouraging people to get out of the ghetto.  I think that using race to determine that is wrong, but rather use socioeconomic situations to determine where the help goes.  Women working greatly benefitted men as well, so we should encourage diversity in the work place.  At this stage in the game, if you don't you won't be competitve, so I don't think it is neceassary to mandate, via law, that people use it.  I agree with the faith thing, and anybody who says 'liberals are taking god out of my everyday life' are not too resolved in their own faith.  Nobody can take my god from me, or out of my everyday life.  Nor can they force me to recognize their's...so I believe in separation of church and state.  And I don't believe that those who work the hardest make the most.  I've seen several single mothers working 2 waitressing jobs just to get by, and I would never say that someone with 4 weeks of vacation a year, a 9-5 job, and benefits works harder than she does.  IMO
894909
Disagreement in and of itself is NOT the problem.\n\nIt is how we deal with the disagreement.  Do we respect each other's opinions?  Or do we just claim that people who disagree with our way our going to Hell?\n\nDo we let the disagreements get in the way of the practice of love and making the world a better place and especially helping the poor people?\n\nThe choice is ours.  We make it every day.
418315
Neither, I think the line is somewhere in between all of the party's ideas.  But, there is something I want to say...Republican, Democrat, or whatever you are, we should support our President and his decisions.  Even if we don't agree, we as a whole United States voted for him.  Now that he's in term, it's not about ourselves as singles-it's about us as a United States.
791283
I agree.\n\nBe blessed.
484518
Not many times will you find me agreeing with you over something like this. \nBut some thing like this seems to have been put out before. Only thing i can see wrong with it. \nIs that you will always find that one side will never agree. \nno matter how good any solution is. \nMy idea would be to get all the coalition forces out of there. \nArm all sides Equally let them sort it out once and for all with NO outside help from ANY other country. \nLast group standing gets the Country. \nAnd the rest of the world accepts them no matter who has won.
611114
No, it's not.  I had to think about this for awhile, and recite the pledge to myself, before I came to this answer.  Nowhere in the pledge does it say that the US is better, or that we should place the flag above everything.  It is simply saying that the individual is forming an alliance with the US of A.  The country supports you, and you support the country.\n\nI pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of America.  To the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.\n\nI will say this daily, and mean every word of it.
906801
At this point, I think the only way for that to happen is if we all really understand how little time we have left before anything we do will not make any difference.  We face serious challenges in our immediate future, and if we don't adequately deal with them, it won't matter what name you call the other side.  We must work together.  If we don't, it will either show we don't love this country, or it will indicate how uninformed we are.
856030
Seeing as how I agree with every point you've stated............\n\nI believe we should assist those countries that are willing to support our nation's goal of world stability.
968402
as a member, yes. \n\nanytime they defend freedom, ANYBODY'S freedom, they speak for all of us, even the idiots who think they are a bad thing.
666817
Hopefully not, hopefully we will begin to make our own educated decisions on canidates and issues without some mouthpeice for one of the parties, whatever party, telling us how to think or vote. No likely and I won`t hold my breath, but hey,I can wish. United military ? Is it united right now ? Not that I can see or hear.
954918
yes, we should, i'm with you\n\n:> peace\n.
577023
People choose not to be united. God gave us free will to do what we want.
828778
you do have a point.\n\nI remember the days after 9-11-01. The American people were truly united. There were no democrats. There were no republicans. We were americans. I remember listening to President Bush speaking to the world, in a special joint session of Congress. I remember crying, because the world as we knew it had changed. All americans, almost without exception, were united and behind the President. The controversy of Florida and the Supreme Court Decision in December 2000 were all but forgotten.\n\nThe USA had the support and sympathy of virtually the entire world.\n\nPresident Bush could have and should have done something very positive. He had a golden opportunity to truly fight for peace and justice in the world.\n\nLook where we are now five years later. The world is a mess, less safe, and less stable. The world community is divided in its support for the USA in the war against terror. The country is divided. How could the President squander the unity of the American people, and the support and sympathy of the world? He really botched this one up.
916313
I've always found it odd that a state within the United States would demand keeping the flag of a nation that disavowed being a part of the United States within it's modern flag.\n\nParadoxial in a sense.
347135
No. The biggest division between the left and right is whether we should hold the Constitution as the law of the land, or whether it should be considered a quaint old document that has no bearing on us today.\n\nAnd that division is all about what is considered freedom and liberty, and the role of government in our lives. Sometimes there is common ground, but mostly there is not. You have to fall on one side or the other.\n\nThe biggest cause of the divide between people is that previously, both parties covered a full political range - from conservative to liberal. Today, liberals have consolodated into the Democrat party, and conservatives to the Republican party. This creates division - deep division. \n\nIf you look at history with an unjaundiced eye, you would see very little difference in the politics of GW Bush and JFK (the real one). But Democrats today would consider JFK to be reactionary - to be pushed aside as out of the mainstream, like Lieberman is.\n\nAnd this divide is being increasedby the politicians' hateful rhetoric. Both sides are guilty, but most of the hateful, spiteful, malicious, lying and disgusting speech has been coming from the Democrats of late. The civility is non-existant.\n\nIn conclusion, nobody is going to heal these rifts because we can no longer find enough common ground. We cannot agree on what the Constitution means, we cannot agree on what the goals of our country should be. And politicians and people who wish to bridge the divide will be crushed by the extremes.
742750
I actually agree on both ends... though I believe that all of those things apply to both sides at one point or another in their own way. Extreme Partisanship is tearing this nation apart from it's roots on up. We keep this up, and we'll instigate a third World War and another American civil war in the same sweeping move and be entirely destroyed before it's done.
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I agree - what is the big deal - why can it just be left like it is. \nI grew up reciting it every single day of school & now I vote at every election, I study who is running instead of voting by party only. I support my President no matter what party he is or how much I disagree with him. Saying "one nation under God" did not warp me or any of my friends including a Buddist & an athiest.\nWhat happen to majority rule anyway.