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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question. I am so exhausted by the vitriol. Are we going to get past this time in our country? If so, what gets us there? If not, how long can we survive like this?[/quote]

Get to know your neighbors better. If they are like my neighbors, they are great people.[/quote]

I actually think we should institute 1-2 years of mandatory service between HS and college. Kids could opt to serve in the military or do some type of community service for which they would get paid. This could achieve several things:
1) Bring people from different backgrounds, geographies, religions, etc.. together to work and get to know one another. Just like the military always has done
2) Give a nudge to those who wouldn't traditionally serve in the military a chance to do so and open the eyes of the more privileged to what the military does. Could even lessen future chances of war
3) The community service aspect could help with needed social services and infrastructure
4) Kids get a sense of the wider world and those heading to college may do so with more purpose/better sense of what they want to study and those not previously college-bound may be more inspired to go.

There are some great minds out these who have put these thoughts together, I am just repeating them. But I really think something that forces people from different parts of the country to work together could go along way.
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I agree with a lot of this. Alternatively, the south could secede as they threatened in 2008, and we let them. But they would have to use their own currency, and deal with Mexico & other international relations on their own.

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