America 2021: Collaboration or Crisis

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook

An Inability to Agree on Basic Facts.

In One Hundred Years of Solitude, (which ironically includes a rigged election between the Liberal and Conservative Parties), the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez paints a haunting picture of what happens when societies can’t agree on basic facts.

The novel describes a mass shooting of Colombian civilians by government troops, at a banana plantation in 1928, which becomes the background for a mysterious amnesia gripping the people. The government denies the attack, and a single character is left for the rest of the novel trying to convince the town that the massacre ever took place.

On November 3, 2020, America’s Democrats and Republicans engaged in a presidential election that was marred by allegations of voter fraud. How much voter fraud is unknown. Many Republicans and the conservative media believe that the election was stolen, while many Democrats and the liberal media refuse to acknowledge that voter fraud, of any consequence, even exists.

This inability to agree on basic facts underscores the profound division facing America in 2021. And the 45,000 Americans…