America: A Tipping Point.

America is at a tipping point.

We are living in the most extraordinary period in human history. The opportunities and challenges that we will encounter over the next 30 years are beyond extraordinary — they are beyond our ability to even comprehend.

These changes will test our competency, our sense of community, our beliefs and our resolve. And yet today, at a time when we should be planning and preparing, we are instead divided by race, age, sex, religion, economics, and identity politics. And we are paralyzed by political dysfunction.

For the first time, in the 40-year history of the Gallop Poll, public confidence in government is now measured in the single digits. Researchers, who have examined the last 160 years of our political history, have concluded that we are now more divided than at any time since the civil war.

This level of division and dysfunction is beyond disturbing. With tinderboxes of hopelessness and discontent scattered across our country and a tsunami of technological change on the horizon, it’s incredibly dangerous.

As human beings, we are profoundly interdependent. We always have been — since we first roamed the planet, hunting and foraging for food.

Tribalism is in our DNA. Tribalism, it must be understood, is both a source of unity and division. We…