Dear Reader (Including those of you in prison who would read this “news” letter to inform your decisions come election time in a Sanders administration),
Here’s my succinct request to Donald Trump and all the Democrats and Republicans trying to unseat him.
Stop trying to unify the country.
I’ll wait a minute for those of you who need to clutch your pearls or breathe into a paper bag to compose yourselves.
Okay. Now, if you felt a certain amount of horror, revulsion, or rage at that statement, ask yourself why you want the country unified. (If you felt a sudden burst of sexual arousal, I think you stumbled on the wrong “news”letter.)
Seriously, why is unity good? Think about it, please.
Now as I’ve written a zillion4 times, I think the desire for unity is an evolutionary adaptation. So there’s no need to review all that again, except to say that this doesn’t mean unity isn’t valuable. Love in all its forms, friendship, loyalty, altruism, and all sorts of other things we value are good — or can be good — and they have genetic components too.
But what is it exactly ...
