Makes a fine two-colour shroud

The current American situation is markedly more complicated than in times of comparable division the day before the Civil War. Red and Blue electoral zones permeate one another so diffusively that one look at the color-coded US map is sufficient to fathom deepness of the problem for which no fast & furious solution like separation or secession exists, whatever proponents of each mutually incompatible worldviews would support.

The thing is, conflict that had been constantly surfaced since the unexpected triumph of Trumpists looks more akin to social clash during Byzantine Nika riots under Justinian I or (gasp) in Iran on the eve of Islamic revolution. In the latter case, past had stomped modernity only to sprout strange chimera of socially oriented seclusive religious conservatism in shadows cast by soft power of the future.

Timeline isn’t restored, it simply has been assigned another winding number and supplied with a fashionable winding sheet.

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