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Internet Americans are fractured and divided.

But get us around one another in real life--in grocery stores, at the DMV, in sporting arenas--and we are reminded that our lives are mostly shared. We have a lot in common. Civility and the desire to understand is still there for most of us.

I think the American project still has a long runway.

We’ll surprise ourselves.

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As long as most Americans agree to disagree America will survive and thrive

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No one with a properly functioning brain would believe that Dementia-Biden will be president in 2025. That F.H. Buckley believes that shows his lack of knowledge of American politics.

It was clear that Biden had dementia in 2020; it has only gotten worse in the past two years -- and will further progress in the next year. Even the Democrats are not stupid enough to nominate Biden in 2024.

Biden might choose to run, but he will be hit with reality when some Democrat challenges him -- and either defeats Biden or does well enough to force Biden to quit. This happened to Truman in 1952, and LBJ in 1968 -- and neither of them had dementia.

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But they don't agree to disagree. They shut each other down - on air and the press, in universities, in job recruitment, and in Congress. Wishful thinking is hardly an answer to the challenge the author correctly posits.

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Most Americans know how to agree to disagree

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