America's Growing Cultural Divide

The Continental Divide of the Americas – also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide, or simply the Continental Divide – is the largely mountainous divide in North America that determines to which ocean or sea watersheds drain. Waters west of the divide drain into the Pacific Ocean while waters to the east drain into the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the Hudson Bay.

In recent years, America has experienced an even more pronounced divide known as the Culture Wars. Conservatives have one set of values that determines their worldview, and liberals have another… and ne’er the twain shall meet. A recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center surveyed 8,000 adults of which 7,000 were registered voters, and the results couldn’t have been more pronounced.

When asked if society is better off if people make marriage and having children a priority, 59% of prospective Trump voters agreed with the statement compared to just 19% of prospective Biden voters. “If you want to understand why Americans are so divided, look no further than how partisanship affects views on family formation and childbearing,” said Matt Carpenter of the Family Research Council. “If Americans are so divided on something as basic as forming families and having children, then it stands to reason there is not much else that would bring us together.”

On cultural issue after cultural issue, the disparity between conservatives and liberals was astonishing. Pew reported that “88% of Biden supporters say abortion should be legal in all or most cases,” compared to just 38% of Trump supporters who say the same. Likewise, only 23% of Biden supporters agreed with the statement, “Gun ownership does more to increase safety by allowing law-abiding citizens to protect themselves,” compared to 86% of Trump supporters.

Whereas 79% of Biden supporters said that slavery, which was abolished in 1865, still affects Black Americans, only 27% of Trump supporters agreed. However, 59% of Biden supporters embraced transgenderism while just 9% of Trump supporters believed that “Someone can be a man or a woman even if that is different from the sex they were assigned at birth.”

Pew went on to note that support for the idea that biological sex can be changed appears to be reversing. “[A] growing share of voters (65%) say that whether a person is a man or woman is determined by the sex they were assigned at birth,” the report stated, signaling a modest victory for both science and common sense.

Finally, when asked if “The criminal justice system in this country is generally not tough enough on criminals,” 81% of Trump supporters agreed with the statement compared to just 40% of Biden supporters.
As Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said in a recent interview with liberal filmmaker Lauren Windsor for which he was roundly criticized by the Progressive left, “One side or the other is going to win. There can be a working, a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised.”

Alito also agreed with what Windsor clearly intended to be a “gotcha” moment. When asked “if people in this country who believe in God have got to keep fighting for that, to return our country to a place of godliness,” Alito replied, “I agree with you.”

Well, just for the record, I do, too; and so do the vast majority of Trump supporters. Biden supporters? Not so much... hence the growing divide.

God-fearing vs. God-loathing. Basically, it all comes down to this singular question and, as Justice Alito prophesized, only one side can win.

For the sake of future generations – and the survival of our constitutional republic – I pray that the forces of good defeat the forces of evil this November and for the rest of American and world history.