America is Diversity

Do you have friends/acquaintances that are unhappy with how things are going in the US? You may know someone who mentions secession as an option for correcting the country's ills. Here is a short list of questions.

How would you make the U.S. be just the way you want it? Who could/couldn't live here? Who could/couldn't work here? Who could/couldn't vote? What laws would there be? Who would enforce them? Would there a job for everyone who wants one? Would there be a federal government? How would it be formed? What religion(s) would be prescribed or proscribed? Would there be taxes? Who would pay them? What relationships would we have with other countries? Who would decide? How would you prevent crime? How would you create justice? What would you do about the poor, homeless, and sick? The list of questions could go on and on.

What I want to understand is: if you could create the ideal USA, what specific things would you do? Not just "throw the bums out"; "follow the constitution"; "quit being socialists"; or, "close the borders". Anyone can complain about stuff they don't like. What solutions do you have and how do they all fit together? Paint the picture; don't just throw paint on the wall.

There are about 365,000,000 people living in the US. I imagine that nearly every ethnic group, nationality, language, religion, political philosophy, economic theory, and belief system that exists on earth, exists in the US. Sure, there may be exceptions - the language spoken by 10 inhabitants on some atoll in a remote ocean, for example. Generally, though, I bet that if humans are involved in it somewhere, it is also represented by someone here in the US. Hate diversity? This may be a tough place for you.

No other country in the world is like the US. There are places with less of a mix, but nowhere has more of a mix.

When did that begin? Roughly 500 years ago. An Italian, sailing under Spanish colors, with a crew of who knows what origins came to an island just a few hundred miles south of the north American coast. That coast may have been visited by Vikings and that island was inhabited by people whose forbears migrated from Asia - hundreds, or maybe thousands, of years before. You want homogeneity? Good luck. Try Outer Mongolia, maybe.

The US is, and arguably always has been, the definition of diversity.