Historically, the success and endurance of any nascent, democratic republic has been contingent on its citizens'
acceptance — as well as their allegiance to a "
covenant of
coexistense".
COEXISTENSE is
Democracy's sine qua non! It is a tacit
agreement made by the members of a society who, despite their differences, are willing to coexist peacefully.
They understand that,
without such an agreement, a democracy cannot endure.
It is such a
covenant of
coexistense that, despite a few "bumps on the road", has been
the glue that has bonded our democracy for the greater part of the last 2½ centuries — and
made our nation the envied, world-respected,
Arsenal of Democracy which saved Europe from the Axis
Powers' tyranny in World War II!
Unfortunatelly, our nation's
multiethnicity,
multireligious groups,
quasi-tribal partisanship
and its plethora of diverse
personal interests and/or grievances pose extremely serious impediments to
the endurance of America's, long-lived,
covenant of
coexistense.
Realistically, these impediments to our tacit "
covenant",
which has kept our nation secure
for the greater part of 250 years, will not disappear on their own or be "talked-away" with wishful,
well-meaning words!
In fact, "restoring" our democracy's critically-indispensable, peaceful state of coexistense, requires
acceptance of the following:
- Getting rid of our "perceived enemy", whether an ethnic, religious, partisan or other group, is not possible.
- While not obvious, there is a possible "tacit interdependence" between groups, e.g., labor tasks,
services provided, etc.
- Commonality of Interests
- Provenance of Attitudes
- Destiny
The provenance of, and the and the methods to ameliorate, the
factors that contribute to its .
