The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.
There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.
And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.
I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best.
When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.
Rivalry doesn't help anybody.
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
Look around. There are no enemies here. There's just good, old-fashioned rivalry.