Politics has fractured our problem-solving | Opinion
For years – centuries, no doubt – Americans and others have been seduced by the notion that all we human beings need to become aligned with each other is a common enemy.After all, in wartime, we all seem to coalesce. World War II is a stellar example. Americans and their allies joined hands against the darkness they saw saturating much of the rest of the globe, and they valiantly resisted as one.That kind of alliance and reliance didn’t exactly prevail in wars since. Korea, Vietnam and Middle Eastern conflicts didn’t exactly cause Americans to throw their arms around each other and declare solidarity against what were sometimes regarded as only “so-called e...