I realize I probably sound cynical to some of you on this unity stuff.

It’s because I’ve had my eyes open for the past 4 years.

If we’re going to unify, we have to understand why we have disunity.

That’s why I believe Biden’s words on unity are empty. He will not address the reasons for disunity because I doubt he sees them. Even if he did, he wouldn’t name them because his base would crucify him.

Anyone remember Hannity and Colmes? They’d debate the hot button political issues of the day, get mad at each other, yell and scream, and leave as friends.

They were able to do this because they disagreed heartily but accepted, in good faith, the other’s ultimate aim was good.

We don’t have that anymore. Sure, we do it on the right too, but the left excels at it.

Every opposing opinion is taken in bad faith. We don’t disagree because we have the same aims but different approaches. Now we disagree because they have good intentions and ours are evil.

We cling bitterly. We are deplorable. We are racists. We don’t care who dies. “The cruelty is the point”.

None of it is true. It was used as a dishonest political wedge to demonize us, and it was successful. So successful, in fact, that many now believe it.

We’re seeing the next stage of this tactic forming now. We have to be purged from society. Put our names on a list. Re-educate us. Never let us live in peace again.

Not just because we have the wrong political views, but because we’re evil. Irredeemable, as Hillary put it.

Joe Biden, you can address that if you want to move back towards unity. Good luck telling your people that we’re not racist, white supremacist, Nazi monsters.

I doubt they’d tolerate it. They’re believers now, and they’d have to accept an ugly truth about themselves to change.

No, I don’t believe the call for unity is anything more than feel-good, empty rhetoric.

Real unity would be too costly.