America has always had this schizophrenic self identity, and we can only put off this fight coming to a head for so long no matter what we do.
This is accurate, unless you are implying that there will be sort of resolution. Which isn't necessarily so...and is, in fact, very doubtful. One hideous possibility - and the one that history proposes - is that this tacky shit is the new normal. Whomever attains power spends all their time trying to erase his/her predecessors, and boasting about what a great leader he/she is. Meanwhile, nothing gets done, constitutional rules are not enforced (as all sides and the media just pretend nothing happened), and pretty soon the only stable thing that exists is the military.
Ho ho ho.
Lol, no, there will be no resolution. Every time things get this bad it's like a game of Russian (collusion) Roulette. Maybe it'll break out into full blown civil war, maybe it won't. Maybe we'll survive, maybe we won't. It's anybody's guess, but we have do this every 50 years or so to keep the blood moving.