Eugene Robinson: There Can Not Be Another WWII to Unite Us

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ROBINSON: “There were bitter divisions about whether the United States should get involved in the war. Isolationism, you think it's something now? Isolationism was a major strain in our politics. There were bitter divisions over Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal policies, which were being described as totalitarianism and communism and socialism. The rhetoric we hear now, we have heard before. The difference is that there cannot be another world war to unite us, right? We can’t have another one of those. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we simply cannot have another war like World War II. So we’re going to have to find a different way to get past these divisions that beset us now: We have a barely functioning political system, but that’s what we've got and we have to find some way to make it work so that we can continue, because there can't be another D-Day like the one there was 80 years ago."