The secret to America’s survival… Filmmaker Ken Burns reminds us that division isn’t new. It’s part of the American story — from the Revolution to the Civil War to Vietnam. What IS new, sometimes, is the panic that THIS moment of discord must be the worst. But history offers something steadier: perspective. We’ve always had big disagreements. What’s kept us going, and what still holds us together, isn’t a shared language or religion or region. It’s the words. The radical promise that we’re a nation built on ideals. That people with wildly different views can still be bound by a commitment to wrestle with them together. Burns calls that our leverage. And maybe, in an era flooded with distrust and outrage, it’s also our way back: not through erasing the hard stuff, but by reclaiming the habit of working through it. #civility #america #kenburns #hope #politics