# @builders on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMdgM0Vv0P8
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32674030-builders-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/adf9ffcfb1.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-07-23T18:51:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Builders (@builders) — https://gondola.cc/builders

## Caption

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

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## Tags

america, politics, kenburns, hope, civility

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