Setting aside religious, ethnic, racial and social differences to achieve a greater good was once considered an American hallmark and the envy and wonder of the Old World.

Creating the “American Melting Pot” wasn’t without colossal struggle and setbacks, but the vision of a people standing free, united and equal before God, has forged a nation like none other.

That vision is now fractured under the spell of woke identity politics, which itself is born of a radical individualistic view of humanity, one in which everyone defines his own reality and is answerable to no higher authority but the changing whims of personal desire.

This paradigm is devoid of a unifying belief that all men and women are endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights, which must always be upheld.

Shot throughout this endless fracturing is the notion of oppressors and the ever-growing list of newfound victims.

Culturally, this individualistic worldview breeds deep divisions that have been playing out in America and which are now at a dangerous new pitch.

In the past two years alone, we’ve watched this animosity fuel riots, burn cities and foment violent protests and cultural conflicts that have shaken America to its core.

Everywhere you look new and emerging divisions divide black and white, cops and citizens, schools and parents, men and women, the born and unborn, LGBTQ and straight.

We have pitted the rich against the poor, the past against the present and the secular against the religious. Most recently we see the masked versus the unmasked, vaxed vs. unvaxed and essential vs. non-essential.

With the rise of Black Lives Matter and critical race theory, every white person is a suspected racist, until they prove otherwise. Even black conservatives are condemned.

Discord is also seen among gays and lesbians who don’t support every element of the trans agenda. In Anchorage, divisions erupted this month between LGBTQs of color and those who are white.

What is the end of a fragmented nation that has rejected its history, severed its family ties and lost its religious foundation?

Shot throughout this endless fracturing is the notion of oppressors and the ever-growing list of newfound victims.

The only way to avoid cancellation is to immediately affirm any newly identified victim while simultaneously showing sufficient enthusiasm in denouncing the oppressors. At the slightest hesitation, your reputation is cancelled.

Many other victims, however, are seen as collateral damage for the greater good of advancing hyper individualism and unfettered choice.

The left, for instance, does not talk about the 60 million unborn babies killed through abortion, the millions of fatherless young men and women, broken families, cycles of single-parent poverty, plummeting academics, rampant divorce and cohabitation that leave children in the lurch, violent mobs destroying small businesses, adverse reactions to experimental vaccines, gender confused children enduring cross sex hormones, businesses forced to close due to mandates or laws that violate their religious liberties, girls whose sports are dominated by biological males.

These victims are a necessary – even pleasing – sacrifice among devotees of divisive, identity politics.

But what is the end of a fragmented nation that has rejected its history, severed its family ties and lost its religious foundation? There is no firm ground on which to stand.

The vision of the cultural left is one in which every identity group fights solely for its own, and eventually leaves every man for himself. It is a nightmare from which we must awake.

Americans must call out the folly of turning every man against his neighbor and recall those words which are rarely uttered in our classrooms anymore – the ones that proudly affirm we are “One nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”

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