Why Has America Become So Divided?

If we really want to understand the American Government, we have to back to its roots and that is when it was its history and how it was formed.

One, Two… Ten and thirty: how many years can you let pass by you, not knowing about your country’s Government? Some of the best U.S. Presidents have been Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and many others.      

It is a Federal Government, which is national government of the United States; a federal republic in North America: that is composed of 50 states.  These 50 states are composed of three distinct branches: the legislative, the executive and the Judiciary. Quite some food for thought, if you didn't know this isn’t it!  The U.S. Government and its political parties have been around since as long as the United States itself!

Some little known facts about US political parties are (and many more!):

1.    Abraham Lincoln was a loyal member if the Whig Party before he followed the Republican Party.

2.    Since World War II, a Republican President has been in power during at least one economic recession. 

The power of these branches is vested by the Constitution in the Congress, Senate and the House of Representatives. The American Government System comprises of the leader of the legislative, executive and judiciary.

There is also the Congress, the President, the Federal Courts and the Vice President. The President is elected for a period of four years.  In short it is a Federal Republic. Members of the U.S. Electoral College elect a President who is the leader of the executive branch.

Besides this there is also the Libertine Party (a political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism of the Government), a Modern Whig Party (a party which doesn't even represent voters who do not represent Republican and Democratic positions. Of course there are plenty other contemporary political parties in America.

However, what really shook up American politics? Was it just the Pearl Harbour and the Great Depression? Was it the involvement of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and U.S. involvement in the Second World War?

The United States Congress is a house consisting of 435 voting members, each of whom represents a congressional district. These representatives serve a two-year term. Conversely, the Senate has two senators from each state who serve six-year terms.

Both these houses –the House and Senate have their own exclusive individual powers; it is the President who nominates judges to the judiciary in the first place. The Senate must approve important presidential appointments i.e. cabinet officers, department secretaries (heads of federal executive branch departments), federal judges (including nominees to the Supreme Court), ambassadors to foreign countries and U.S. military and naval officers.

 The Congress even has the power to remove the President, federal judges and other federal officers from office. The House must first vote to "impeach" the official. Then, a trial is held in the Senate to decide whether the official should be removed from office.

The House of Representatives and Senate have separate roles in this process. The House must first vote to "impeach" the official. Then, a trial is held in the Senate to decide whether the official should be removed from office.

Although two presidents have been impeached by the House of Representatives, (Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton), neither of them was removed following trial in the Senate.

So what has the status of the American Government in the past decade: George Walker Bush - 43rd President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama II -the 44th president of the United States and now Donald John Trump who is the 45th and current president of the United States.

What is interesting is that after the United States gained independence from Britain (in 1776) and won the Revolutionary War in 1783, it was up to all of the individual states how to and who could vote. At that point of time it was only 6% in (new) America who elected the first President George Washington – in 1789.

If you look at the past decade of Presidents in the US: Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and NOW Donald Trump….

However, what and who are Americans electing as their President; just last year because of the immense amount of power that he has he passed a law separating children from their parents if they were found crossing the southern border ‘UNLAWFULLY’ into the United States. 

This not only created havoc but also placed their parents in JAIL and also routinely charged them with a misdemeanor. Such an inhumane, evil and cruel practice left images of children held in cage-like detention centers, interviews of sobbing mothers who had no clue where their child. Each and every living former First Ladies of the United States – Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush and Rosalynn Carter condemned this act  - separating the child from their parents.

An apt quote from Barack Obama “Everyone is sad when their side loses an election. But the day after, we have to remember that we’re actually all on one team”