The Great American Divide Isn’t What You Think For the last 50+years “the peaceful transfer of political power” meant a 4-8 year rebranding of the ruling paradigm designed to preserve the policy, perks, economic, legal and legislative advantages of the governing class. In 2016 election ushered in a division some say is a significant as the election of 1860. Many think it is the clear division of political ideologies. While this true, there is another split and in my opinion, is generally not recognized and ultimately more profound. First some context. The complex, interdependent infrastructure that supports modern life in America operates with such reliability that unimaginable amounts of goods and services are conceived, produced and distributed with seamless regularity. It takes a massive natural catastrophic event to interrupt it. The downside is that the demands are so great a broad interruption lasting two weeks or more would result in chaos in every major city. Ok, what does this have to do with this divide? The divide can be generally thought in terms of two groups; those with the skills that maintain the modern infrastructure and those that lack the skills to maintain the modern infrastructure. For example; a person might be the most brilliant, accomplished brain surgeon in the world but he/she is dependent on someone understanding, building and maintaining electrical power generation/transmission or have the skills to design and build emergency power generators. A more down to earth example what would happen to the business you work for if the power went out for a day? Would the business function? There are countless people whose skills and detailed coordination of complex systems enable modernity. Somewhere along the line, those that benefit from modern infrastructure but lack the contributing skills decided to bite the hand that sustains them literally and figuratively. The disdain and contempt of the media, academics, students, comics, MSM, progressives, etc. for those that engineer, build, maintain and repair modern infrastructure, goods and services has become particularly virulent and now violent. One indication is the Harvard, with input and guidance from others, organized an excursion to introduce some students to the reality that supports their world view. Think about that for a moment. So detached have these elite students become that an expedition had to be mounted to expose them the reality outside of their experience. A situation where never have so many known so little about so much will not weather a prolonged disruption with stoic endurance. Perhaps it is no surprise that a populace encountering a level of unprecedented material abundance would, after sufficient generations, act is if it is like oxygen; it’s just there always has been always will. That belief will be put to the test. What the future holds is anybody’s guess especially but I’d be nice to those that know how to do something practical