John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© November 26, 2025
John Leake writing at Focal Points on 11/25/25 led me to pondering on Thanksgiving on an American historical perspective. THE TITLE: “Is the Idea of America Doomed to Dissolve Into Tribalism? The Founding Fathers imagined a nation of people unified by their shared dedication to the primacy of the individual, free to pursue his interests. Is this idea incongruous with man's tribal nature?”
Leake wasn’t writing a Thanksgiving message. Rather he was writing roughly about how America has evolved from the Founding Fathers’ intended national experiment to the current American affection for special interest tribalism which divides us rather than UNITES us as ONE NATION - dare I say, “UNDER GOD”. The “Under God” portion these days ignites tribalistic division among Americans.
In the Founders’ day, “Under God” would not cause an uproar among a majority of the Founders (even most Deists who respected Christian ethics – Pro-Christian Perspective HERE & HERE. Christian Deist Perspective.) and certainly among most of the citizens of a new nation united under a new Constitution.
AND YET citizens in the new United States considered themselves the citizen of their particular State more than as an American. HENCE the existence of the TENTH AMENDMENT in the Bill of Rights:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. (from National Constitution Center)
The American Civil War (1861 – 1865) erupted because 11 Slave States felt Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency threatened those States delegated power of State sovereignty relating to slavery laws. However, the War Between The States was more about States Rights than slavery. The national debate about slavery may have been the match that sparked Slave-State secession, but the real issue was Federal meddling concerns in sovereign State laws. The Lincoln-led victory centralized American Federalism and diluted the power of the 10th Amendment (State vs. Federal Power: The Eternal American Tug-of-War: scroll down to “Civil War: Federal Power Wins”).
As the former seceding States were brought back into the U.S. Union, Americans slowly began to less identify to a particular State and more as Americans. Somewhere along the American line of history, Leftist ideology sowed the seeds of cultural transformation largely with warped historical propaganda that vilified the American past and America’s Christian Heritage.
With a BA in History, I’d hardly be classified as an expert. Yet in my opinion a Cultural Marxism (Medium & Grokipedia) began creeping into America with the so-called Countercultural Revolution of the 1960s. Here we are eclipsing 2025 and the seeds of division have produced a stark Tribalistic America that I suspect one day will evolve into another Civil War which will at least temporally lead to a dictatorship no matter who wins. Why? No matter who the winner, a harsh path will have to follow to bring the losers back into the vision of the winner. That’s what happened after America’s Civil War under the roughly 12-year period of Reconstruction.
You can probably guess. In this current American cultural tribal division, I associate with Christian Patriots. Frankly at age 69 I do not look forward to being around to when the Civil War dam breaks. It will probably come down roughly between today are called Red States (Conservatives) and Blue States (dominated by Leftists). The thing is in this Red State/Blue State dichotomy, there are significant minorities within Red-Blue that identify against the majority.
For example. I grew up in Washington State. The voting majority is overwhelmingly west of the Cascade Mountain Range and vote happily as a Left-Wing bloc. Two-thirds east of the area east of the Cascades (the minority bloc) lean toward a Conservative ideology. Can you imagine the carnage the Washington State population will face in such a Civil War.
These days I live in Oklahoma. Most of Oklahoma is overwhelmingly Red-Conservative voting. Yet Oklahoma’s two metropolitan areas have significant Leftist Dem voters. Yup more carnage.
I suspect this scenario plays out across all of the USA.
This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for the Savior Jesus Christ as my Redeemer. AND I pray in Jesus’ Name a miracle in my lifetime brings America to a peaceful resolution of American unity melting away tribal political allegiances while restoring the American identity of One Nation, under God Almighty.
JRH 11/26/25
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