If you take this metaphor and run with it, think of those war-torn country where the whole terrain is laced with landmines from past wars. In the US politics, w

If you take this metaphor and run with it, think of those war-torn country where the whole terrain is laced with landmines from past wars. In the US politics, we've had a very fractious decade, and even if things cool down as [virus ends, human contact resumes, jobs come back, Biden tries to reconcile everyone with results TBD, strife regresses to mean because this can't go on forever, can it?], we're going to live atop a minefield, with tons of words and memes that instantly polarize and derail by evoking divisions of the past. Think of "alt-right", "deep state", "swamp", "antifa", "Russia"...I'm sure you can think of others. Maybe this is how it felt in the early 70's when the nation was coming out of assassinations/Vietnam/Watergate, or how it felt in Ireland after the Troubles, India after the Emergency, Chile ever since the Pinochet coup, and so on, "one damn thing after another".