The last time Americans had a compelling cause for coalescence of spirit and effort was more than 80 years ago – the external threat and reality of World War II on two global battlefronts. The decisive end of that conflict with nuclear weaponry has since been a strong deterrent to similar aggression.It’s encouraging that former enemies have become strong allies and that devastating wartime technology can be adapted as a constructive source of reliable energy for civilian use. Though other nations have developed military nuclear capability, a more serious current threat to American society appears to be political division from within. Unification of public spirit and commitment is threatened by internal tension and ideological conflict triggered by an undeterred homeland ‘invasion’ of disaffected citizens from 180 other countries facilitated by the incumbent administration.Growing disruption not only challenges societal norms and resources, but also raises risk of potential homeland insurrection. Do Americans need to experience the ‘bomb’ of domestic unrest and accompanying danger of dissipating available resources and undermining our identity?Has America the beautiful and bountiful become an ideological battleground to be diminished or destroyed by differences in attitudes, language, morality, ethics and conduct?Can we fix it? Phil Osifer