Bill Maher's grave warning appears in today's issue of the Wall Street Journal (18 May 2024. ). His entire article [a must read] can be found here. That article, "Red and Blue America Can’t Just Go Their Separate Ways", warns of the dangers lurking in our increasingly divided country.  "I love historians," Maher begins. "In college, I majored in history. But I don’t buy the stance that historians are always selling on cable news that “America’s like a cat—it always lands on its feet.” I don’t buy that just because something didn’t happen before, it can’t happen now. Rome didn’t fall and didn’t fall and didn’t fall—and then it did." Does that sound ominous? Here's more from Maher: "One night on the road I had a driver who hailed from Bosnia. He left because the city of Sarajevo became a war-torn hellscape, and he said to me: “What I am seeing here now is exactly what I saw in Bosnia then. Next-door neighbors who despise each other.” He was telling me that hate on this level can only be sustained for so long before becoming actual war." "For decades Sarajevo was a diverse city where Serbs, Croats and Muslims lived together as friendly neighbors. In 1984, they hosted the Winter Olympics. Eight years later, people were getting shot by snipers when they went out for milk. Nobody thought a war like that was possible in Europe so “ late” in history. They believed Europe had passed the point of being vulnerable to such a thing. It hadn’t, and never will, and neither will we." Woman hurrying through "sniper alley" in Sarajevo A personal note I was living in Germany a couple of years before the civil war in Yugoslavia erupted in 1991. While in Freiburg, I...