Is America today Conflictual or Consensual?

America today is definitely conflictual.  This term means that different group types do not work well together.  Many recent political events prove this statement to be correct.  In my opinion America today does not have just two conflictual groups, it has multiple. Many conflictual groups involve politics, however some do not.  



        An example of two groups that clash, would be Republicans and Democrats.  These two political groups, have very different ideas of what a perfect society should look like.  Republicans favor a small government with less texas and the democrats favor a larger government with more taxes.  This shows how different the beliefs are between the two groups. Another example of this is how in an article by David Brooks, he compares the Red America and Blue America.  Blue America was described as modern, secular, and self expressive.  Red america was described as traditional, religious, and self disciplined.  These two groups are an example conflictual  attitude because they are "nations of different faith."  These two groups would clash.

This image is just one current example of two different groups.  As seen in the image above, half of the NFL players, are standing and the other half are kneeling, though they are on the same team, they all have different beliefs and morals, because of how they view society.  Those who are kneeling are protesting the government, and those who are standing believe that it is right and proper to stand for the National Anthem.  When our beliefs are different then someone else's we believe that persons beliefs to be wrong.  This is why our government is classified as a conflictual government.