> We're not going to be able to fix the boat with a country as divided as ours.

You are correct. However, I couldn't see how we could have fixed it before. In the US, every possible group of people was fully mired in a state of

    No One Anywhere Wants To Clean Their Own House.

I couldn't see how anything could improve before, not while that principle dominated everything. And it's still that now, just 10x worse.