United States of Argument
Vox UNITED STATES OF ARGUMENT Division arrives dressed as certainty, loud and well-tailored. Opinions harden into furniture nobody remembers buying. News becomes theater, and we all ignore who wrote the script. Arguments stretch like highways with no exits, just speed. Left shouts rights, right shouts louder, volume mistaken for virtue. Dinner tables become diplomatic crises with mashed potatoes. Jokes stop being funny when everyone is the punchline. Then someone asks, casually, how did we get here this fast? Rhetoric shrugs, checks its watch, claims it was inevitable. Underneath it all, we recognize the lies too late to just confess. Mirrors everywhere, but no one making eye contact with shame. Polarization sells well—especially to those already divided. ----- Shared with those who must not be mentioned over at DVerse Poets Pub. ----- ©2026 Christopher Reilley I would love to know what you thought about this piece. Please consider leaving a comment.
