Evans: Like it or not, we are all in this together

What is happening to us?

What passes for public discussion these days certainly is not civil or thoughtful. Nor is it really much of a discussion.

If you read the comments from some supposed leaders, you find references to the members of the other political party being our enemies. It’s not just Republicans doing this. It’s Democrats, too.

Enemies are those people on the other side of the guns in a war. Our enemies are not the people in our own state, or around the nation, who disagree with us on some issue or another.

Nor are these people we disagree with lunatics, morons or imbeciles. They a...