Why does America exist?

That's a good question. I don't rightly know. I have to think that it's simply because we say so. I mean, what other reason could there possibly be. It's not like America is a thing. It has not physical form. There is nothing inherent in a form that defines it.

So, the only thing that makes it exist and keeps it the way it is happens to be people. America is exactly what we make it. Nothing more. Nothing less. Sure, we have a bunch of guidelines, some goals, and a promise as defined by our founding documents but the only reason those mean anything is because we are trying to live by them. Once we collectively stop trying, the whole thing will just collapse.

I don't mean that as a threat or a warning. I don't think it has anything to do with gay marriage as that's an utter nonsequitor no matter how you slice it, nor do I believe that it has anything to do with immigration since converts tends to be some of the most zealous defenders of the ideas they adopt. I am simply trying to point that things like politics, culture, society, and other things that exist only in our heads... well, exist only in our heads.

These things exist for as long as we put forth the time and effort to make them continue to exist. So, America will collapse at some point, but only after I and those like me are long gone. I work pretty hard to make America exist, or at the very least I would like to think that I am. I'm not all that active in the political party aspect.