Ronald Reagan, W.B. Yeats, John Donne and the Dis-united States of America

Bring Us Together, a sign held up to Ronald Reagan. Did he?  He waged a campaign against "Big Government." As a UNITED STATES,  our government was designed to be "One Nation, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All. Now it is portrayed as a seeming enemy of the people.  In his poem The Second Coming, Yeats had predicted, ... "mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." When there is no government, we have anarchy.

Some great beast slouches and we who live in a nation that once valued community, caring for one's neighbor, are so fractionalized that we are the antithesis of what John Donne wrote:

No Man Is An Island

No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee. 

John Donne