Is there distress that the nation is divided or just that this division is now so visible?  The debate has not made this any worse. "Black lives matter" is a statement that since the first black slaves arrived it is obvious that black lives do not matter, nor the lives of indigenous peoples, nor the lives of the thousands who are killed directly by the American war machine and the hundreds of thousands killed yearly in the perpetual conflict zones which are fed by the military industrial complex. Sounds all conspiracy oriented until one takes the time to "fact check". America has become a police state, with ominous state surveillance of everyone, where one can now be jailed for expressing one's opinion. It has become a theocracy, with a military indoctrinated by fascist evangelical ideologues, and a civil base ready to let loose on the new "minority" to target for persecution and exclusion - American Muslims. Like it or not, Trump is America, and Hillary is hardly a substitute.