This morning I saw an article from The New Yorker asserting that patriotism was waning during the Trump years.

Many progressives now define "woman" differently than Americans traditionally have, which demonstrates that we no longer share a common vocabulary.  - Conservative Patriots Revival - Chris Stubbs

In 1979 a movie titled 1941 was released in theaters. The movie was a slapstick comedy starring great comics like John Belushi, Slim Pickens, Dan Aykroyd, and John Candy. 

The premise was that a Japanese submarine was threatening the paranoid California coast shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
One of the funny shticks in the movie involved a single German officer aboard the Japanese submarine (which was actually a U-boat). 

The Japanese sailors spoke Japanese and the German officer spoke German, yet they understood each other perfectly. 

The joke was that they were all speaking the same cinematic language: "not English."

Why am I telling you this?...
It strikes me that our position in America is the opposite of the one portrayed in 1941. 

They spoke different languages and understood each other perfectly. 

We speak the same language and often can't understand each other at all...