Your War and Mine (5)

By November, as 1916 was drawing to a close.

Woodrow Wilson's second term, won by narrowly defeating Charles Evans Hughes with just a 3% margin, was entirely marked by the Philippines, Mexican Revolution, and World War.

War participation and anti-war.

Intervention and non-intervention.

Progressive and conservative.

Imperialism and isolationism.

Reason and desire.

This country, where diverse ethnicities and races lived together, stood before numerous binary choices, like the two-party system during election season.

Despite successfully beginning his re-election term, Wilson felt as if his administration was precariously standing on prison walls.

One misstep would lead inside the prison, or outside the wall.

While the government sometimes needed to make bold choices, Wilson had currently chosen to "do nothing."