"Did they work as hard to join hands with their political rivals as they did working to get us to join hands with members of other cultures far away and those pursuing class warfare?"

What on earth do you consider the outcome? When you have issues such as war and civil rights - the outcome is joining hands after the issue is resolved.   

Your Pollyanna view of the world ignores the struggles that are being fought and the reason the struggle exists. Expecting participants to bend over and grab their ankles is not going to bring forth change.

Shake hands?? Is that the sort of outcome you wish for criminals?   Would you have wanted to shake hands with a Hitler or a Stalin after their crimes were uncovered and their plans defeated? Is that going to bring world peace - or would it encourage others to commit crime if the retribution is a hug and a kiss?

Conrad, you continue to play spin doctor and gloss over the realities. Your continued reference to promoting cultural traditions is ignorant of the facts that the rest of us are well aware of, yet you continue to disregard.   With each post you are coming across as more unglued and nothing more than a person out of touch with reality and their own environment. It may be an act, but it is failing.