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I wrote this piece to get people on both sides to calm down. Some may think that I'm a moderate, ignoring everything I have done and espoused for the last 25 years But I wrote this to get liberals and conservatives to rein in radicals, before political violence becomes more common and we spiral into a civil war.
1 posted on 01/22/2021 5:20:05 PM PST by rmlew
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I’m seeing nothing that resembles a civil war. Remember, conservatives play nice and lose so who is fighting?


2 posted on 01/22/2021 5:28:36 PM PST by RBW in PA
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Like most people you skip over the secession of many states. This could be peaceful or not. Don’t jump right into war.


3 posted on 01/22/2021 5:28:58 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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We’ve been infiltrated from without and corrupted from within. Short of the Second Coming or aliens landing, I don’t see how secession or CW II gets bumped down the list.


4 posted on 01/22/2021 5:31:10 PM PST by Viking2002 (The revolution won't need to be televised. It'll be on your doorstep.)
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There are fewer moderates every day.
Just like the American Revolution and the Civil War..those who tried to thread the middle ground needle tend to suffer the most.


5 posted on 01/22/2021 5:36:33 PM PST by magyars4 (To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men!)
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“I wrote this piece to get people on both sides to calm down.”

You really don’t get it.

L


6 posted on 01/22/2021 5:39:03 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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If you wrote it post the whole thing.


7 posted on 01/22/2021 5:39:47 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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We have reached a stage where the political climate in American looks like something out of a piece of dystopian fiction or the start of a civil war.

Sounds familiar. Quotes from "The Russian Revolution" by Alan Moorehead 1958

"… this was a predatory state which the Czar and a small group of noblemen and bureaucrats ruled for their own exclusive benefit...The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants to be little better than animals..."

9 posted on 01/22/2021 5:40:52 PM PST by libertylover (This is not your Founding Fathers' United States of America anymore.)
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Did you see what Antifa did in Portland on January 20th?

Calm down? That ship has sailed.


12 posted on 01/22/2021 5:45:35 PM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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Let's revisit this post after the Democrats eliminate the Fillibuster, pack the courts, add D.C. and P.R. as states, throws Trump and his family in jail, and outlaws private ownership of military caliber Semi-Automatic firearms.

See you in the summer !

14 posted on 01/22/2021 5:58:10 PM PST by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !)
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“neighbors who look, act, or think differently are still our neighbors and friends,”

No. The ones who want me in prison or “re-educated” are enemies.


15 posted on 01/22/2021 5:58:25 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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Civil War II. Lol
And the Kracken will be here any minute. Trump’s playing 4D chess. The Democrats threw him in the briar patch. Martial law any minute.

The Democrats and Rinos won. Big tech won. Biden’s going to focus on domestic terrorism. Anybody arrested for June 6 will be lucky to just be bankrupted as opposed to being bankrupted and locked up.

It looks like the choices are find another country to move to. Try to vote them out. Run down the guns. Make peace with it.

Trump was never going to be able to turn the tide. At best he pushed it back a few years.


16 posted on 01/22/2021 6:01:34 PM PST by snarkybob
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before political violence becomes more common and we spiral into a civil war.

The bigger danger is there will not be a civil war and we go like sheep to the slaughter.

18 posted on 01/22/2021 6:02:12 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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As long as we are the fattest, most comfortable and passively entertained people ever, human nature and recorded history seem to indicate we are pretty far away from civil upheaval. We did things the romans couldn’t even imagine with our superior bread and circuses, like actually making the poorest the most likely to be obese.

I suspect we are going to be amazed at what will be politically tolerated as long as people are fat and entertained as it happens.

FReegards


20 posted on 01/22/2021 6:07:42 PM PST by Ransomed
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It has nothing really to do with radicals.
In a situation like this, radicals are just the uncontrollable leading edge of where large masses of people are going. Consider them as just so many John Browns, or Gavrilo Princips - or, rather, that rogue band of Serbian military intelligence officers that recruited him. They will do what they will do, without reference to the opinions of the mass, and they cannot be reined in.

The social situation is what will bring war. There are irreconcilable interests here, and a long history of mutual hatred, people to people. The only way to defuse this is, well, there is no realistic way to do it. The elite side of this social war will have to deny their own nature, to stop spewing acid and poison on the masses. They can’t.


21 posted on 01/22/2021 6:08:04 PM PST by buwaya
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Reads like a campaign speech. The enemy laughs at your moderation pleas. You want a way out? Here it is
23 posted on 01/22/2021 6:13:10 PM PST by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V)
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Calm down? wtf are you talking about? Is your head firmly up your ass? Are you even aware that a coup has taken place?

Calm down? What exactly are you referring to? Specifically. I've yet to see any true uprising/revolt from the people on the so-called 'right'.

You should probably catch up on your history and I would also suggest that you read the Declaration of Independence and keep in mind, the Founding Fathers of this nation would have been shooting by now.

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice...

Calm down....my ass.

24 posted on 01/22/2021 6:22:40 PM PST by LibertyWoman (It's NOT over until President Donald J Trump says it is)
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We need politicians and the media to stop constantly and brazenly lying.
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You are a dreamer......

It’s what they do.


25 posted on 01/22/2021 6:23:31 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents{}Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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So far Americans seem willing to suffer the current evils inflicted on us by the oligarchy rather than resort to the only means left by them to restore the rule of law.

This is the outcome the oligarchy gambled on in their year long campaign to overthrow the people’s vote in 2020.


27 posted on 01/22/2021 6:37:41 PM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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And these absolutely useless generals who are just waiting to retire and prostitute their useless ass to join the board of some company that will use them like the whores they are.

After the spectacle in DC this week not one of them should escape a courts marshal, and brig time. A$$hole ring knockers.

29 posted on 01/22/2021 6:50:44 PM PST by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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The Democrats will overplay their hand. They'll go too far. The economy will slump about that time, and Biden or Harris will get defeated, assuming Republicans don't blow their own opportunity.

While there are few moderates left in politics, people outside Washington and outside politics aren't as polarized as the politically-obsessed might think they are. Democrats hope what's happening now will drive the undecideds into their camp, but they'll go too far and there will be a reaction.

30 posted on 01/22/2021 6:51:01 PM PST by x
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