Posted on 12/29/2015 5:48:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
> The problem is that Tennessee would be quite content to let New York be New York, but New York will not be content to let Tennessee be Tennessee. And that’s been our biggest problem for more than a century.
^ excellent articulation of the analogy.
Lincoln
The right is not moving more right. It’s just that the left is moving so far left that the distance between the two is increasing.
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The right can only go so far as strict adherence to the Constitution. Conservatives cannot go any further to the right than that. That is the end of that side of the spectrum. The left, however, can continue going left until we have totalitarian communism, which is moving the needle further left, so your analysis is 100% correct.
Because it made the most sense. Didn’t seem logical to only comment on the first 3 sentences of a long article when the rest of the article was spent deconstructing those first three sentences.
I agree about the polarization and see no way to reconcile it.
RE: FReeper’s reading comprehension seems to be at an all time low lately.
Actually, in my experience, many just skim the title and form conclusions in their head and then comment accordingly.
Happy New Year.
+1
Obama has been the cause of much of the polarization in his efforts to “fundamentally transform America”.
well, I did. and you were wrong. have a good one :)
Well said!
Fair enough, FRiend. You have a good one too.
i said this in 2000 and my family didn’t believe me then. we are VERY divided. each side is going to go more in the other direction, not move the same way.
a few battleground states, 3 to 5 percent to swing to your side, that’s all that’s left, it seems.
McCain and Romney weren’t conservative so the division wasn’t as pronounced.
Trump/Cruz vs. Sanders/Hillary will show the huge divide.
ok, you win!!! i skimmed the article!!! if you don’t reply fast all the good replies are used up!!!! lol
but it’s not a contest lol1!! I’ve read some GREAT articles when i was patient enough!!
{Obama has been the cause of much of the polarization in his efforts to “fundamentally transform Americaâ€.}
I disagree. He’s just been the latest cause. The left’s drift towards totalitarianism has been ongoing for decades. Today’s GOPe that we rail against would have been JFK Dems 60 years ago. THATS how far the liberal left has drug the Democrat party.
Not true. The left is moving overboard left into full socialism, actively taking freedoms away left and right and the right has stayed the same and gotten pissed off. They are playing dangerous games with riling up blacks to hate and harm whites and cops,and importing islamic men and allowing South American gang enemies on to our soil, attacking Christian businesses, putting conservatives on homeland security watch list, playing with our military, implanting muslims in government, attacking conservatives with the IRS, importing 3rd world diseases and going for peoples guns letting Americans know they are getting dangerous.
The silent majority is not silent at the moment. I have heard more shocking political speech in just one month in the last year from people that never speak up, than I have heard in a whole life time before and it is just getting stronger and more bold as each month moves along. Polite society, social gatherings, sporting events and friends all beyond the normal family talk.....people are pissed and talking in ways not imaginable a year ago....some of it in shocking terms not heard in my lifetime of political correctness.
I do not know how many times the need for people to carry has been brought up this year or been told personally I need to carry and not by family members(that is beyond normal American behavior). Never in my life in public have strangers or acquaintances talked about the need to arm. It happens constantly now and that speech is growing stronger. There is a breaking point when two sides get so far apart and for the first time I think Americans are watching. I do not think we are anywhere near that point but I do think that they are paying attention now and the slow boil has begun.
A real conservative president is the smartest thing that the establishment could give America at this moment. I would not want to be in power if the leftist march continues at full pace.
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What’s scary is this: how does it resolve itself? To my mind, it will only resolve itself with bloodshed. Either we will find no common ground and start killing each other (all that’s lacking is common geography) or we will find a common foe after being catastrophically hit here by an international enemy.
Personally, I think enemy nation states are more than happy to sit back and let us tear each other apart, probably surreptitiously fomenting discord
where they can until then.
It’s what I would do.
Left and Right are Marxist constructs. They are not natural distinctions in a democratic republic. Nationalist/globalist might be better distinctions, or Federalist/States Rights, but not conservative/liberal. They are false distinctions.
Post of the day, so far!
I think the problem is David French, an NR writer who’s overly sensitive and often wrong.
I contend this is exactly what's happened. Liberals are not content to live their lives they way they feel is right. Instead, they must foist on those around them their progressive values because they're convinced they know better. It's the totalitarian wolf that ever lurks in the progressive sheepskin.
Yep.
News flash for David French we are already there. Yesterday Mr gg2 and I were behind a lady in aldis who overheard us talking about our garden so she started chatting with us. We said we were soon moving to the mountains and she said she was too. Then she leaned in close and said we are terrified the republicans are going gto win. I leaned in and said we are terrified they won’t and smiled. That was pretty much the end of a beautiful friendship.
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