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Can a Divided America Survive?
Townhall.com ^ | June 15, 2017 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/15/2017 1:25:41 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Mark17
My opinion is, the leftists will never compromise, so where will it take us?

I'm reminded of the cartoon of three men at a negotiating table -- the Head of Israel, the head of the PLO and Scretary of State John Kerry.

The PLO guy holds a paper that reads: "Kill all the Jews!"
The Israeli shakes his head, "No".
John Kerry looks at the head of Israel and says, "Well, can't you meet him halfway?"

21 posted on 06/15/2017 3:59:02 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

LOL. Yes, I saw that before. It sounds exactly like what John F’n Kerry would say.


22 posted on 06/15/2017 4:02:37 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Kaslin
No.

And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

23 posted on 06/15/2017 4:06:34 AM PDT by Bob Celeste
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To: no-to-illegals

Very well said and I agree with you.


24 posted on 06/15/2017 4:12:07 AM PDT by Kaslin (The harder the conflict, the mWe must definitelyore glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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To: Kaslin

In a word, NO.

The communists/socialists, like the muslims, are antithetical to the Constitution.

They MUST go, one way or another.


25 posted on 06/15/2017 4:20:25 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Kaslin

YES.

DEPOPULATE d’rats, dhimmis, criminals, conmen, looters, liars, morons, marxists, punks, progressives, tyrants, totalitarians, etc., etc. from the body politic and your life.

DEFUND/DISMANTLE/DESTROY (when necessary) their collectives, foreign and domestic.

It’s easy to...

live - free - republic


26 posted on 06/15/2017 4:23:11 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Kaslin

This issue was discussed many times during the Obama administration.


27 posted on 06/15/2017 4:26:43 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Kaslin

A peaceful negotiated #CALEXIT would relieve a lot of the political pressure in the USA. But most are too stupid to see that.


28 posted on 06/15/2017 4:26:57 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: PGalt

etc., etc. (scumbags, socialists “feel the Bern” supporters)

WINNING


29 posted on 06/15/2017 4:28:11 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: central_va

I prefer a 9.3 earthquake in San Francisco that would kill a lot of people and remove others from the game.

Calexit does not remove the people that are the problem


30 posted on 06/15/2017 4:30:58 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: Kaslin

A little too late.
They are rewriting history just like the Bolsheviks. This fundamentally transforms what America is all about. This is just the beginning here.


31 posted on 06/15/2017 4:42:10 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: Kaslin

In the short term, yes, the US will continue to muddle along, but for the long term, the country will need to negotiate a regional split. It’s too divided to survive as a 50-state entity. The left’s long march toward breaking America is on the path to success.


32 posted on 06/15/2017 4:43:25 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals' agony is my entertainment.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Multiculturalism has been forced on us by the elites who live in gated communities and have servants of other cultures. Everyone is prejudice, it’s called being a human, like making urine and carbon dioxide or choosing your mate or the color of your car.


33 posted on 06/15/2017 4:43:43 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: exDemMom

Good read. But here is the question; who teaches them to hate their society? We must look to the sources like the old media empire and Homowood.


34 posted on 06/15/2017 4:46:54 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: MarMema

I have a small navy flag next to my mail box on the side of the road. Yesterday someone yanked the flag out and knocked over my mailbox (I live in MA). I am running for Congress up here as a Republican (www.change4mass.com) and the GOP has already told me that I need a bodyguard. I spent a year in Iraq and carry, so I can’t wait for someone to try and physically assault me:)


35 posted on 06/15/2017 4:50:04 AM PDT by Change4Mass
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To: Electric Graffiti; ClearCase_guy
Actually Victor Davis Hanson is correct. The United States is a democracy and I explain why:

Definition of democracy

1 a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections

The opposite of a democracy is an autocracy. A democracy is a government chosen by its citizens. An individual without the input of the country's citizens governs an autocracy. Autocratic rulers make economic, social and political decisions without consent from the citizens. More on this here

Definition of Republic

1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (such as a nation) having such a form of government

You are both correct. The United States is a Republic

If you live in a republic, then you live in a country with a leader freely and democratically elected by the people, as opposed to a dictatorship or monarchy.

So both democracy and republic go together

36 posted on 06/15/2017 4:52:37 AM PDT by Kaslin (The harder the conflict, the mWe must definitelyore glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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To: Change4Mass

Stay safe


37 posted on 06/15/2017 4:57:58 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Well we did survive the 0bama administration, didn’t we? The left however acts like as if the Trump administration is the worst thing that could have happened. What is wrong with wanting to make this great country great again? They just don’t get it.


38 posted on 06/15/2017 4:59:08 AM PDT by Kaslin (The harder the conflict, the mWe must definitelyore glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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To: Kaslin

America was born when a 1/3 of us decided to fight while 1/3 fought aginst us and 1/3 hide and waited. We were born devided and we grew and became great so yes we can and will survive.


39 posted on 06/15/2017 5:01:38 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Kaslin

America was born when a 1/3 of us decided to fight while 1/3 fought aginst us and 1/3 hide and waited. We were born devided and we grew and became great so yes we can and will survive.


40 posted on 06/15/2017 5:02:24 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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