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The Fifth American War
nationalreview.com ^ | 7/18/2017 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 07/18/2017 12:19:15 PM PDT by rktman

The wars between Trump, the media, the deep state, and the progressive party — replete with charges and counter-charges of scandal, collusion, and corruption — are merely symptoms of a much larger fundamental and growing divide between Americans that is reaching a dangerous climax.

...... we are engaged in yet a fifth revolutionary divide, similar to, but often unlike, prior upheavals. The consequences of globalization, the growth of the deep state, changing demographics, open borders, the rise of a geographic apartheid between blue and red states, and the institutionalization of a permanent coastal political and culture elite — and the reaction to all that — are tearing apart the country.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: culturewar; goodvsevil
Not according to "them". We're the problem and need to get out act together. Thanks VDH for your assessment.
1 posted on 07/18/2017 12:19:16 PM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman
American Valhalla
2 posted on 07/18/2017 12:22:38 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: rktman
The government necessary to ensure such continued state borrowing and spending is now nearly autonomous and transcends politics — and is eager to use its formidable powers against any who threaten it.

As usual, VDH hits the nail on the head.

3 posted on 07/18/2017 12:26:43 PM PDT by henkster (Ask your favorite liberal to take the "Snowflake Challenge.")
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To: Jack Black; Tilted Irish Kilt

Ping.


4 posted on 07/18/2017 12:27:34 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: rktman

bkmk


5 posted on 07/18/2017 12:29:23 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: rktman

We keep forgetting the basic nature of man.

Man.....humans.....want.

They want wealth. They want power. They want sex. They want to not be afraid.

They want more.

They want yours.

We keep trying to attribute noble ideals to Democrats actions.

There is nothing noble about them.

I used to be one.

They want.

They want yours.

VDH is a brilliant man, but he wants to have noble foes in the liberals.

They aren’t noble.

They’re greedy, thuggish liars.

We have to stop giving them cover to hide behind.


6 posted on 07/18/2017 12:39:03 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

So basically they’re isis/isil/is/daesh with less head chopping? ;-)


7 posted on 07/18/2017 12:44:59 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman
Davy Crockett
8 posted on 07/18/2017 12:45:22 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: rktman

Progressivism is only the most recent iteration of gangster government.


9 posted on 07/18/2017 1:11:27 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Thanks. How’s things over there these days?


10 posted on 07/18/2017 2:13:45 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: blueunicorn6

I don’t want yours. And you sure as $hit don’t want mine.


11 posted on 07/18/2017 2:43:33 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

Well, Vermont Light, that’s because you’re not a liberal.


12 posted on 07/18/2017 2:50:11 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

Exactly.


13 posted on 07/18/2017 3:01:10 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: blueunicorn6

Agreed, except:

I do not abuse the classic term, liberal; they are communists.

Communists love money more than anyone - so much that they want it all for themselves, leaving all but the Committee to live in egalitarian and dystopian squalor.


14 posted on 07/18/2017 3:30:10 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: rktman

<>Progressivism promises a transcendence over nature’s limitations through superior education, proper training, and correct reasoning, as if poverty, illness, and inequality were not innate to human nature but the result of selfishness and ignorance and so easily remedied.<>


15 posted on 07/18/2017 5:08:56 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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Thanks. How’s things over there these days?
You're welcome rktman.

Terrible.
Hundreds of German choir boys abused over six decades

16 posted on 07/19/2017 1:14:24 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Yeah, we kinda know that already but had to ask out of civility to fellow FReepers.


17 posted on 07/19/2017 5:46:10 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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