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Donald Trump and America’s new civil war
The Globe and Mail ^ | Omar El Akkad

Posted on 12/10/2017 11:47:55 AM PST by artichokegrower

Barack Obama's presidency was supposed to mark a great leap forward for the United States. But, as Omar El Akkad discovered as he travelled across America this year, the election of Donald J. Trump has turned the country against itself. Scenes from a divided nation

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For the past four years, I have lived in America, but America does not belong to me. Here, I am part of a minority that constitutes the majority of the world: I am a person of colour. I am an immigrant in a country that purports to be a melting pot but is in reality a crucible, a vessel of fierce and fiercely luminous burning.


Don't like it. Please leave.

1 posted on 12/10/2017 11:47:55 AM PST by artichokegrower
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Omar, pack up your goats and go to Londonstan. They will love you over there.


2 posted on 12/10/2017 11:50:29 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Build Kate's wall! Keep illegals and illegal murderers/criminals out of America! MAGA! SLAP ACT!!)
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To: artichokegrower

Yes, we were all as happy as clams, holding hands and singing Kumbaya until midnight on November 8, 2016.


3 posted on 12/10/2017 11:51:47 AM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_War_(novel)

American War is the first novel by Canadian-Egyptian journalist Omar El Akkad. It is set in a near-future United States of America ravaged by climate change in which a second Civil War has broken out over the use of fossil fuels. The story is told by Benjamin Chestnut about his aunt Sarat, and is told through narrative chapters interspersed with fictional primary documents collected by the narrator....


4 posted on 12/10/2017 11:51:56 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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An author full of hate complains about hate.


5 posted on 12/10/2017 11:52:10 AM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Donald J Trump 45th President of the United States !MAGA)
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To: artichokegrower

A liberal’s creed: never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.


6 posted on 12/10/2017 11:54:00 AM PST by Fungi (Fungi rule the world, no one knows it yet.)
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For the past four years, I have lived in America, but America does not belong to me. Here, I am part of a minority that constitutes the majority of the world: I am a person of colour. I am an immigrant in a country that purports to be a melting pot but is in reality a crucible, a vessel of fierce and fiercely luminous burning.

artichokegrower: Please leave.

I agree. This sad person is obviously unhappy here: We aren't living up to his expectations, poor dear! I think that he's simply too good for us! He really ought to go to some other country where he would feel more "at home." Somewhere where he would not be part of a "minority that constitutes a majority of the world." Maybe China? I hear they have a very welcoming immigration policy. And there, he would still be free to publish all the critical articles condemning society that he wants, right?

Regards,

7 posted on 12/10/2017 11:54:11 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Barack Obama’s presidency was supposed to mark a great leap forward for the United States
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Kind of like Mao.
One of his heroes.


8 posted on 12/10/2017 11:55:21 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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The Left attack America on every front imaginable for 50 years and when the Right finally strike back IN DEFENSE OF AMERICA the Left want to call THAT an attack. It really is Time...


9 posted on 12/10/2017 11:56:00 AM PST by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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Omar stop dating goats. Pack your bags, leave now.

If you don’t like us go.


10 posted on 12/10/2017 11:56:41 AM PST by stockpirate (REPRESSION BREEDS VIOLENCE)
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Omar, take you American-hating ass and leave.


11 posted on 12/10/2017 11:56:52 AM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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These folks think/desire the nation they move to, should/would adopt their ways and forsake their own. When it doesn’t, they think they’ve been mistreated.

Someone needs to clue these clueless individuals in.

Of course our Leftists agree with them, and changing the United States (always for the worst) is their full-time goal.

This isn’t always the disruptive immigrant’s fault in total. Our Left seeks to enable them, defend them when they go about things improperly.

Send the disgruntled immigrant back, and every Leftist who thinks he’s right to disrupt here right along with him.


12 posted on 12/10/2017 11:56:56 AM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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This guy sounds dangerous and should be questioned by authorities. Almost certainly he’s a terrorist.


13 posted on 12/10/2017 11:57:05 AM PST by KyCats
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I wouldn’t be surprised if this clown still uses his fingers to wipe himself.


14 posted on 12/10/2017 11:57:06 AM PST by Newtoidaho (Proud member of Trump's army of online trolls)
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Don't like it. Please leave.

That would defeat his purpose, to conquer America and make it a nation devoted to Islam.

15 posted on 12/10/2017 11:57:26 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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The effrontery is strong in this one . . . best I can make out, it is autobiographical where it pretends to be about Trump.

16 posted on 12/10/2017 11:58:00 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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Who on earth cares what this guy thinks about the USA?

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17 posted on 12/10/2017 11:58:10 AM PST by Mears
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More divisive skin tone obsession. These people need to find a new hobby.


18 posted on 12/10/2017 11:58:24 AM PST by Kudsman ( Anyone to the Right of Stalin is a Far Right Wing candidate to the Far Left Wing Media.)
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For the past four years, I have lived in America, but America does not belong to me.

Most of that time was when Obama was president.....

19 posted on 12/10/2017 11:59:28 AM PST by ealgeone
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Me, me, me, look at me and my skin color - I guess he would make a perfect Dimmiecrat.


20 posted on 12/10/2017 11:59:57 AM PST by GnuThere
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