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Battleground: 7 in 10 say US ‘on the edge of civil war’
The Washington Examiner ^ | 10/23/2019 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 10/23/2019 5:50:35 PM PDT by Crazieman

Partisan political division and the resulting incivility has reached a low in America, with 67% believing that the nation is nearing civil war, according to a new national survey.

“The majority of Americans believe that we are two-thirds of the way to being on the edge of civil war. That to me is a very pessimistic place,” said Mo Elleithee, the executive director of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service.

And worse, he said in announcing the results of the Institute’s Battleground Poll civility survey, the political division is likely to make the upcoming 2020 presidential race the nastiest in modern history.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: civilwar2; civilwarii; conspiracy; cw2; cwii; cwiiping; givethemwhattheywant; russianpropaganda
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1 posted on 10/23/2019 5:50:35 PM PDT by Crazieman
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To: Crazieman

“Partisan political division and the resulting incivility has reached a low in America”

...which is insane, given incredible highs of peace & prosperity.


2 posted on 10/23/2019 5:53:55 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: ctdonath2

Actually we don’t have a civil war. We have treason by the Democrat Party.


3 posted on 10/23/2019 5:54:48 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Crazieman

We sit and wait.If it happens we are ready.


4 posted on 10/23/2019 5:55:14 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Crazieman

What a stupid poll. We’ve been in a civil war for decades. Unfortunately, it is only the left who is engaging in one. Must play nice ...


5 posted on 10/23/2019 5:55:20 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: Crazieman

Really? Less than 1% of the population care enough to fight.

Everybody else will watch and make snide comments...


6 posted on 10/23/2019 5:55:28 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Crazieman
Such hysteria. We are nowhere close to a civil war.
7 posted on 10/23/2019 5:55:41 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Crazieman

You have half the country that can’t even agree on what was considered consensual reality until a few years ago, that doesn’t bode well for social order.


8 posted on 10/23/2019 5:56:15 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: ctdonath2

Peace is the presence of justice, not the absence of visible conflict.

The philosophical divisions in the country are unsustainable. I wish I as as sanguine about how close we are to a potential solution as the majority of those in a poll.

I think that the entire west is going the way of the proverbial frog in the pot of water that is being heated to a boil.


9 posted on 10/23/2019 5:56:19 PM PDT by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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To: kaehurowing
[We have treason by the Democrat Party.]


10 posted on 10/23/2019 5:56:56 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Crazieman
Now would be a fortuitous opportunity to rewatch or watch for the first time this movie:


11 posted on 10/23/2019 5:57:00 PM PDT by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. T)
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To: Crazieman

That Evil, rotten, two-faced judge that put men in jail for 4 years for defending themselves is really bugging me. It’s past time to set these filthy un American scumbags right...


12 posted on 10/23/2019 5:57:30 PM PDT by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitc)
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To: Shadow44

[what was considered consensual reality]

And the Lying Kenyan fundamentally-changed America.

8 years of lies and damned lies.


13 posted on 10/23/2019 5:58:29 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Farmer Dean

You won’t have to do much but sit back and watch. The food and energy for blue areas comes from red areas. Stop it all and the city populants turn on each other as starving animals would.


14 posted on 10/23/2019 5:58:30 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Crazieman

The headline and the story say two different things.

“Battleground: 7 in 10 say US ‘on the edge of civil war”


“The majority of Americans believe that we are two-thirds of the way to being on the edge of civil war. That to me is a very pessimistic place,” said Mo Elleithee, the executive director of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service.


15 posted on 10/23/2019 5:58:37 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Crazieman

The left has given us the same ultimatum that Islam has:

Submit or Die


16 posted on 10/23/2019 5:58:59 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Crazieman

Is it a civil war when the Democrat thieves do everything they can to keep the police from putting them in jail?


17 posted on 10/23/2019 5:59:33 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: kaehurowing

Precisely. This is not a civil war. It is a war against insurgency by anti Constitutionalists, that is, by Communists and corrupt plutocrats who have gained immeasurable wealth under color of office.


18 posted on 10/23/2019 6:01:13 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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To: Crazieman

Globalists puppet masters are hard at work using the media and every political sellout to push full steam ahead. They were so close to their aspirations coming to fruition and simply cannot let Trump get in the way of their plans.

Divide and conquer! So they use all these wedge issues driving us apart. When it’s possible (not easy) to have an actual adult conversation with folks on the other side, find out that there’s still more we have in common than apart.


19 posted on 10/23/2019 6:01:42 PM PDT by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!)
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To: Farmer Dean

See my tag line.

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20 posted on 10/23/2019 6:01:47 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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