Posted on 11/12/2019 10:22:24 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Democracy depends on the consent of the losers. For most of the 20th century, parties and candidates in the United States have competed in elections with the understanding that electoral defeats are neither permanent nor intolerable. The losers could accept the result, adjust their ideas and coalitions, and move on to fight in the next election. Ideas and policies would be contested, sometimes viciously, but however heated the rhetoric got, defeat was not generally equated with political annihilation. The stakes could feel high, but rarely existential. In recent years, however, beginning before the election of Donald Trump and accelerating since, that has changed.
Our radical Democrat opponents are driven by hatred, prejudice, and rage,” Trump told the crowd at his reelection kickoff event in Orlando in June. “They want to destroy you and they want to destroy our country as we know it.” This is the core of the president’s pitch to his supporters: He is all that stands between them and the abyss.
In October, with the specter of impeachment looming, he fumed on Twitter, “What is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!” For good measure, he also quoted a supporter’s dark prediction that impeachment “will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.”
Trump’s apocalyptic rhetoric matches the tenor of the times. The body politic is more fractious than at any time in recent memory...
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This is why my hard cut off date for starting SS distribution is while Trump is still in office.
the same was said during every election of my lifetime, and they were all true.
Every election is a game changer.
“If they ever can, they’ll go full Stalin/Hitler on our asses. This coup business will look like child’s play.”
See my tag line.
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That’s smart.
But the bastards could selectively hack into personal accounts and really screw people over.
Your tag line is exactly right.
I see no possibility of a peaceful solution.
The media is pushing change by being hard left. It’s propaganda more than anything that has produced change. Yes demographics play a lot into it. But without deep state controlling the media even that wouldn’t be enough. It’s big money Republicans and dems who are pushing the change. 2 rotten parties that have both gleefully presided over change. All in the name of greed.
What country?
The Left let in every indigent on the planet! Of course it won’t last.
“The country will never be united again.”
I’m afraid you’re probably right.
I hear you.
“This is why my hard cut off date for starting SS distribution is while Trump is still in office.”
I’m 68 so I’m already collecting SS. My wife is 62 and she has an appointment with SS next week to start taking SS.
I’ve read this sh* since 2006 before obamatard won. Like the white guys in Hollywood that I spoke with recently..”who’s the president? Trump. Whites arent going anywhere..”.
And these producers are high up in the studio food chain.
It will be up to God. I don’t worry about such mundane issues.
“What has caused such rancor? The stresses of a globalizing, postindustrial economy. Growing economic inequality. The hyperbolizing force of social media. Geographic sorting. The demagogic provocations of the president himself.”
Missed the main cause. Our “educators” have spent 4 decades teaching our children that America is a horrible country that should be destroyed.
Yep, I say give the Northeast to Canada, and California to Mexico, and give the Democrats in the rest of the country 90 days to get their affairs in order and move to one or the other.
the same was said during every election of my lifetime, and they were all true.
Every election is a game changer.
I don’t think it’s been like this or even close to it except for two times: 1968 and just before the civil war. In the former case we dodged a bullet. In the latter we didn’t. I think it’s gonna be one of the two in a year from now.
Likewise, the west coast states of California, Oregon and Washington should be purged or perhaps declared territories. statehood will be stripped. Foe all three, counties can apply for readmission to the union.
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