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Americans Believe We’re Two-Thirds of the Way to a Civil War
NTD ^ | October 24, 2019 | Victor Westerkamp

Posted on 10/28/2019 7:00:11 AM PDT by Windflier

We are two-thirds along the way to a new American Civil war—at least, that’s what almost 70 percent of voters questioned by Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service poll believe.

When asked to express on a scale from 0 to 100, how far we are on our way to the brink of a civil war, the mean response was 67.23.

This conclusion features in the second Civility Poll by GU Politics this year released on Wednesday. The Battleground Civility Poll is the second component of the bipartisan Battleground Poll.

The survey found a generally held belief in over 70 percent of those polled from all across the electorial spectrum, including Democrats, non-partisans, Republicans, Hispanics, blacks, rural voters, urban voters, young and old that the divisions in class, race, and political creed are becoming more significant.

A generally found tenure is that the overall civility in politics is on a free fall in recent times (88% agree, including 71% strongly agree), and the discrepancy between Democrats and Republicans seems to be beyond reconciliation.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.ntd.com ...


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We're headed for some excruciatingly painful times if the left keeps pushing us there.
1 posted on 10/28/2019 7:00:11 AM PDT by Windflier
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To: Windflier

In what way exactly?


2 posted on 10/28/2019 7:01:51 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Windflier

The left wants us to submit or die, sound familiar?


3 posted on 10/28/2019 7:02:02 AM 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: Windflier

If trump wins in 2020, the left is going to become absolutely unglued.


4 posted on 10/28/2019 7:02:18 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: SkyDancer

Use your imagination.


5 posted on 10/28/2019 7:04:58 AM PDT by Windflier (Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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Re> If trump wins in 2020, the left is going to become absolutely unglued

WHEN Trump wins in 2020 the left is going to become absolutely unglued. Fixed it for you

6 posted on 10/28/2019 7:06:53 AM PDT by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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To: Windflier
I don't see how it is possible to avoid. Take out the partisan view points and here is what we have

1/3 or more believe Trump is a fascist criminal illegally in office who needs to be removed at all costs.

1/3 or more believe the Democrats are the party of corrupt socialist oligarchies trying to take away all their freedoms and make tax slaves out of them and their children forever.

!/3 are completely oblivious living their lives who will go which ever way the power structure in their area goes.

I am not sure anyone can make a working nation out of that anymore.

7 posted on 10/28/2019 7:07:31 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Windflier

1/3... and growing


8 posted on 10/28/2019 7:07:57 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Windflier

Is it really a civil war when thieving Democrats start squawking about a civil war to try to scare everyone and keep the police from apprehending them?


9 posted on 10/28/2019 7:08:18 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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What? Guns? Rhetoric? Not watching fake news?

You're going to tell me that armed gangs are going to roam the streets of America gunning down those that don't agree with you?

10 posted on 10/28/2019 7:10:33 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: MNJohnnie

As a side note to that, 1/3 live in urban cesspools like NYC, San Fran, Washington, Atlanta, Chicago......... I say, take out a few bridges and let them have at each other like the rabid animals they are.


11 posted on 10/28/2019 7:11:28 AM PDT by Viking2002 (WARNING: Eating too much oatmeal can make you look like Wilford Brimley.)
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To: Windflier
However, not everyone agrees on who’s to blame for the current crisis. Democrats predominantly blame President Trump for the crisis, while Republican voters tend to hold the left-biased media responsible. Non-partisans blame both Trump and social media.

How does obummer escape the blame game here? He is the one that "fundamentally changed" the country by creating the false victimhood that the media loves to exploit as a social wedge.

Also, while the real divide is manifested politically, it is a fundamental difference in attitudes between the large metro city states where the elitists dwell and the rest of the country where their tax base lies.

12 posted on 10/28/2019 7:15:39 AM PDT by pfflier
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I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t have a crystal ball. I just know that tensions between the political left and right in this country are on a war footing.

Countries don’t stay in that sort of condition for long. The balance goes out and then there’s violence. We’re as susceptible to civil breakdown as the next country.


13 posted on 10/28/2019 7:16:26 AM PDT by Windflier (Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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If trump wins in 2020, the left is going to become absolutely unglued.

That's an understatement.
Think they were nuts when Hillary lost?? I'm thinking riots and all-out chaos and violence against all things Trump-including anyone spotted wearing a hat,tshirt or bumper sticker.
There'll be destruction aplenty, fires set, people being shot...it will NOT be pretty.
Hell hath no fury like a leftist denied power.
14 posted on 10/28/2019 7:16:41 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (Yeah, let's GO THERE. I'm ready...)
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To: MNJohnnie

Another 1/3 is busy populating an Aztecan empire on U.S. soil. Another 1/3 is busy erecting a caliphate. I know that adds up to more than 100% but math was never my strong suit.


15 posted on 10/28/2019 7:18:26 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: Windflier

Do both of them live in the same state, even?


16 posted on 10/28/2019 7:18:38 AM PDT by RideForever
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To: pfflier

Obama could not have usurped the office in violation of the Constitution without the assistance of the GOP.
There’s lots of blame to go around.


17 posted on 10/28/2019 7:19:32 AM 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: 4Runner

No the math works. I was just thinking Citizens. Did not even consider where the Illegals might fall


18 posted on 10/28/2019 7:19:42 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Windflier

And the fake media will be in the cross hairs.


19 posted on 10/28/2019 7:20:13 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: SkyDancer

It very well could come to that...ANTIFA is a prime example...They are escalating their actions even now...


20 posted on 10/28/2019 7:21:17 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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