Posted on 12/12/2020 5:05:44 AM PST by MtnClimber
What are the scenarios awaiting polarized America when the last legal stage is complete, all Is are dotted and Ts crossed, and the winner is officially declared?
As uncertain as the odds of the presidential election outcome, one thing is clear: whoever becomes the winner, he is unlikely to alter long-running political divides within the country. Sure, America has faced worse divisions in the past and survived — at great cost — but with polarization set to deepen over time, the country could face paralyzing political sclerosis or even calls for secession, as argued by many observers.
Study after study after study suggests that the impact of political partisanship appears to be increasing and shows just how much our political identity today is a part of our views of a wide variety of other aspects of life, which often are not directly related to politics. Why is this concerning? In the long run, polarization and partisan conflicts lead to inaction, as ideologically rigid "my way or the highway" mentalities lower the probability of achieving the compromise that should be at the heart of legislative functioning (like the 2018–19 government shutdown or the standstill in COVID relief legislation). The partisan tensions between the federal and certain local governments showed themselves in full during the different approaches in handling national summer protests, when Democrat governments were eager to "destroy the village in order to save it" and continuously refused any help from Trump.
Another aspect is societal. As argued by Frank Newport, Ph. D. of Gallup, any functioning society needs to develop and maintain its social institutions, but partisans on both sides increasingly see institutions in the U.S. not as beneficial and necessary, but as part of an effort by the other side to gain advantage and to perpetuate its power.
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If Biden wins it will be a downhill fight to avoid becoming Venezuela.
If Biden wins then 2016 was the last free election in this country - and everyone knows it.
If Trump doesn’t win, elections in this country will be a joke and a waste of time forever. All Hell follows.
It is that important.
If the election is cheated, then the worst part is that politicians know that they can get away with doing whatever since they cannot lose an election anymore. Expect atrocities to follow them realizing that.
If Biden wins, I will begin to learn Mandarin on Babble.All of us will soon be speaking to chinese guests invited here by President Biden.
The Chinese will be buying out all of the bankrupt farms across America, so they can shut them down and starve us to death in the old Communist way?
Biden will be such a disaster that we will have no more civil society. In the sanctuary cities we will have the law of the gun.And it will have to be the gun that keeps out the Chinese. We will have war with China because of Biden.
A lot depends on the GA run offs. They cheated in the last election right in our faces so we will see. I still hold out hope. We could really use a win that has more major evidence.
I would count on more war on cops sooner than anything else.
I have been arguing with libs online who say Texas and other states would not survive without their taxes. The idiots are not aware that businesses have been and continue to leave blue states in droves. Even Silicon Valley companies are head to Texas and free states. The red states have most of the industry (Alabama is booming with new companies) and we have most of the livestock and the food belt. Commiefornia and NY are both overextended and broke and were begging the fed for more. I would be happy to join Allen West in forming an actual functional government ran by and for the people. I also get tired of all the nay sayers. “Oh it can not be done. Its too hard. They won’t let us.”. If you are a conservative and are that afraid of a challenge that may be the last chance of remaining free then you need to give up and go full commie. What if the founding fathers took that attitude? We would still be paying big time taxes for tea.
We’re done. We’ve been SCOTUS chickensh!ted. Time to protect our families and what’s rightfully ours. The Dems are our scourge and deserve not a fart’s scent of respect. They are complicit and accomplices in the destruction of our Republic. And they are not felt kindly of.
I always get a little suspicious about GDP claims if for no reason other than that multi-location businesses can fairly easily make non-falsifiable claims about which location profits are generated. I will post a simple and older question: The PRR (headquarters in Philadelphia PA) moves a unit train of coal from a mine in WV to a mill in OH, which of the three states was the economic activity credited to in GDP calculations?
If Biden wins then 2016 was the last free election in this country - and everyone knows it.
1956 was the last one. 1960 brought us Mayor Daley and the Chicago mob who swung the election to JFK with dead people voting. After that, all elections were in one way or another compromised.
But it was the advent of electronic tabulators and later voting machines that election fraud began in earnest. And now the socialist/communist democrats have nearly succeed in taking over America permanently.
Remember: the goal of socialism is communism.
If Biden wins, I will begin to learn Mandarin on Babble.
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Watching Chinese movies is a help too. Best one is “The Longest Day in Chang’un”. Plot twists are everywhere - no magic, flying fighting - just a good old fashioned mystery detective story in 48 episodes set during the Tang Dynasty. Subtitles match the action so they are generally good.
The majority of HarrisBiden votes were received after midnight and cannot be counted. That would restore the election with DJT having 80 M votes and winning in a landslide also defeating the Dem take over.
“ If Biden wins, I will begin to learn Mandarin on Babble.”
Not me. I’ll start learning where the enemy lives and what his patterns are. I am not giving up so easy. My life is good, and I don’t want it to change, but I will defend my country when needed.
Trump wins. - all hell breaks loose.
Biden wins - all hell breaks loose in a different way.
It’s a lose/lose situation for this country.
Prepare now.
Learn Mandarin? Why? So you can understand the orders to march into a camp? I’d rather die fighting them off.
Hope, really? The GOP SOS of GA just added 19 more drop boxes for expanded acceptance of mail in ballots in one of the major counties. The Dems have even more opportunity to cheat now. I'm not being one of the patented Debbie Downers that are so prevalent on FR these days; just wondering where this "hope" springs from?
The GOP in GA, and nationally, and jurists across the land have shown they are unwilling, or too cowardly to step up and confront this; happy to let the steal stand. At this point, the only Hope I can see turning this around is through Divine intervention. Even then, I am beginning to think it is just as likely that because of our sins, He is removing His hedge of protection and we, as a people, are being handed over to our enemies.
Play like you can win until the final whistle (12Noon, Jan 20, 2021), no matter the score. We have to realize though that the end is coming quickly, and we need to start preparing for what happens after the last down. It will be a brand new game with very serious consequences. Stay strong.
Hand of GOD.
The only way we ever get a fair election is if we carry guns in the Philadelphia, Detroit, etc. poll counting centers.
Im convinced they were all paid to steal the election, and that Obama was involved.
We now have a Kamala presidency, a woman born with Indian citizenship and a hatred of this country.
Thanks Joe Biden.
Time to get an AR15 and a thousand rounds of ammo.
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