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How It Looks if Trump Wins; How It Looks if Biden Wins
American Thinker ^ | 12 Dec, 2020 | Veronika Kyrylenko

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.

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


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; insurrection
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To: oldasrocks

Learning the enemy’s language affords all sorts of combat and intelligence benefits. To not learn is to give them another weapon to use against you, while you remain ignorant of their intentions


21 posted on 12/12/2020 6:56:38 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

“You must learn to think in Russian”


22 posted on 12/12/2020 6:57:23 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

As we go forward, we need to know how to break the propaganda.

On twitter, I add the message (2 + 2 = 5) on every news story that the Kamala Communist regime posts.


23 posted on 12/12/2020 7:01:49 AM PST by PA-RIVER ( )
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To: Morpheus2009

“politicians know that they can get away with doing whatever since they cannot lose an election anymore”

That’s perhaps the most profound comment made on this topic and something I’ve be screaming.

The polidiots will do as they please since we have no voice in the matter.


24 posted on 12/12/2020 7:03:51 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: dfwgator

“You must learn to think in Russian”

I did for 4 years, thank you. And you?


25 posted on 12/12/2020 7:04:45 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

“We’re done because no one seems to understan”

Actually, we DO understand it and have been saying so.

What we have been saying is that since no legal authority will uphold it then we no longer have a country.


26 posted on 12/12/2020 7:04:52 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: oldasrocks

“Learn Mandarin? Why? So you can understand the orders to march into a camp? I’d rather die fighting them off”

Exactly. Make the bastards learn our English!


27 posted on 12/12/2020 7:05:19 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: PA-RIVER

“Time to get an AR15 and a thousand rounds of ammo.”

Good luck finding those. You can, but it is sketchy at best.


28 posted on 12/12/2020 7:06:35 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: metmom
When Harris gets her hands on the reins of power, you are not going to like it. She is pure T evil. It was Harris, not Biden that this election was all about. The only question remaining to be answered concerning Biden is how long will he be permitted to pretend to be president.

The Republican Party, the Alphabet News Agencies Agencies, the Democrat Party, a/k/a the Communists and Socialists, traitors to America, fools, parasites, idiots, the Courts both State and Federal, including as just was proven the Supreme Court all want President out of power. Only some of the people wish him to remain in power and serve out the term he was legally elected to. The afore mentioned either prefer a Communists Government or don't care as long as their desire for free dope, free sex, free housing, free money, and free medical when needed are met.

Kamala Harris: Once the reins of power touches her hands, her power as long as she obeys the orders of her masters, the Globalists, her power over the lives of her serfs will to total or 99% total. She hates President Trump, his supporters and voters specifically and White People generally. And as has been proven by the number of Black males she has prosecuted, she is not fond of Black males either. But if the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, the State Courts, the Federal Courts, the Supreme Court want her to have and exercise Power over the serfs[US] . Enjoy her!

29 posted on 12/12/2020 7:11:25 AM PST by sport
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To: CodeToad

If you understand that Federal elections take one day only, then bring the case! SCOTUS seldom over rules itself so give it a try.


30 posted on 12/12/2020 7:11:53 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MtnClimber

If Biden wins then the CCP takes over our country and the rest of the world. All the usual suspects will finally be able to put their vaunted utopia-without-God into place.


31 posted on 12/12/2020 7:15:01 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: PIF

Gung Hee Fat Choy!


32 posted on 12/12/2020 7:15:12 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: oldasrocks
Learn Mandarin? Why? So you can understand the orders to march into a camp? I’d rather die fighting them off.

If China marched us in to camps, who would buy their TVs?

I don't worry about China. If we're going to have communism, I'd rather China be running the place than Kamala Harris. At least in China, they shoot their corrupt politicians and business leaders.

33 posted on 12/12/2020 7:16:44 AM PST by Drew68
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To: glimmerman70
His hand is working even now. At this point, we may be past the first horseman (conquest, which could have been accomplished by pestilence allowing for the globalist lockdowns and consolidation of power).

Next horseman is War...

34 posted on 12/12/2020 7:19:25 AM PST by Liberty Tree Surgeon
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


35 posted on 12/12/2020 7:22:45 AM PST by moovova
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To: glimmerman70
Hand of GOD.

Yep. Like I said, He's got a habit of giving us what we deserve, not what we want.

36 posted on 12/12/2020 7:26:18 AM PST by Turbo Pig (To close with and destroy....)
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To: MtnClimber
This article is very superficial.

While I am tempted to fall into despair about this country becoming Venezuela del Norte, there are important roadblocks beyond the Georgia Senate runoffs.

First of all, in spite of the Media/ Big Tech propaganda, about half the country, including many Democrats, thinks that the election was crooked. This would undermine the legitimacy of and limit the political capital of a Biden Administration. And, just like the Hunter Biden story, the news of the election corruption will get a lot more visibility later on.

And this gets me to the Game of Thrones kind of angle. The Democratic Party's factions are preparing for internal conflict for the throne. Biden (or his wife or whoever calls the shots) is going to put Swamp Creatures in the Cabinet. Kamala Harris and the radicals will want to push Biden aside. But what if Dr. Jill/Swamp Thing/WinnXi the Pooh don't want Biden pushed aside?

37 posted on 12/12/2020 7:31:36 AM PST by Lysandru
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To: Candor7

Gung Hee Fat Choy!

Lay off the General Tso’s Chicken! The neighbors are missing their cats.


38 posted on 12/12/2020 7:34:23 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Lysandru

Oh, they are already banning people on YouTube and Twitter for suggesting that the election is crooked in any way.


39 posted on 12/12/2020 7:43:22 AM PST by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: PIF

Got a link to that ruling? Thanks.


40 posted on 12/12/2020 7:59:09 AM PST by upchuck (When Democrats cheat in front of the whole world, what do you think they will do behind your back?)
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