Posted on 01/14/2021 11:41:11 AM PST by rickmichaels
America is a tinderbox.
A smouldering, snarling, hyper-partisan, violent tinderbox.
And decisions taken in the next few days and weeks will determine whether that tinderbox explodes or not – now or some place down the road.
I've lived and worked in the United States on and off for 15 years.
It's a country I've grown to love as a second home.
But right now, I've never been more worried for its future.
Three events in the past year have led to this breaking point: the coronavirus pandemic, George Floyd's killing, and Donald Trump's refusal to accept the result of the 2020 Election.
Americans are now fearful, for both their health and prosperity, mournful for all those lost to COVID-19, resentful and distrusting of their Government, and, increasingly, at dangerously enraged loggerheads with each other.
The appalling riots at the US Capitol last week represented the moment all the toxic tribalism fuelled by Trump erupted in a direct attack on the very heart of US democracy.
The more we learn of what went on that day, the worst it gets.
A police officer dragged into a frenzied mob where he was murdered.
A Nazi sympathiser with 'Camp Auschwitz' emblazoned on his T-shirt.
Armed thugs chanting 'HANG MIKE PENCE!' and building gallows and nooses to do just that.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I’ve concluded that Piers decides what stance to take based on what will annoy the most people.
More people in the USA are moderate-conservative so when he was here, he adopted more leftist stances to annoy us.
Now that he’s in the UK, where there are more lefties, he adopts more moderate stances to annoy them.
There should be statues of Joe McCarthy.
LOL! The erstwhile fweedumb luvin’ commiela hawiss would want them torn down.
Piers is smearing Trump like the left did McCarthy.
-PJ
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