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Unpacking Ray Dalio’s Alarmist Prediction of Civil War
American Greatness ^ | 18 May, 2024 | Stephen Soukup

Posted on 05/18/2024 6:48:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 05/18/2024 6:48:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Why is it “destroying democracy” to oppose marxism?


2 posted on 05/18/2024 6:49:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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What’s the alternative, half the country or more living under what they consider an oppressive, tyrannical system that will destroy their lives? Better to have a friendly divorce and move on.


3 posted on 05/18/2024 7:03:07 AM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: MtnClimber

Uhhh, i dunno if i can stop chillin to Netflix long enough to chamber a round.


4 posted on 05/18/2024 7:03:19 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: MtnClimber

Ray neglects to mention who might win said civil war, hint, not the leftists.


5 posted on 05/18/2024 7:04:21 AM PDT by exnavy
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To: MtnClimber

As the nation deteriorates further, following an election oof yet more Democrats, there will be a last-ditch effort by Conservatives (surely not by Republicans) to fight the leftists.

Manyo of knew it was inevitable given the utter stupidity of American voters that the last stand would happen. The monolithic central government monster is swallowing America.

When an empty-headed perverted moron is elected president, many know the end is near.


6 posted on 05/18/2024 7:08:16 AM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rush! )
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This election would be a test of ‘can democracy work well? Will there be an acceptance of the rules and an ability to work well under those rules?’ he said.

I think this election will be so messed up, no one will be able to tell who won, but - strangely enough - this will only affect the Presidential race.

The ballot counting will drag on, many lawsuits filed from both sides, and SCOTUS will issue a narrow ruling that won't really mean anything.

It seems we on the Right would rather just separate from those on the Left - just go our individual ways, but (for some reason) the Left wants to hold us hostage to there form of governing...

7 posted on 05/18/2024 7:09:15 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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...Rather, the civil war Dalio envisions would involve “people mov[ing] to different states that are more aligned with what they want and they don’t follow the decisions of federal authorities of the opposite political persuasion.”

I see little wrong with this. Give the States back their rights (as expressed in the 10th Amendment) and each state can go Left or Right as the people see fit. Weaken the Feds - after all, the States created the Federal government...

8 posted on 05/18/2024 7:15:05 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: MtnClimber

1. Its funny that the Democrats and Biden are guilty of being authoritarian and of trashing the institutions and traditions in order to punish their political enemies. Trump who already had 4 years in office specifically DID NOT do those things. But in a sense he is right that Leftugees fleeing blue states...and let’s face it, far more people are moving from blue states to red states than vice versa...is in effect a force multiplier on the divisions that exist in the country.

I for one, would wholeheartedly support peaceful secession. That is exactly what the Founding Fathers intended and would result in the best outcome for all concerned. If the New England states and Hawaii and the Left Coast want to go their separate way....let them. We could negotiate a reasonable separation agreement if both sides were willing to do so. And yes, the Left might very well be willing if they’re not sure they could win a potential conflict.

On a side note, I think the Left very much needs to worry about whether or not they would win such a conflict. Does anybody see the furrys, the trannies, the chicks with two moms or the fat blue haired White chicks on college campuses who whine about everything being willing or able to take up arms to impose their rule on the red states? Now turn it around. Would normal, patriotic, gun-toting, Americans take up arms to defend themselves against Leftists seeking to impose their rule upon them? The answers are: 1. No and 2. hell yes they’d be willing to fight.


9 posted on 05/18/2024 7:20:38 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: GrumpyOldGuy

Exactly. You were much more succinct than I but I share your sentiments. Let the Leftist freaks and malcontents go.


10 posted on 05/18/2024 7:21:36 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: jeffc
It seems we on the Right would rather just separate from those on the Left - just go our individual ways, but (for some reason) the Left wants to hold us hostage to there form of governing...

the Left are authoritarian, self righteous and imperialist. Most on the Right simply want to be left alone.

11 posted on 05/18/2024 7:23:22 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: MtnClimber

The future’s uncertain and the end is always near…

Jim Morrison, The Doors, 1960’s.


12 posted on 05/18/2024 7:25:44 AM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: MtnClimber

Civil War II (if it happens) will not be a re-play of Civil War I. We are where we are today simply because the Federal Government has grown way beyond it Constitutional restraints.

As an example at the end of the the Civil War it still took a Constitutional amendment to end slavery in this nation. Since them how much has our society been changed not by the route the founding fathers outlined by by Congress, the Executive branch and the courts just ruled something to happen?

Civil War II should be the states taking back the power the Constitution gives them and restrict the Federal Government from acting within their state.


13 posted on 05/18/2024 7:27:17 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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Well, he’s not wrong in that the Left is intractably and willfully ignorant about their intent to destroy the United States at all costs. And their percentage is growing and being increasingly funded by hostile foreign sources.


14 posted on 05/18/2024 7:28:16 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: FLT-bird
That is true, and why we are at a disadvantage to the Left: they LOVE government, we abhor it. They flock to government because they lust for power over others.

We, as you said, just want to be left alone, as the Feds did for the first 30 or 40 years...

15 posted on 05/18/2024 7:38:17 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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”Better to have a friendly divorce and move on.”

The problem is Bolsheviks aren’t live-and-let-live types and will never permit an alternative ideology to exist. Especially when that rival ideology provides results which are superior in every way. 15 minutes after the friendly divorce, they would be busy trying to infest the foundations of their rival society.

16 posted on 05/18/2024 7:41:43 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: MtnClimber

I wonder what team ol’ Ray would bat for, if it came down to it.


17 posted on 05/18/2024 7:54:24 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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>> I see little wrong with this. Give the States back their rights... Weaken the Feds

I’m on board with that vision.


18 posted on 05/18/2024 7:56:22 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: MtnClimber

I would see more of a scenario of big city democrats marauding out in suburbia/exurbia which could lead to a bigger conflagration.


19 posted on 05/18/2024 7:58:18 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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The left: Our ideas are so good, they are mandatory.


20 posted on 05/18/2024 8:04:01 AM PDT by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head)
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