Posted on 09/28/2025 6:20:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It may be impossible to reconcile a nation so divided about basic truths.
How does America survive when its citizens belong to two divided camps that believe fundamentally incompatible things?
Over the last century, there has been a trend to establish “truth and reconciliation commissions” in countries emerging from periods of political terrorism, totalitarianism, or civil war. The idea is to acknowledge the crimes and atrocities that past governments officially sanctioned and to recognize the harms inflicted upon their victims. As is often the case when governments “disappear” citizens or throw them in gulags for their politically incorrect thoughts, it is the not knowing that haunts society. Survivors bereft of answers are left with inconsolable anguish. The commissions are often used as a first step toward healing grave national trauma.
It is no surprise that these commissions generally reflect the worldviews of the prevailing government that forms them. Communist governments are quick to label past “right-wing” officials as “murderers” while memorializing their own murderers as “patriots,” “civil rights heroes,” or “noble revolutionaries.” Politically correct governments in the West today often describe their countries’ founders and explorers as “racists,” “white supremacists,” “imperialists,” and perpetrators of “genocide.” No doubt the people alive during these consequential periods of history would take exception to the way they are remembered, but descendants — particularly descendants in possession of political power — maintain at least a temporary monopoly over the historical record.
Although Democrat politicians and Antifa terrorists hysterically insist that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are “disappearing” foreign nationals present in the United States illegally, that is not the case. But that lie — reinforced on Wikipedia, news blogs, and on cable news — is one example of an expanding collection of diametrically held beliefs deeply dividing the American people.
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The left has gone totally insane. I don’t see a way to compromise with the left.
Didn’t this all play out in Spain many years ago? I think the solution was just to “fight it out in the streets”.
Rather than fight it out in the streets are seriously outnumbered, the City States must be cut off and starved into submission
We need to limit the ability of Democrats to buy votes by placing middle-class tax caps in the federal constitution.
Drop two bills in the hopper and fight to limit the ability of Democrats to buy votes at the expense of the middle class.
Federal taxation on personal income shall be progressively capped as follows:
below 20% of the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 10%,
below 50% of the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 22%,
below the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 30%,
below the average federal full-time civilian employee compensation of the 100,000 largest recipients, 35%,
below the average federal full-time civilian employee compensation of the 10,000 largest recipients, 40%.
[Note 1: All percentages to include employee FICA and self-employment tax as they are income taxes.]
[Note 2: These are very close to the combined (1040 + employee FICA & Medicare) personal income tax rates now levied.]
[Note 3: Anything that the IRS would as of January 1, 2024 legally be able to collect income tax on if provided to any person would be considered compensation.]
Levies on any residential property of less than 2799 square feet of finished living space shall be no higher than the 2019 dollar amounts for the property, or for a newer or since resold property no higher than what it would have been levied at for 2019 if it lacked owner specific tax breaks, increased by 3% per calendar year since 2019 and by any percentage increase to its finished living space.
Fighting in Congress to send middle-class income and property taxation cap constitutional amendments to the states would make Congress turn deep red come 2027.
In New England, at the beginning of the American Revolution, those Boston residents who sided with the British went with the British to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Perhaps our dissenting Americans may want to consider doing the same.
not if it remains ‘diverse’ and ‘multicultural’.
We are still living under the consequences of communist social policy created in the 1960s like the 1965 open border immigration act that completely changed American society, and ‘diversified’ it enough that now Christianity and the American people and traditional values are flooded away and outvoted by foreign masses.
There’s no way to unite with a monster. The monster must be defeated.
“the City States must be cut off”
Yes!
“and starved into submission”
I think they should be made totally independent.
They can keep all the invaders they want, and don’t want.
not just defeated, destroyed
By any means necessary.
Yes, sad to say.
We are a country of “socialists” (the right) and “communists” (the left).
We don’t have the money to satisfy either. The demands for free stuff exceeds our ability to borrow, so it is natural that there would be infighting.
I think we gave up on the original intent of our nation a long time ago so the question is more accurately “can we return to our founding intent?” becaues if we don’t it’s already lost.
“For the majority of Loyalists evacuating New York City in 1783 (the numbers would be in the tens of thousands) that land would be in Nova Scotia, one of the colonies that did not rebel against the British. So many Loyalists settled in this colony, that in 1785 it was partitioned in two, with the land west of the Bay of Fundy becoming the new Province of New Brunswick.”
“’We sailed from New York in the ship Esther with the fleet for Nova Scotia.’”
“’We reached our destination on the 8th day of October [1783], tired out with our long journey, and pitched our tents at the place now called Salamanca, near the shore. The next day we explored for a place to encamp, for the winter was near and we had no time to lose. The season was wet and cold, and we were much discouraged at the gloomy prospect before us. Those who had arrived a little earlier had made better preparations for the winter; some had built small log huts. This we could not do because of the lateness of our arrival. Snow fell on the 2nd day of November to the depth of six inches. We pitched our tents in the shelter of the woods and tried to cover them with spruce boughs. We used stones for fireplaces. Our tents had no floor but the ground. The winter was very cold, with deep snow, which we tried to keep from drifting in by putting a large rug at the door. The snow, which lay six feet around us, helped greatly in keeping out the cold. How we lived through that awful winter I hardly know. There were mothers, that had been reared in a pleasant country enjoying all the comforts of life, with helpless children in their arms. They clasped their infants to their bosoms and tried by the warmth of their own bodies to protect them from the bitter cold. Sometimes a part of the family had to remain up during the night to keep the fires burning, so as to keep the rest from freezing. Some destitute people made use of boards, which the older ones kept heating before the fire and applied by turns to the smaller children to keep them warm. Many women and children, and some of the men, died from cold and exposure. Graves were dug with axes and shovels near the spot where our party had landed, and there in stormy winter weather our loved ones were buried. We had no minister, so we had to bury them without any religious service, besides our own prayers. The first burial ground continued to be used for some years until it was nearly filled. We called it The Loyalist Provincials Burial Ground.’”
https://www.bergencountyhistory.org/loyalists-in-bergen
I would really like to see our political situation revert to a true Federation of the several states. And, in addition, I would like very large cities to be seen as separate political entities, not tied to their states for voting, but having virtually no political representation. Urban centers should be a political weakness, otherwise they tilt the whole board.
This is it. The spiritual battle between good and evil. And evil has one heck of a head start.
When people don’t believe as you do, it is because they don’t share the same reality.
It might be a good idea to stop feeding them.
Not possible.
Cities should not be allowed to vote for Senate.
We have to overcome the powerful media.
We can’t censor them or silence them; so what to do?
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