[vannrox]

The choices of this civil war are painfully clear.

We can have a system of government based around the Constitution with democratically elected representatives. Or we can have one based on the ideological principles of the left in which all laws and processes, including elections and the Constitution, are fig leaves for enforcing social justice.

But we cannot have both.

Some civil wars happen when a political conflict can’t be resolved at the political level. The really bad ones happen when an irresolvable political conflict combines with an irresolvable cultural conflict.

That is what we have now.

[Ransomed]

“Some civil wars happen when a political conflict can’t be resolved at the political level.”

We haven’t even had 65% eligible voter turnout in presidential since 1908. Off year congressional elections average around 40%, way less for local elections. Most of the time the national popular vote is won by less than 5%. All campaign money is meant to sway the swayable into voting one way or another or even to vote or not vote at all. And supposedly the swayable decide elections, the so-called ‘swing voter’.

It’s pretty amazing if true, that the dumbest 10% of voters who somehow still manage to vote actually determines political winners based on who can sway them that cycle. So no matter who wins, dem or pub, con or lib, the dumbest decide the outcome for reasons that don’t comport rationally with any type of coherent political philosophy they can articulate. One time they might vote for someone because they seem well spoken, another time they vote for someone who is physically attractive or ahead in the polls or whatever. Dem or pub has nothing to do with it for them.

Freegards