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Can our modern ‘house divided’ remain one nation?
New York Post ^ | October 12, 2018 | F.H. Buckley

Posted on 10/13/2018 6:33:22 PM PDT by TBP

We thought our politics couldn’t get any crazier, but the political divide and the breakdown in trust became even deeper after the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. When Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, we were permitted to disagree about who was telling the truth. No longer. This time you’re “complicit with evil” if you don’t believe his accusers and oppose Kavanaugh, said Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ).

Moral outrage has become the basic currency of political debate, with Hillary Clinton telling her supporters, “You cannot be civil,” and former Attorney General Eric Holder advising, “When they go low, we kick them.” So have we, as a story in The Washington Post says, hit rock bottom with no clear path up?

After Kavanaugh was confirmed, liberal columnist E.J. Dionne wrote that the Supreme Court’s legitimacy is in tatters. Kavanaugh was nominated by the president, as the Constitution requires, but many liberals think Trump an illegitimate president because more people voted for Clinton. As for the Senate, which confirmed Kavanaugh, it’s undemocratic because little North Dakota has the same number of senators as California.

This amounts to a claim that all three branches of government are illegitimate. To those making such claims, it’s the Constitution itself that is illegitimate.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blue; divided; red
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
1 posted on 10/13/2018 6:33:22 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP

Join the MOB or Get a JOB!

pretty tough choice


2 posted on 10/13/2018 6:34:49 PM PDT by eyeamok
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We just need to give back in-kind. The left will tire of that game quickly.


3 posted on 10/13/2018 6:37:50 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot (I won`t be wronged. I won`t be insulted. I won`t be laid a hand on. - John Bernard Books)
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To: TBP
This may indeed end up with invoking "Rule Three-Oh-Three."

These dumbass Democrats are going to push too far--and then they we will all rue the day.

4 posted on 10/13/2018 6:39:07 PM PDT by Lysandru
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“Can our modern ‘house divided’ remain one nation?”

Nope. Make note of where the fascist federal bureaucrats live in your community.


5 posted on 10/13/2018 6:43:35 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Hugh the Scot

“...We just need to give back in-kind. The left will tire of that game quickly....”

Exactly and DEFEAT the militant libs soundly. They are cowards and will roll over if they realize their actions bring quick and fierce retribution.


6 posted on 10/13/2018 6:43:42 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: TBP

It’s not divided. One side stayed where they are, or even went back to be here they should be. The other side, took an acetylene torch, cut the house in half, and keeps dropping sticks of dynamite into the crevice.


7 posted on 10/13/2018 6:43:49 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Pin drop time! Big-name lib swampers go into hiding!)
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To: TBP

The first Civil War was not complicated: North v South, mainly.
This one will be more complex: guerrilla sorties in a mob-on-one basis until the vipers nests get cleaned out.
And that will be a much more ugly proposition compared to one army against another on a field somewhere in the country.


8 posted on 10/13/2018 6:45:55 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017...The end of an error.)
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“The Perihelion” by D. M. Wozniak actually describes a US after a red-state, blue urban core split.

The nation votes for an amicable divorce. The cities put up walls and barriers you can’t pass without permission and an implanted ID. They build roads and rail networks that just connect with each other but mostly just fly across the red country.

You can immigrate one way or the other, but few do. They all split during the amicable divorce. It was seen as the solution to a civil war.

Then the red zones have their laws, the blue cores have theirs. And then a few of the genetically engineered the blue cores created start to revolt.


9 posted on 10/13/2018 7:21:06 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: TBP

Lincoln quoted that, but rather than let the southern states have take their peaceable leave, he insisted on the deaths of tens of thousands in order to “preserve” a house which was already divided.


10 posted on 10/13/2018 7:39:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Quite true. A series of personal vendettas and score settling on a grand scale.

No one is going to be in nice straight lines attacking the hill.

Ambush, raid and street assassinations will be the norm.


11 posted on 10/13/2018 7:47:36 PM PDT by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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To those making such claims, it’s the Constitution itself that is illegitimate.
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They thought they had rendered it moot with the Kenyanesian Usurpation.

They were not prepared for US resurrecting it.


12 posted on 10/13/2018 7:48:44 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: tbw2

I used to compulsively read science fiction but now have rejected it. My weird ways of doin things.

That book you mentioned sounds interesting, though. I guess I could pretend it’s like the Fail Safe and Red Storm Rising types and read it. Thanks for the info.


13 posted on 10/13/2018 7:50:11 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,noncitizens & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: TBP

Kick me.... I will break your kneecaps.

Kick my wife.... I’ll blow your brains out.

Actually, I am a nice guy, but I think most people have a dangerous side.

As far as I am concerned, it’s far too late bring us together.


14 posted on 10/13/2018 7:52:09 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
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Sure. Ship the crazed demonrats to Venezuela.


15 posted on 10/13/2018 8:48:55 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Lysandru

I got the nicest WWI era Enfield .303 rifle. Shoots flat to 300 yards it is a true battle rifle just like in Breaker Morant. Let the barking moonbats come at us I’m ready.


16 posted on 10/13/2018 9:26:25 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Oscar in Batangas

In this one there won’t be states and armies in uniform.


17 posted on 10/14/2018 1:39:23 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: TBP

Bkmk


18 posted on 10/14/2018 3:30:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Gator113

“As far as I am concerned, it’s far too late bring us together.”

I’m afraid you are right. The polarization is too deep, such that any reconciliation is just not possible.

My beloved America will see some very dark days in the not-too-distant future.


19 posted on 10/14/2018 4:33:03 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: elcid1970

“I got the nicest WWI era Enfield .303 rifle.”

Excellent!


20 posted on 10/14/2018 4:33:48 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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