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Who’s to Blame for Our Bitter Divide?
Townhall.com ^ | November 4, 2018 | John C. Goodman

Posted on 11/04/2018 6:56:40 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Given the constant hate spewed by the Left toward White people, Straight people, Men, etc......is it any wonder why we will not go along with the Left’s obsessive drive to try to infringe on (the first step toward abolishing which is their ultimate goal) our right to keep and bear arms?

I will go along with calls to give up my guns made by people who I know hate me and wish me harm.


21 posted on 11/04/2018 7:22:41 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

ugh. That last sentence should read “never go along with”


22 posted on 11/04/2018 7:23:07 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Animal Farm, George Orwell
23 posted on 11/04/2018 7:31:38 AM PST by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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To: Kaslin

Who’s to blame? I’m going with the media.


24 posted on 11/04/2018 7:40:25 AM PST by proud American in Canada
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To: Kaslin

And yes this country is totally divided. My sister is a Democrat, totally hates Trump. I’m the opposite. So I avoid talking politics with her. She is my sister and I love her.


25 posted on 11/04/2018 7:41:27 AM PST by proud American in Canada
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To: Kaslin
Obama and the Left brought revolution to America.
26 posted on 11/04/2018 7:41:35 AM PST by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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To: Kaslin

The United States has had divisions throughout its history. Previously, the people, although divided, had a common culture, heritage, religion, and love of country that ultimately bound them together.

Lincoln spoke about the “the mystic chords of memory” binding the country together after the Civil War.

Now, with an increasing number of imported people hostile to or bereft of that memory, and a whole generation of native born being taught to despise those chords of memory, we are now in a more serious situation.


27 posted on 11/04/2018 7:52:19 AM PST by odawg
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To: Kaslin

BS premise that we should not accept. Our side has nothing to do with the leftists who use division and violent rhetoric and tactics as a political tool. We want to be left alone and the left will one day push too far which will be doom on them.


28 posted on 11/04/2018 7:57:53 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: FLT-bird
I will go along with calls to give up my guns...

May your chairs rest lightly.

29 posted on 11/04/2018 8:08:38 AM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: palmer; FLT-bird

What, is this the garbled meaning thread?


30 posted on 11/04/2018 8:33:35 AM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: polymuser; Kaslin
"I posit it has been (under the radar) socialists/communists wooing our young, our women and our blacks to abandon God, logic and truth and grab onto emotion-driven drivel that make them feel good."

This statement represents another way to express the central problem of the past 100+ years.

Indoctrination into the cultist Progressive ideology reflects itself in a person's observations and comments on today's sad occurrences. When one sees his world through that limiting lens, then truth and objectivity, reason and enlightenment seem to abandon every discussion.

"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
If there is no God, everything is permitted." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

31 posted on 11/04/2018 9:06:53 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: thoughtomator

The split was inevitable with the end of the Cold War, when there was an existential physical threat.

It has taken a generation to break with Cold War political patterns. And note that throwbacks like the Clintonistas and McCainiac war-mongers want to keep the Cold War mindset and troop distribution.


32 posted on 11/04/2018 9:13:09 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: Chickensoup; null and void; aragorn; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; ...
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PING

Article and # 8.

33 posted on 11/04/2018 10:54:09 AM PST by LucyT
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To: Kaslin

Can I blame the freeloaders?


34 posted on 11/04/2018 10:56:50 AM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: loveliberty2

Yup. Dewey, Wilson, The Frankfurt School...a few of the key progressive/cultural socialist players.


35 posted on 11/04/2018 11:50:06 AM PST by polymuser (ItÂ’s terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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