Posted on 04/10/2022 12:12:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
However this era of angry polarization, crime and violence ends, it will be left to historians to decipher how America got so far off track. Instead of building on our unprecedented prosperity and role as the world’s ultimate superpower, we declared war — cultural, political and social — on each other. Even our nation’s Founders are not spared.
The reasons will be better understood in hindsight, but it’s hard to believe the 2016 presidential campaign won’t be seen as an inflection point. Our move toward disunion didn’t begin then, but it certainly gained steam and vitriol during and after the election of Donald Trump.
Two recent developments illustrate how that campaign remains a radioactive hot spot.
Just when you think you’ve seen the worst of her, proof emerges that she was even more duplicitous than we knew.
The first evidence came in a little-noticed decision from the Federal Election Commission. It ruled on a complaint from the Coolidge Reagan Foundation that Clinton and the Democratic National Committee violated federal law by hiding how they funded the odious Christopher Steele dossier, perhaps the most destructive disinformation document in United States history.
The second recent development involves a new court filing by special counsel John Durham in the case of Michael Sussmann, a Clinton lawyer and campaign operative. His alleged role expands the deception annals by showing Clinton’s team wasn’t relying only on Steele’s farrago of lies, lies and more lies.
Clinton lost the election and Robert Mueller’s special counsel probe came up empty, yet the collusion narrative lives on among major elements of the political left. To judge from the tumultuous years since, many of those who subscribe to her lie are using it as a license to try to destroy America.
Tragically, they are having a good deal of success.
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However this era of angry polarization, crime and violence ends, it will be left to historians to decipher how America got so far off track.
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We left the rails of the Constitution the day ALL of our elected AND appointed swore in the ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia.
No one born with more than ONE nationality is NATURALLY an American.
He proceeded to corrupt our entire government.
In his spare time he fomented racial grievances and sexual perversions.
Trump won in 2016, but it cost him and the country dearly.
Hillary had a triumph of her own by causing Biden to become POTUS.
Cost - $40 million. Cankles' lawyers should give it back.
How did Trump winning “cost the country dearly”???
If you look at the entire lifespan of the Clinton’s, collectively they along with the Bush Clan have done more to damage this country it’s beyond comprehension.
Bill Clinton was a smooth-talking redneck from Arkansas who wanted to screw anything with 2 legs, between him and Hillary they scammed, robbed, cheated and probably murdered their way to the highest levels of our government.
If historians were accurate, they would record the Clinton’s has the two worst things in American Politics in history.
Leaving aside the subject of all the Russian oligarchs who contributed to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for favors Clinton’s state department doled out.
Glad I’m not on HILLARY’S SIDE regarding Ukraine.
Can you expound on this? (It's not clear what you mean.)
Trump's victory in 2016 exposed the rot and the corruption in our government and in our institutions; if this be considered a "cost" to our country, then so be it. I consider it an exposé that most, if not all of it, had become nothing more than a pack of lies.
The soft coup that took place in November of 2020 simply confirmed it; we're a banana republic.
Almost all of what infects our politics, and for that matter the society at large because everything is politics these days, emanated from the universities. (It could be argued that so-called “think tanks” were important too, but they are essentially auxiliaries of academia.) Not only were the universities conquered by the Left, but their influence has permeated all the other elements - media, journalism, arts, and even corporations and the military - through indoctrination of their graduates. By the way, Ms. Clinton exemplifies this - she was conservative at first but was thoroughly leftist before graduating.
Yes. It is tough being Hillary now having lost to
the “super predator” pied piper candidate of her
own choosing. May as well be the Medusa that never
dies for all the continual worms sprouting from her
mouth. Must sell more books being the way she is now.
Haven’t seen so much competition for famous last words
since Tolstoy at the train station. Which one of these
dueling Clinton banjos is going stop playing first?
Soros and nations hostile to the US discovered the ways to influence the Democrat Party: blackmail, bribery, threats.
I would say it started under the eight years of lawlessness of the Clinton Admin. A brief respite during the George W era, but then Obama went really over the edge. And all with a complicit sycophantic media. Now we are in the third term of Obama and look where we are.
The Horny Hick from Hope and his harridan wife, who sold her soul for wealth and political power. The two most successful grifters in history, when measured by a monetary standard. Have acted above the law for forty years. They can burn in hell forever AFAIC. Yet, unaccountably, they still have their adoring fans in the media and elsewhere. Bill never gave a sh*t about anything other than where his next piece of a** or bj was coming from.
More duplicitous than who knew?
We knew.
You just had your head up your a—!
Say what you will about George H W Bush but I believe he was a good man. He was one of the youngest naval aviators in WWII and survived being shot down in the Pacific. He also had a wealth of foreign policy experience. Yet with the help of the media he was painted as weak and wimpy in the 1992 election.
I am aware of HW Bush and his military career, but he took the America Ronald Reagan left for him and said, “Read My Lips”, then totally reversed himself and was a “new world order” member which is part of the downfall of America. He was the epitome of the Country Club liberal Republican.
His son and I voted for all of them every time, the younger Bush was abysmal, two pointless wars, China appeasement, and all for illegal immigration.
It says something for both of them how close they became with the Clinton’s and Obama’s...you can be a gracious loser but becoming great friends with the Clinton’s says something about their beliefs.
At some point, we have to separate military heroism from what’s great for America when they assume political power.
I never understood that either. They should have kept them at arm's length ... or even further away. But maybe it's some unwritten rule of the ex-President's Club to show solidarity.
>> I would say it started … <<
… at the 2000 DNC when democrats boo’ed Boy Scouts reciting the Pledge of Allegience because the organization did not want openly gay Scout Leaders.
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