[maica]

When I lived in Jamaica decades ago, there were two labor unions that lined up with the two political parties. Faction fighting reminded me way back then of the intensity that Americans had for choosing teams/leagues in baseball - back then baseball was the national sport where everyone had a favorite.

I felt very smug that we Americans used our loyalty for a sport rather than civic disrest.

I don’t know what’s going on in Jamaica these days, but our political parties have turned into the seriously opposing divisions that Jamaicans knew back then. It is so unhealthy. After an election there, the construction workers, for example, and the people in ‘government’ housing, expected the working men and the householders to be removed instantly in favor of the new party members. I mean protests at the building sites the day after the results were in!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I felt very smug that we Americans used our loyalty for a sport rather than civic disrest.

Well sports is a subterfuge. America was founded on a revolution against tyranny, and now we have major corruption in the face of widespread apathy and class warfare (another ruse).

If we don't get some reactionary citizen pushback soon, we will be seeing some serious "civic disrest" or outright civil war.

[kabar]

I don’t know what’s going on in Jamaica these days, but our political parties have turned into the seriously opposing divisions that Jamaicans knew back then. It is so unhealthy.

Unhealthy? We have some very profound political differences that will lead us in different directions. We are either going to down the road to destruction by expanding the welfare state and the role of government in our lives, which will bankrupt the country and eviscerate the Constitution or we can return to limited government, a contraction of the welfare state, protection of individual liberties, and a return to the vision of our Founders.

There is little to compromise among these two views. The left wants to transform the country while we want to restore the idea of American exceptionalism. This is a life and death struggle.

[rodguy911]

Some of us think that the Republican Party has been stolen(by the GOP-e) that it is our party and rather than run away and create havoc and madness by insuring the left wins forever by starting a third party it must might make more sense to take back that which was ours to begin with.

[DanZ]

“- but our political parties have turned into the seriously opposing divisions that Jamaicans knew back then. It is so unhealthy.-”

Politics is WAR. Socialist slavery is a bad option. Live Free or Die.

30+ million Ukrainians and other no longer Russians, died during the U.S.S.R experiment. In the late 70’s 3+ million died in Cambodia under the Camer Rouge.

FDR sold eastern Europe to Communist slavery.

Today Obama is allowing Iran to go nuclear. Looks a lot like 1914