Posted on 09/30/2018 10:57:22 PM PDT by aquila48
Americans keep dividing into two hostile camps.
It seems the country is back to 1860 on the eve of the Civil War, rather than in 2018, during the greatest age of affluence, leisure and freedom in the history of civilization.
The ancient historian Thucydides called the civil discord that tore apart the fifth century B.C. Greek city-states stasis. He saw stasis as a bitter civil war between the revolutionary masses and the traditionalist middle and upper classes. Something like that ancient divide is now infecting every aspect of American life.
Americans increasingly are either proud of past U.S. traditions, ongoing reform and current American exceptionalism, or they insist that the country was hopelessly flawed at its birth and must be radically reinvented to rectify its original sins.
No sphere of life is immune from the subsequent politicization: not movies, television, professional sports, late-night comedy or colleges. Even hurricanes are typically leveraged to advance political agendas.
What is causing America to turn differences into these bitter hatreds and why now?
The internet and social media often descend into an electronic lynch mob. In a nanosecond, an insignificant local news story goes viral. Immediately hundreds of millions of people use it to drum up the evils or virtues of either progressivism or conservatism.
Anonymity is a force multiplier of these tensions. Fake online identities provide cover for ever greater extremism on the logic that no one is ever called to account for his or her words.
Speed is also the enemy of common sense and restraint. Millions of bloggers rush to be the first to post their take on a news event, without much worry about whether it soon becomes a fake news moment of unsubstantiated gossip and fiction.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...
Can I do the sterilization part?
Us Constitution, Amendment 5: - Protection of Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger. ... .
Just So. But with the death of the Soviet Unions Central Committee and Comintern [CI] that mission now falls to their stepchild, the Democrat-Socialist media of the USA.
The Tsar is dead; long live the new Tsar.
To begin with, when the time comes to replace Ruth Bader-Meinhoff, nominate former Alabama Chief Justice [and West Pointer] Roy Moore. That will immediately incur the rath of eliminating the claim that the post is a *womewn's justice* vacancy to be filled only by a broad in a black dress, but will also mock the claim that the fale sex charges accusers can be believed. And, in the event that the opponents manage to block the approval or seating of the Justice, no problem: the liberal woman's position remains vacant and mooted.
With any luck at all, that will give the other two a serious case of apoplrxy, which they may not survive.
It's been more than half a lifetime ago since I experienced the Cuban Revolution, in 1958, at ten years of age. Though I did not stay for the final act [Thanks, Marines!] I got enough of a taste of it that I've always hoped it would never come to the USA...and that it could, and now it has.
That time, I was too young to be able to shoot back. This time, I am not.
No one is going to nominate anyone 70+ to the USSC. Merrick Garland was considered a compromise because he’s in his 60s and wouldn’t serve so long.
All it would take would be the crash of Air Force One with President Trump aboard. Oh, and the FBI investigating the *Accident.*
Game on.
Make that *Sterilize and behead* and you've got my backing. And that of my pals.
Concur. But expect an increase of home invasion massacres with no surviving witnesses. And, shortly thereafter, rural roadblocks with occasional on-the-spot executions of occupants who fail the local purity test.
lolol
Everything I've seen in the last 15 years tells me that the Combat Arms services- the Infantry, Armor, Artillery and Combat Engineers- not to forget evac section and battalion level combat medics- generally detested the Obama leadership period and come from generally Trump-supportive families.
Yep, there are some college ROTC-trained junior officer lefties, and trhere's rot galore in the Military Intelligence Corps in particular, especially among those brown-nosing for future three and four-letter agency governmental paychecks.
About the Navy and Coasties, I'm not that close an observer [though a former Dept of the Navy civilian employee] but would bet that at the very worst the decay there would be no worse than 50%...as it was at times under GW Bush.
Lindsays at it again! WTH?!?!
#84380
https://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-48360-post-1862594.html#pid1862594
He is 100% right on and the little ricin thing today is going to unleash the wrath of Darth Mattis.
Yes and yes.
The time is near...
Ping
Thank you so much. There are many reasons to be optimistic at this point. After reading the previous posts in this thread, its easy to be depressed.
Cementing the Judicial branch of our Republic is key, and the left is frantic to stop the process.
I hope to see more posts from you on FR.
BTW, I can never play Twatter videos. No idea why.
Some woman(?) that works for Feinstien. See the “cat lady” link in post 140 (the post I was replying too)
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