Agreed.
What’s lower than a banana Republic? That’s what we’ve become.
The problem being that about 50% of the current American public think that everything is just fine the way it is, or even that things still haven’t gone far enough.
I really think that, at this point, the only way to avoid a major hot conflict is to effect some kind of Partition, the way India did. That, of course raises all kinds of other unpleasant questions, like which side gets which states, and how to effectively shift people around so that those who currently live in states that will end up on “the other side” can move to someplace that better suits their beliefs. Not to mention the question of trade, and how the current flow of goods will have to be adjusted to conform to the new situation. Despite these (and the innumerable questions I didn’t list) and the implicit disruption such a partition would entail both internally and worldwide, I really think that in the end it would still cause less damage than an actual fight (which is what is brewing currently).
The backdrop to all of this racial tension is that Trump was winning the persuasion war by making citizens afraid of external threats from illegal immigrants and terrorists. That was a strong formula because people respond to fear.
But Clinton’s team – including social media and the liberal-leaning mainstream media – responded by defining Trump as a literal Hitler. A Hitler-like leader in your own country is even scarier than external threats. Persuasion-wise, it is a winning formula for Team Clinton, even though the case is built on confirmation bias, not fact. (Trump has never mentioned race in a negative way.)
So now we have a situation in which Team Clinton has scared citizens into thinking the threat to their lives is mostly domestic, coming from Trump, Trump supporters, and anyone who looks like them. People who are scared will act. And we see those actions now in terms of violence against police, violence against Trump supporters, and death threats to bloggers such as me. And we already have one attempted Trump assassination.
That article is another snake’s rattle the self-styled elite will ignore.