Posted on 05/25/2019 9:55:55 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Sometimes you write about the most obvious thing in the world because it is the most important thing. Reaction to the outcome of Robert Mueller’s investigation shows Americans again how divided we are. If you are more or less of the left, you experienced the probe as a search for truth that would restore the previous world of politics. Instead the traitor got away with it and you feel destabilized, deflated. If you are of the Trumpian right, it was from the beginning an attempted coup, the establishment using everything it had to remove a force it could not defeat at the polls. You are energized, elated.
Now both sides will settle down, with the left as forthcoming in its defeat as the right is forbearing in its victory. I just wanted to show you my fantasy life. The Trump forces will strike with a great pent-up anger, and the left will never let go.
Both sides will be intensely human. And inhuman. Because the past few years the character of our political divisions has changed, and this must be noted again. People are proud of their bitterness now. Old America used to accept our splits as part of the price of being us—numerous, varied, ornery. Current America, with its moderating institutions (churches) going down and its dividing institutions (the internet) rising, sees our polarization not as something to be healed but a reason for being, something to get up for. There’s a finality to it, a war-to-the-death quality.
It is shocking, and I say this as a person always generally unshocked by American political division. When I was a kid we came together as a nation when John F. Kennedy died and manned rockets went up, but after that it was pretty much turmoil—Vietnam, demonstrations, Watergate.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
What I want to know is are all the people commenting on this WSJ subscribers? I finally let mine go, it just doesn’t have that much value. If not are the commenting on the tease?
I hate paywall posts even more than blog pimping.
That is why TRUTH-seekers, benevolent and honest people demand the revelation of TRUTH.
That is also why the Democrats are fighting with everything they've got to prevent the revelation of TRUTH.
Note tagline.
Stick with the Left, Peggy because when the shtf your name will be on the list.
Peggy yearns for the days when she creamed herself over the numinous negro.
I don’t expect more than 5 years to pass before Leftist violence forces civilized people to put those rabid animals down.
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If you are of the Trumpian right...
I don’t find anything in the WSJ editorial page that I agree with anymore.
Karl friggin Rove is a columnist.
“There’s one America, and there’s a metastasizing cancer.”
I could not agree more.
Agree with post above ... there is but ONE America and a lawless one.
It all comes down to abortion. There are people who can compromise their conscience to acquiesce to the wholesale killing of pre born human life. Such people are capable of any moral compromise. Then there are people who will not acquiesce to such killing. They have real moral values. The first group can never be trusted in any matter of importance. The second group wisely has as little to do with the first group as possible. The division is real and cannot be bridged. All else follows.
Oh, Peggy
The media told us that JFK was a hero.
Turns out, he fell asleep at the wheel while in a combat zone and got run over by a Japanese destroyer.
Then he got his behind handed to him by the communists in Turkey and Cuba.
We then found out he was cheating on his wife with a communist spy.
Isn’t it convenient that he backed down to the communists?
It’s almost like the communists were blackmailing him.
So, then the Democrats murdered him to cover everything up.
We’ve had decades of the Democrat Party lying, stealing and murdering.
I am not a trumpian. He works for us. We are not his disciples
And we are of no particular philosophy. We just want our government to do their job and quit destrying the country and culture
I am sure he would agree.
Noonan, get out of the East and West Coast group-think mentality, and enjoy the objectivity most ordinary Americans can bring to the subject of Trump, whether they are degreed thinkers, or they are what Jefferson called "ploughmen."
That genius who, at Age 33, authored the document of our national freedom, The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, made a wise observation Noonan might consult for reference:"State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, & often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules." - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Peter Carr
Peggy Noonan (what grown woman still calls herself Peggy?) is a product of one too many DeeCee cocktail hours. I detest her GOPe positions.
Peggy Noonan has lost her way since Trump came on the scene. But I have to say that there is some truth to this particular column.With cable news 24/7 passing off their horseshoe desk opinion commentary geared to creating outrage as news, many watching it have adopted the narratives and heatedly recite chapter and verse until the next outrage has been produced by cable news that they can latch on to. Dems are particularly good at hurling the buzzwords “racist, cruel, ignorant”, etc in their arguments.
the likely scenario to happen in America is the Spanish Civil War.
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The Irish Troubles.
I'm concerned about their LGBTQ brigades.
It’s not paywalled on Piggy’s site:
http://www.peggynoonan.com/the-two-americas-have-grown-much-fiercer/
She has a gift of using words that paint an accurate picture.
In a way, she reminds me of Art Buchwald, only with more band wagon jumping.
All we have to do is elect DJT again. For those who want to bring this all to a head, VOTE TRUMP!
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