The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(08-31-2020, 08:09 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Yep. I'm still yapping and I plan to continue yapping until the shooting starts. Then, I'm free to start treating you and the others as enemies of the American state. Can't do much other than yap considering the way we are communicating and the distance between us. Do you know what I heard and watched on Fox news this evening? I heard about another killing that occurred in Portland and I watched as a Trump supporter was gunned down in cold blood by a member of Black Lives Matter as it occurred live and uncensored which has already been released and gone viral. Like I told you before, I don't give a shit if you're a cripple and have a mental disorder caused by a brain tumor and probably shouldn't be posting on a public forum about shit that you know little about at this particular time in our history as a nation. You're a big boy who has a right to make his own decisions and speak freely.

So long as you are aware that the yapping sounds quite a bit like 'Brack buck buck buck'.

Not against the American State.  I do occasionally reference the Cousin’s War perspective.  This traces back to the English Civil War, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War.  There are two cultures in conflict in all three wars, which evolved into the red blue divide today.  It all started with the Cavaliers who tended to settle near Virginia, and the Roundheads near New England.  Both elements have contributed to American culture, but both are American.  The more rural, conservative, Cavalier faction just got more tied up with the elitists and the racists.  I am more sympathetic with the progressive faction that wants to get rid of the worst elements of the culture every four score and seven years.  If the conservatives could be purged of the affinity for racism and a division of wealth, they would be a better contribution to what America ought to be.

In cold blood?  The way the coastal media is covering the event, the Trump supporters in pickup trucks, were firing paint guns into crowds of peaceful protesters.  Nothing was happening until the Trump caravan arrived.  By carrying both paint ball guns which were used freely and real weapons should their opponents respond, they were showing a premeditated desire to provoke and escalate.  Paint guns, for example, are traditionally used against people with eye protection, which  most of the protestors did not have.  Yet, the Trump supporters fired into the crowd.  Also, most people should have been aware that wherever any protestor protesting anything is present, the Boogaloo boys and their ilk will be there too.  They want to escalate the violence too, to start their boogaloo.  If you get two allegedly right wing factions eager to escalate violence on opposite ’sides’, guess what happens?  What are the local blue government, good cops and protestors exercising their First Amendment rights to do?

Violence isn’t a sport.  It ought to be a last resort.  People whose understanding of violence is limited to sporting events have to learn, have to grow up.  But if they live in the Fox bubble and hear only the red version of events, they can’t.