The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(01-28-2022, 02:30 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-26-2022, 11:26 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(01-25-2022, 04:34 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-25-2022, 03:30 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(01-24-2022, 11:26 AM)David Horn Wrote: FWIW, I'm noticing that everyday ordinary people are starting to question why we are still trying to be one country.  I haven't seen that in the past.  The real question, when does that become an issue for the majority (or at least, a large minority)?  If and when it does, the USA is nearing its end as a united cluster of diverse states, and what follows may be chaos.

I notice that watching a documentary about the native first peoples who lived in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, and they describe that area as "that part of the country", and I think, is that really a part of my country? Are those areas a part of my country anymore?

First of all, America isn't your country and that will be proven beyond all doubt this year.

The same can be said for you.  We're all too divided now, and America is really more a Swiss Cheese nation than a unified one.Did 9/11 divide America or unite it?

Between September 11 and January 6 we had the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attack done by foreigners who hated America, the eightieth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor Attack led by a  criminal regime intent on conquering the Pacific Basin at least as far as the Big Island of Hawaii and perhaps Australia and New Zealand on the side. It was easy to hate those foreign enemies for their barbarity and contempt for what makes America what it is. Tolerance and freedom exist in America because of checks and balances and the rule of law, without which America becomes another Evil Empire.

On January 6, 2021, the people assaulting the ultimate check and balance  of a free and fair election that ousted a thoroughly-awful President who had already shown despotic tendencies, meanwhile showing contempt for the rule of law, tried to thwart what was usually a predictable event. Demonstrations would have been perfectly legal. A mass incursion into the Capitol building in an effort to disrupt the political process and negate an election was 100% unlawful.

Maybe you know nobody in your immediate area who contradict you.  Maybe you are as abrasive in person as you are in this Forum. Maybe everyone in your neighborhood knows not to discuss politics with you. Some of those people hold you in contempt for your political views. Maybe every liberal near you avoids you if possible.  It's easy to believe that nearly everybody you know at the least pretends to share your belief. 

Quote:You aren't very good at reading signs are you, Or, aren't you very good at accepting the signs that you are reading. Dude, its in the process of rapidly boiling down to Us vs Them with you being one of Them. Don't believe it, look at all the f-n polls? What's a blue billionaire worth to the country that made it possible for him/her to become a billionaire? So, can the Facebook dude afford to lose his American status? I don't know but we may find out soon enough. How about you, can you afford to lose your American status? I don't know but you could find out soon enough too. Eric and PB don't seem to care about it, so I'm going to assume that neither of Them care about losing their American status.

If being an American ever becomes shameful as it did at one time for Germans to identify with German nationality, such as after all those images of massacres and concentration camps became unavoidable, then I might regret being an American. It's up to us Americans to decide, should the choice be between fascism and freedom that we choose freedom.