Seriously. This toxic partisan political culture is poisoning civil society.
What the hell is wrong with us?
The left and the right pulling hair and screeching their bumpersticker slogans and broad brush pig ignorant partisan blamegaming? What's wrong with us?
I'm no youngster. I've never seen such a dangerous ambient.
We have someone shooting at one of our few remaining bipartisan non political fun charitable events because he wants to kill a bunch of (insert political party).
The rhetoric flooding the country is poisoning us. And no one wants to take responsibility for stepping up and saying "enough already". For changing it.
Our representatives are colleagues first and foremost. Political opponents second. They recognize it. That violence against one is violence against the others and against our very institutions. Why are we unable to recognize that?
It's been a couple days. Have you come to thee same conclusion I have? It's not going to stop.
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Its not going to stop.
First of all....note: That the same Original Poster, who said the:
toxic partisan political culture is poisoning civil society...
Has spent the rest of the thread, a good part of it anyway...
spewing the very toxic political poison...which she claimed to condemn. So much for her, lets actually address the issues.
There has been this much
Hate in this country only twice. The first time was when John Adams got elected president and he and his Control Freak New Englanders/New Yorkers ran the Sedition Acts through Congress...and promptly started putting people in jail for criticizing the Adams Administration. They put Ben Franklin's Grandson in jail. They put a man in jail for putting a poster on a post that simply said: "Down with Tyrants".
It is one of the reasons Jefferson ran against him and one of the reasons he beat his ass. What the NewEnglanders/NewYorkers then called "Rubes" had the common sense to see that they did not need Control Freaks running Washington.
(And they saw the same thing again in November of 2016)
Thomas Jefferson, picked in 2000 as the 14th most important person on Earth out of the last 1000 years, and
the Most Important American....has been reduced in just 17 years...by the New England, now Coastal Elites*, transfigured into a just another Simon LaGree from Uncle Tom's Cabin, by blind partisans like the Original Poster.
Thomas Jefferson, after beating Adam's Ass, then governed with such mildness, equity and justice....then so did James Madison after him...and then James Monroe after that....that the time became known
as the Era of Good Feeling....which did not end until John Quincy Adams, from Massachusetts, now home to Lying Pocahontas...came to power. It is little known to the Elitists* that this Adams was America's first Socialist President. They all think it was Obama, but Adams was first....because he had the most well developed fear of the Jefferson Ideal of individual merit--the Ideal which has made this the greatest country in the history of the planet.
Adam's actually had little miniature Social Communes set up in the White House...and he carefully follows all the Utopian Society experiments that were going on during his time. They all failed; just like every Socialistic movement has failed--because of human nature--the productive citizen will always eventually get tired of carrying the Porch Sitter's and quit.
Adams didn't know he was a Socialist, because Marx hadn't said then: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. But Adams would have wished he had said that.
The "Rubes" rebelled against this Adams too and defiantly elected Andrew Jackson. Jackson had as many personality disorders as Trump, and he was meaner...he is the only president to come into the White House with a bullet in him, from a duel...the other man died. He was elected Twice, in spite of the hissy fit the NewEnglanders/NewYorkers threw...and he was the only President to successfully kick Walls Street's ass...which today is vilified by Democrats, but which is made up
mostly of Democrats. (Irony/Hypocrisy/Stupidity)
Jackson, born in South Carolina, also put off the Civil War for almost 20 years, because when South Carolina passed the Nullification Acts, and threatened to succeed, he said he would personally come to South Carolina and hang every secessionist....starting with the ring-leader---John C. Calhoun. South Carolina folded.
(As an aside, Sanctuary Cities are passing Nullification Acts today, and Trump has a picture of Andrew Jackson hanging in the Oval Office.)
Strong fair leadership. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Jams Monroe...now, Andrew Jackson.
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The second time this country has been so divided, was in the Latter part of the 1850's and such men as above were not to be found...and disaster came....600,000 Americans died...all of whom loved their country...rather their view of it.
Now we have reached the edge of the cliff again. What next?
I think it depends on the same old thing--human nature...which doesn't change.
Will the Elitists in the Northeast continue their quest for complete control, on the assumption (presumption) of their natural moral & intellectual superiority....on the assumption that any one who disagrees with them are pure simpletons...mere Rubes...who are too foolish and uneducated to have a real voice in government?
We Rubes took a chance on Thomas Jefferson, we took a chance on Andrew Jackson, we took a chance on Ronald Reagan...and now we have had to take a chance on Donald Trump. All for the same reason. We had the common sense to know that our other option was simply unacceptable.
I think the O. P. 's noble sounding opening was just an implicit lecture to us Rubes in the Heartland....just Bullshit...and that her subsequent divisive posts in the rest of the very same thread she so altrustically started...show her for the hypocrite she so obviously is...and also very poorly educated, as are most of today's Elites*.
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* Elites--People with an I.Q. of 115 to 120 who think it is 150 to 155, and so behave as if it was 85 to 90. Indigenous to New England...born with a lust for Control. Currently unsafe...dangerous to themselves & others---driven off the precipice because of a recurring Jefferson/Jackson/Reagan/Trump Derangement Syndrome.
