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The reason that we are actually more divided is because the leftist wing, instead of being annoying but usually peaceful hippies, are dangerous Antifa terrorists, socialists who admire the Soviet Union, anti-American ethnic mafias loyal to their race rather than America or its laws, and Muslim thugs who openly talk about Jews hypnotizing the world out of one side of their mouth while crying racism out of the other.
^^^Rubbish! Hateful, divisive, ugly and preposterous rhetoric! Gee, I wonder where this garbage originates and why?
Has anyone else noticed how often the group who embraces Russian tactics and tyrannical leaders, is lately trying to pretend it is the Democrats who possess the tendency to annihilate our way of life, government and our Constitution? You know, as opposed to the Party of Trump and the GOP who no longer even try to conceal their disdain for, we the people?
P.S. There is no Soviet Union.
Last edited by corpgypsy; 07-11-2019 at 05:08 AM..
This place has been notoriously and riotously divided in "once upon a time". The gulf wars, the vietnam war, the fight for civil rights, the fight for women's rights, the years leading up to and during and after the civil war and the same for the war for independence. Very loudly divided here during those times. The people experiencing those events, for them it was all up close and personal with a strong sense of urgency. It seems like in 2019 it's the same divisions around the basically pretty-much-the-same underlying human issues as it was before.
When I can, I try to at least add a comment or two every day to any thread I start, mostly because threads I start tend to be about topics that interest me most, so I don't want them to die, but today I spent too much time in another thread and find myself out of time for much else. Maybe tomorrow!
Until then, is that one question, asking what are our differences, a serious one?
I am old enough to remember
The fight was about the draft
And a 10 year war
without the draft a 20 year war is no problem
Americans did not give a fig about foreign people don’t now either
Sellout artists in Congress
Just like Vietnam back then just like now
I think most Americans simply refuse to take the bait. We filter out much of the noise that comes from the radical left and radical right and we just go on living our lives. I vote less divided.
I don't think we're more divided, at least not average people. It's just that those with the most extreme veiwpoints end up having the loudest voices in today's outrage culture, clickbait news society. There's more incentive to write or share crazy statements about concentration camps made by AOC than realistic and rationale statements about health care made by John Delaney.
I'm conservative on almost every issue and I still agree with my democrat friends and family on lots of things that are more important than, climate change, LGBT rights, tax cuts, etc.
Yes, in the real world it’s pretty civil if you stay away from the Proud Boys and Antifa get togethers.
I read this article this morning and it made me think maybe we're not as divided today as we were not too long ago...
Reminding us how deeply divided the country was in 1969, Rundle recounts being carried into an ambulance when, “Someone heard a bystander say, ‘I hope you die, you f**king hippie.’” Kahler, who like Rundle spent months in the hospital fighting for his life, remembers opening a greeting card that read, “Dear Communist, hippie, radical, I hope by the time you read this you are dead.”
Warning: a bit of a difficult read. Hard to believe in many ways...
I was 12 in 1969; just the age that I started reading newspapers religiously. The news was a daily drumbeat of different kinds of generational and other violence. Kent State brought a stark closure to this era. There is no question that this era was far more divisive than the era of TDS.
^^^Rubbish! Hateful, divisive, ugly and preposterous rhetoric! Gee, I wonder where this garbage originates and why?
Has anyone else noticed how often the group who embraces Russian tactics and tyrannical leaders, is lately trying to pretend it is the Democrats who possess the tendency to annihilate our way of life, government and our Constitution? You know, as opposed to the Party of Trump and the GOP who no longer even try to conceal their disdain for, we the people?
I think most Americans simply refuse to take the bait. We filter out much of the noise that comes from the radical left and radical right and we just go on living our lives. I vote less divided.
When you take just one "simple" issue like abortion and follow the political line that follows either Trump/GOP vs the Democrats to Supreme Court Judge appointments that ultimately determine the fate of that issue for all Americans, how one can "vote less divided" I'm not sure. And that's just ONE "simple" issue...
Is what Illhan Omar said about AIPAC wrong though?
Just do your research...
What has she said that is not bigoted and anti-American, much less anti-Jewish?
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