[American Thinker] Civil wars are horrendous and bloody affairs. That's why we should avoid them. They happen when two sides cannot settle on who runs the country. When they can't reconcile the matter through elections, the country falls apart. When one side does not accept the election results, we have a countdown to a civil war.
This is the thesis put forth by journalist Daniel Greenfield. It rings true on many levels.
Does the fact that Democrats are rejecting a duly elected Republican president really mean they don't accept the results of any election they don't win? If so, we may be already nearing America's Second Civil War.
It is no secret that Democrats and Republicans are more ideologically divided than in recent years. Parts of the country detest the other parts. Coastal elites dislike flyover country. The blue states despise the red states, and vice versa.
We may now be near a point comparable to 1860. Modern Democrats hate President Trump as much as the Democrats of old hated President Lincoln. Democrats repudiated Lincoln for opposing slavery, and modern Democratic leaders are repudiating Lincoln's belief that the government is of the people, for the people, and by the people. Then as now, Democrats are on the wrong side of history.
The average conservative and the average liberal disagree on the vast majority of the issues, and in the few cases where they can agree, each won't support the other out of sheer tribalism for his side. Since Democrats can't win the argument with reason and facts, they try to intimidate us into silence. While Trump is their focus, we should know that the loathing is really against normal everyday Americans.
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No. life is too good for it to happen. most people could care less. as long as theres plenty of food, leisure time, and spare cash, nobody will lift a finger to help politicians with their BS games
Posted by: Yosemite Sam ||
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OTH__ forever is a long time to keep your temper....
Posted by: Clolunter Lover of the Swedes6280 ||
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As that sort of thing gets closer a lot of folks will start to pay actual attention to the news and may find they have been lied to constantly by the media an political class. Civil war aborted at the ballot box with both parties losing vast numbers. Who gets the votes I don't know at this point.
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forever is a long time to keep your temper.... Once a person has mastered the vice of procrastination, they can solve their anger issues by a careful sequencing of these vices. Just procrastinate your anger indefinitely.
[AmericanThinker] It's not exactly hamburgergate, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not coping very well with the pressures of being a media sensation. As a young woman who likes sharing her wisdom with hordes of admiring skulls full of mush, she might have realized that she would be held to account whenever she fails to live up to her proscriptions for the lesser mortals to live by.
Telling the masses they "shouldn't be eating a hamburger for breakfast, lunch, and dinner" was a serious mistake for multiple reasons, not least of which is that denying favorite foods to people is not a recipe for popularity. But presuming to grab the moral high ground also imposes a standard that just might be hard to meet 100% of the time. It was an open invitation to mockery the first time she was seen in proximity to the delicious ground meat sandwich.
Tuesday night, she was dining out with her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, who, in many ways, is the brains behind her rise from cocktail waitress to congressman, and he was eating a nice thick burger, heedless of the cow farts that lay behind its availability. She was not amused, and when the forbidden fartogenic food was featured in mocking tweets, she took to Twitter to claim victimization by a stalker. And the scary thing about AOC, and her entire generation, is that they see this as a valid argument
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Be careful. She will put you on her list! Then when the fascist left take over the list will be dusted off and you will get sent to an education camp...
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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She’s got them on the list
She’s got them on the list
And they’ll none of them be missed
They’ll. None. Of. Them. Be. Missed.
/channeling Gilbert and Sullivan
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
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Well, it's easy. When they say we shouldn't eat hamburgers, they mean it. They obviously don't include themselves. I mean, duh. That part goes without saying.
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Saikat Chakrabarti eating a cow burger. No sacrilege there. He was eating the reincarnated bodies of our ancestors -- not his own. :)
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Cue farting, and Bart shouting "Wow!
A Hindoo dude having a cow,
For once, as in chowing
And not as in plowing."
Moo-mooing the flak-machers... pow!
[American Thinker] In 2016 I discovered and wrote about Dr. Frank Schnell, career government employee toxicologist, when he asserted that formaldehyde was not a cancer-causing agent - and that the EPA had lied about it.
I saw a gem, a Ph.D. toxicologist retired from the Communicable Disease Center ‐ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) after 20 years of professional work there, ready to reveal government scientific misconduct on matters of designating toxins and carcinogens. On the formaldehyde issues, Schnell displayed his expertise and his knowledge of EPA misconduct as a view from the belly of the beast. He outlined the science misconduct directed by the EPA and its agency allies, supported by fanatic environmentalists inside and outside the government.
Read this wonderful man's explanation in multiple articles that I admire and applaud from his ACSH archive, but also look at his archive at Science 2.0. For those who are interested in the politics, he is lucid; for those who are interested in getting into the scientific weeds, he is plenty smart and easy to understand.
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government scientific misconduct on matters of designating toxins and carcinogens Before the government ever got involved, consider the controversies engaged in by the scientists themselves: nothing but disagreements and scandals. Consider how reports on the dangers and benefits of coffee swing back & forth every few months or so. Consider what happened to Mme. Curie. Consider what happened to Dr. Karen E. Wetterhahn of Dartmouth, a specialist who died in 1997 of toxic metal exposure. She was a world renowned researcher in -- toxic metal exposure. Various governmental agencies only got involved in the Wetterhahn case after it was far too late. Dartmouth had to pay penalties for negligence that the "top men" -- and women -- of the time did not even know existed!
There is far more to this issue that political hijacks.
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