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2017-08-06 Home Front: Politix
Roger Simon: Is America on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown or Civil War?
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Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-06 07:40|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 ....what we are looking at is a sclerotic system (becoming rigid and unresponsive) losing the ability to adapt)that has become increasingly built on self-preservation and not on the people's will, in fact is largely disinterested in and disconnected from that will.

Simon describes the government of the past 50 years, possibly longer. The difference now is, they've been threatened.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-06 08:00||   2017-08-06 08:00|| Front Page Top

#2 IMHO, both. You listen to the left and it sounds like a nervous breakdown. You listen to the right and it sounds like civil war. Presently, we are somewhere in between. That could change at any time.
Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-06 10:43||   2017-08-06 10:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Air assets are very critical. Persistent aerial surveillance will make organizing a civil uprising quite difficult.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-06 11:17||   2017-08-06 11:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Embrace the power of 'and'
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-06 11:22||   2017-08-06 11:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes it is. All it needs is a small push to go in either direction. Currently it is on the path to a full nervous breakdown on the left. A coup or an attempt to seize power will be met with violence from the right and could lead to civil war.

We are really on the edge of something and I don't think it is good.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-08-06 11:25||   2017-08-06 11:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Kurt Schlicter may have had it right a few days ago when (speaking of the left's coup attempts) he said "Trump isn't our last chance, he's yours."
Posted by Speatch Elmineng2905 2017-08-06 13:54||   2017-08-06 13:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Our political leaders are acting in the same manner as the British parliament did in the 1700's. The political leaders today, like the British parliament are not taking our wishes into account, they feel they know better and we should just accept their desires. We elected a leader and they refuse to let him represent us. They pass bogus rules and investigate him in an effort to find a reason to remove him. The adage from the two parties is, "How dare the people vote someone that is not an elite member of our group". They, both sides are not representing us, they are on the edge of tyranny. Both sides are supporting the investigation of Russia and "Trump". They are not investigating the Russian influence, or they would be investigating the Dems and Fusion GPS as well. This is nothing more that a Coup by congress to remove the leader we elected to represent us. I'm no extremist, I swore an oath. It has no expiration date. Remember, it does not take the full society, only a few percent need to come together, to be pissed off enough to take action. They are not the fringe, Deplorable's gone wild, they are patriots, the 3% that have, and will, always defended this nation....
Posted by 49 Pan 2017-08-06 17:25||   2017-08-06 17:25|| Front Page Top

#8 1700? Slightly before this time, Oliver Cromwell was Lord Protector of England, Ireland and Scotland. He and his Roundheads laid waste to Scotland and Ireland and killed many of the citizens of these two countries--it has been described as a "near genocide." He tossed out the Rump Parliament of England. He had the King executed. In other words, he drained the swamp of his day.
Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-06 20:31||   2017-08-06 20:31|| Front Page Top

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