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What do you consider is the number one reason the United States is so divided?
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Aug 8, 2022 10:47:29   #
Ricktloml
 
currahee506 wrote:
We are divided because that is the nature of Communism. In its many forms, it has taken over our public schools via indoctrinated teachers from the universities and State colleges. When is the last time you debated with a person about "social justice?" Or had a discussion with anyone about the difference between "equal opportunity" and "equal outcome?" The public schools are merely tax-payer expensive "re-education camps."




And the obstacle the Democrat/Communists/RINOs have is; Americans now know what the government/public school system is indoctrinating their children with because of the shut-downs. And many are outraged. I'm sure the Teacher's Union is reassuring their members that these annoying parents can be brought under control...h*ll the Attorneys General will even call them domestic terrorists if they get to be too problematic. Re-education camps hits the nail on the head!

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Aug 8, 2022 12:28:49   #
manning55 Loc: Richmond, Va
 
We need to realize that America has at least six deadly movements that are wrecking us deliberately so that they take over.
1. The Marxists we hate,
2. The Leftists that aren't exactly Marxists, but still foster things like wokeness and PC,
3. The insidious Chinese that have wormed their way deep into our society and threaten us,
4. lslamic Muslims now numbering over 7 million here that plan to take us over for Islam, and Shariah.
5. We still have to contend with Russia and Putin, and his war on the Ukraine.
6. And now we have identified the movement that is using Covid to change us in unpredictable ways, and support euthanasia-=--the so-called Technocrats that have been operating in the nation for years.

If you want one reason and one only, you are missing the boat! We are under massive ideological attacks, plural! I guess that sums it up.

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Aug 8, 2022 13:36:46   #
pegw
 
Alive and watching TV

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Aug 8, 2022 14:05:38   #
dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA
 
pegw wrote:
Alive and watching TV


That explains where you get your crazy ideas. Turn off the boob tube.

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Aug 17, 2022 17:13:52   #
rebelwidacoz Loc: Illinois
 
Elwood wrote:
Quora.com



James Madison

Frankly, because it is too big and culturally diverse to be governed centrally. And contrary to prevailing opinion, there are some very astute thinkers on the left as well as the right who have offered some compelling arguments to that effect.

The constitutional framers were fully aware of the immense cultural, political and economic diversity of the United States when they convened in Philadelphia in May, 1787. Despite several appeals to bind the 13 self-governing states under a national government, the framers settled on a system that Madison characterized as a compound republic: a “republic of republics” in which states retained sovereignty as well as many of the attributes of nationhood while delegating to the general government a handful of powers that were more effectively exercised at a continental level: national defense, foreign policy and a means of raising revenue that only sufficient to pay off the Revolutionary War debt but also to ensure that the general government was effectively equipped to garner sufficient revenue to carry out these tasks.

Some nationalists, notably Hamilton, wanted the general government to be equipped with a veto on state legislature to safeguard its relatively narrow prerogatives, but this was rejected.

States reserved the power to chart their own domestic policies.

Today, the federal government, significantly through passage of the 14th Amendment, has garned significant control over state domestic policy - a measure that many Americans would applaud for the role it has served in securing the descendants of freed slaves many of the common rights of citizenship of which their forebears were deprived in the years following emancipation.

Even so, the growth of federal power at the expense of the states has created plenty of mischief and ill feeling along both sides of the blue/red divide.

In what can be regarded as an unorthodox but courageous column, Michael Malice stressed in The Observer some 6 years ago that the United States has functioned as a united country only at a few times in history: in the “Era of Good Feeling” following the collapse of the Hamiltonian Federalist party, during the FDR presidency as the nation battled its way through a global depression and another world war and, more recently, after the Iraqi invasion and the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.

Aside from that, the term “the United States” has served to obfuscate a number of historical complexities. Malice argues that this includes an especially inconvenient and painful truth: that the United States has never possessed a common culture and never will, despite the efforts of Abraham Lincoln and a host of public intellectuals and academics to invent one.

Yet, there other painful realities that should be addressed and likely will at some point as the divisions are felt more acutely: namely, the fact that the country possesses a population now exceeding 300-million, rendering effective central governance on a constitutional, democractic basis increasingly impractical.

Years ago, in fact, the progressive decentrist Gar Alperovitz has raised one of the great ironies bound up in James Madison's legacy: that he favored big national polities, albeit only up to their optimal levels off efficiency. Beyond that point, he stressed in a letter to his mentor, Thomas Jefferson, that a sprawling nation-state supplies elites at the center to exploit division and undermine democratic government.

We arguably passed that inflection point decades ago. Indeed in the early 1990's a revered nonagenarian diplomat, George F. Kennan, argued in his memoirs that the country would be far better off divided into ten or so “constituent republics,” vested with virtually all the powers of domestic governance, while the general government is restricted only to those powers assigned to it by the framers.

Whether the country ever manages to work out a means whereby effective governance is restored in the form of viable federalism and genuine democratic policy-making remains an open question.

If it is not resolved, there is the increasingly likelihood, as Alperovitz stesses, that large states such as California and even regions will begin unilaterally functioning more or less as de facto nation-states. And if this occurs, we may face an unraveling effect not all that far removed from the late Soviet Union.
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Laterally, the Mason Dixon line ,and vertically, the Prime meridian. If you thought or meant politically divided, well of course the Mason Dixon line would be the principle degree of separation .

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Nov 27, 2022 09:31:45   #
goch1
 
fullspinzoo wrote:
Oh, like the J6 committee??


Oh, yeah - the J6 Committee, made up of Trump haters, including either no Republicans or maybe just one or 2 RINOS. Their ONLY goal seemed to be to examine every claim that Trump or the REpublican party were the developers of an "INSURRECTION" with no proof at all and no equality of political stances to get to the truth. BTW, Trump did ask for National Guard protection, which was denied. I'm quite ashamed of the Democrat Party that I had joined to try and bring some morality into consideration back in the '90's.

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Nov 27, 2022 16:19:39   #
Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio
 
Blade_Runner wrote:
Will you just shut up.

Article V is the provision in the Constitution of the UNITED STATES for adding amendments designed to improve our constitutional principles so they benefit ALL American citizens.

This has nothing to do with Trump or anything he could do.

But, you just will not let it go, will you? If you couldn't make everything about Trump, you'd have diddley squat to talk about.

So, here is a nice little fact you can put in your pipe and smoke:

Make America Great Again IS NOT a campaign slogan, it's a War Cry.
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3rd time is the charm .
Nixon used it .
Reagan used it .

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Nov 28, 2022 02:42:34   #
fullspinzoo
 
Milosia2 wrote:
3rd time is the charm .
Nixon used it .
Reagan used it .


#STFU

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Nov 30, 2022 15:13:00   #
Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio
 
manning55 wrote:
We need to realize that America has at least six deadly movements that are wrecking us deliberately so that they take over.
1. The Marxists we hate,
2. The Leftists that aren't exactly Marxists, but still foster things like wokeness and PC,
3. The insidious Chinese that have wormed their way deep into our society and threaten us,
4. lslamic Muslims now numbering over 7 million here that plan to take us over for Islam, and Shariah.
5. We still have to contend with Russia and Putin, and his war on the Ukraine.
6. And now we have identified the movement that is using Covid to change us in unpredictable ways, and support euthanasia-=--the so-called Technocrats that have been operating in the nation for years.

If you want one reason and one only, you are missing the boat! We are under massive ideological attacks, plural! I guess that sums it up.
We need to realize that America has at least six d... (show quote)



Before you know it the Chinese will have Chinese Restaurants on every corner.

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Nov 30, 2022 15:47:10   #
Big Kahuna
 
Milosia2 wrote:
Before you know it the Chinese will have Chinese Restaurants on every corner.


We already had that under Bathhhouse Barry ovommiit's reign.

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Nov 30, 2022 18:52:03   #
dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA
 
Milosia2 wrote:
Before you know it the Chinese will have Chinese Restaurants on every corner.


They'll all go in where Starbuck's used to be.

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Nov 30, 2022 19:51:35   #
Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio
 
padremike wrote:
Joe Biden is far worse than Judas. Judas' sin was Pride. Judas thought his betrayal, his sin, was so great that even Christ was incapable of forgiving him. Biden's sins are worse because his support of issues such as abortion & LGBTQ says his word is greater than Christ's. Furthermore every Catholic clergyman that allows him to receive the Eucharist is no pastor because to receive the Eucharist unworthily contributes to his damnation, not his salvation.


Oh stfu !!

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Nov 30, 2022 20:22:03   #
padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al
 
Milosia2 wrote:
Oh stfu !!


No.

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Nov 30, 2022 20:23:21   #
Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio
 
padremike wrote:
No.


Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes .
Oh and The Koch Brothers and Family.
Oh and Roger Stone .
And Fsux Nouse.
OAN
Russian influence.
Ronald Reagan declared the government was the enemy .
Fired all the traffic controllers.
Continued to kill off unions.

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Nov 30, 2022 20:31:01   #
Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio
 
Big Kahuna wrote:
Aren't Slo Joe, pigloosli, clinton and schumer all members of Satan's Cult?


Still speaking like a 10 year old.

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