We've moved now into the realm of elected officials publicly and literally directing and inciting their followers and constituents to physically harass ideological opponents in their everyday lives. Conservative politicians, or at least those considered to be conservative, and their constituents, are apparently not supposed to show their faces in restaurants, gas stations, grocery stores, or generally in public, anymore.
I believe it was after the Presidential campaigns, but perhaps right before, that the old socialist Bernie Sanders said that his followers needed to go out into the public sphere and "get into trouble". Of course now we have crazy Maxine Waters calling for her followers to actually physically harass and intimidate Trump administration officials and their supporters in public, at "gasoline stations", restaurants, etc.
I wonder if she wants us to sit at the back of the bus.
People have asked when the leftists are just going to start trying to assassinate officials they don't like, or people who they find to be counter to their efforts. Steve Scalise could probably answer that question. Seth Rich, however, can not.
We are moving closer and closer to a failure of civility, at least varying levels of it in the different regions of the US. At some point we have to realize that there are at least two major factions in the US who no longer wish to live under a governmental system that resembles ANYTHING like the system that the other faction wishes to live under.
The American Civil War was not about slavery. It was about two major sides disagreeing on what type of government to live under. The North sided with the centralized federal system over the state governments, while the South wished to live under a continued confederation of free and independent states who agreed to unite under certain circumstances. It was all about federal power versus states' rights.
I think the Southern philosophy of free and independent states is being proven correct. We can not take 330,000,000 people, force them to accept abstract concepts like diversity, erode their national American identity, intentionally degrade Western style culture, and then expect all of them to live peacefully and happily under ONE single leader, ONE single flag, ONE single system, ONE set of laws.
"But China does it".
China is nearly 100% Chinese and nearly 0% anything else. They have a DISTINCTLY Chinese culture and way of life.
"India does it".
India has a DISTINCTLY Indian culture, language, national identity.
Next most populous country in the world is the US, and here we are barely allowed to acknowledge that there is such a thing as "American culture" or anything resembling a national identity, lest you wear the brand of a racist or bigot, or whatever it is this week.
There must be an amicable divorce in order to preserve the peace. I don't know what lines need to be drawn and where they need to be, but it's about that time...
I have had this debate with people before. But India does it! India is a nation with cast systems and holds certain sects of society in a feudal system. It also deals with it political disagreements with AK 47s. But china does it. China is a country where nobody argues with the state unless they want to be imprison. China is a country that oppresses the tibetan people and murders students who protest.
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