"In late April, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tulchin Research conducted a poll of 1,500 Americans to examine the extent to which the extremist beliefs and narratives that mobilize the hard right have been absorbed by the wider American public.
...
The mood, overall, is pessimistic: 44% of Americans agree that the “U.S. seems headed toward a civil war in the near future,” including 53% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats."
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideas
"In late April, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tulchin Research conducted a poll of 1,500 Americans to examine the extent to which the extremist beliefs and narratives that mobilize the hard right have been absorbed by the wider American public.
...
The mood, overall, is pessimistic: 44% of Americans agree that the “U.S. seems headed toward a civil war in the near future,” including 53% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats."
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideas
On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 8:56:44 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
"In late April, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tulchin Research conducted a poll of 1,500 Americans to examine the extent to which the extremist beliefs and narratives that mobilize the hard right have been absorbed by the wider American public.
...
The mood, overall, is pessimistic: 44% of Americans agree that the “U.S. seems headed toward a civil war in the near future,” including 53% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats."
war. Stocks of rifles and guns brought to the store for retail sales were sold out in some afternoons.https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideasThe right side is getting more and more towards extreme. Just look at the number of guns sold out during Trump's term was absolutely amazing. Trump's speeches ad words drove white people to even buy more stocks of rifles to keep as stockpile for civil
In some stores, long queues were formed to buy were poor people. Beggars and loafers living under the bridge for food stamps also joined the queue to buy their guns, too. When people living in that cardboard and bridge conditions also bought them, itgoes to show that they can sense the blood of civil war has come and will know the day of civil war will soon be ready for them, too.
On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 8:38:46 PM UTC-4, stoney wrote:public.
On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 8:56:44 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
"In late April, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tulchin Research conducted a poll of 1,500 Americans to examine the extent to which the extremist beliefs and narratives that mobilize the hard right have been absorbed by the wider American
...
The mood, overall, is pessimistic: 44% of Americans agree that the “U.S. seems headed toward a civil war in the near future,” including 53% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats."
civil war. Stocks of rifles and guns brought to the store for retail sales were sold out in some afternoons.https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideasThe right side is getting more and more towards extreme. Just look at the number of guns sold out during Trump's term was absolutely amazing. Trump's speeches ad words drove white people to even buy more stocks of rifles to keep as stockpile for
goes to show that they can sense the blood of civil war has come and will know the day of civil war will soon be ready for them, too.In some stores, long queues were formed to buy were poor people. Beggars and loafers living under the bridge for food stamps also joined the queue to buy their guns, too. When people living in that cardboard and bridge conditions also bought them, it
Your view is close to Version 2 or stage 2 of America's Second Civil War
"In an ad released last year, Blake Masters, a leading candidate in Arizona’s Republican Senate primary,
cradles a semiautomatic weapon. “This is a short-barreled rifle,” he said, ominous music playing in the
background. “It wasn’t designed for hunting. This is designed to kill people.”
For Masters, this isn’t an argument against allowing such guns to proliferate. Rather, it’s an acknowledgment
of why access to these weapons is, for the right, a matter of existential importance. “The Second Amendment
is not about duck hunting,” said Masters. “It’s about protecting your family and your country. What’s the first
thing the Taliban did when Joe Biden handed them Afghanistan? They took away people’s guns.” Guns, in this
worldview, are a guarantor against government overreach. And government overreach includes attempts to
regulate guns.
These days, it’s barely remarkable when Republicans issue what sound like threats against those who’d dare
curtail their private arsenals.
...
Two years ago, David French, an anti-Trump conservative, published a book, “Divided We Fall,” warning of the
possible crackup of the United States. It included two chapters imagining scenarios for how the dissolution of
the country might happen. One involved a mass shooting at a school in California, to which the state’s people
reacted “with white-hot rage.” French envisioned furious state politicians defying the Second Amendment,
leading to a nullification crisis and blue-state secession.
He meant it as a cautionary tale, but rereading the chapter after Uvalde, it feels less bleak than our reality. In
French’s scenario, atrocity has the effect of energizing people rather than immobilizing them. They are determined
to fight, not resigned to defeat. They have audacity and hope.
The real nightmare is not that the repetition of nihilist terrorism brings American politics to an inflection point,
but that it doesn’t. The nightmare is that we simply stumble on, helpless as things keep getting worse."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/uvalde-shooting.html?searchResultPosition=2
On Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 11:45:31 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:public.
On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 8:38:46 PM UTC-4, stoney wrote:
On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 8:56:44 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
"In late April, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tulchin Research conducted a poll of 1,500 Americans to examine the extent to which the extremist beliefs and narratives that mobilize the hard right have been absorbed by the wider American
...
The mood, overall, is pessimistic: 44% of Americans agree that the “U.S. seems headed toward a civil war in the near future,” including 53% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats."
civil war. Stocks of rifles and guns brought to the store for retail sales were sold out in some afternoons.https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideasThe right side is getting more and more towards extreme. Just look at the number of guns sold out during Trump's term was absolutely amazing. Trump's speeches ad words drove white people to even buy more stocks of rifles to keep as stockpile for
it goes to show that they can sense the blood of civil war has come and will know the day of civil war will soon be ready for them, too.In some stores, long queues were formed to buy were poor people. Beggars and loafers living under the bridge for food stamps also joined the queue to buy their guns, too. When people living in that cardboard and bridge conditions also bought them,
as federal government to represent them anymore and not have the magnitude to the world too.Your view is close to Version 2 or stage 2 of America's Second Civil War
"In an ad released last year, Blake Masters, a leading candidate in Arizona’s Republican Senate primary,
cradles a semiautomatic weapon. “This is a short-barreled rifle,” he said, ominous music playing in the
background. “It wasn’t designed for hunting. This is designed to kill people.”
For Masters, this isn’t an argument against allowing such guns to proliferate. Rather, it’s an acknowledgment
of why access to these weapons is, for the right, a matter of existential importance. “The Second Amendment
is not about duck hunting,” said Masters. “It’s about protecting your family and your country. What’s the first
thing the Taliban did when Joe Biden handed them Afghanistan? They took away people’s guns.” Guns, in this
worldview, are a guarantor against government overreach. And government overreach includes attempts to
regulate guns.
These days, it’s barely remarkable when Republicans issue what sound like threats against those who’d dare
curtail their private arsenals.
...
Two years ago, David French, an anti-Trump conservative, published a book, “Divided We Fall,” warning of the
possible crackup of the United States. It included two chapters imagining scenarios for how the dissolution of
the country might happen. One involved a mass shooting at a school in California, to which the state’s people
reacted “with white-hot rage.” French envisioned furious state politicians defying the Second Amendment,
leading to a nullification crisis and blue-state secession.
He meant it as a cautionary tale, but rereading the chapter after Uvalde, it feels less bleak than our reality. In
French’s scenario, atrocity has the effect of energizing people rather than immobilizing them. They are determined
to fight, not resigned to defeat. They have audacity and hope.
The real nightmare is not that the repetition of nihilist terrorism brings American politics to an inflection point,
but that it doesn’t. The nightmare is that we simply stumble on, helpless as things keep getting worse."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/uvalde-shooting.html?searchResultPosition=2Maybe (do you think) "US should be divided into divided states (not united states) which is better for the world for themselves and best of all, for the world, too? This means if the US is broken up into independent republics, the US will not be there
On Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 9:04:23 PM UTC-4, stoney wrote:public.
On Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 11:45:31 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 8:38:46 PM UTC-4, stoney wrote:
On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 8:56:44 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
"In late April, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tulchin Research conducted a poll of 1,500 Americans to examine the extent to which the extremist beliefs and narratives that mobilize the hard right have been absorbed by the wider American
...
The mood, overall, is pessimistic: 44% of Americans agree that the “U.S. seems headed toward a civil war in the near future,” including 53% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats."
civil war. Stocks of rifles and guns brought to the store for retail sales were sold out in some afternoons.https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideasThe right side is getting more and more towards extreme. Just look at the number of guns sold out during Trump's term was absolutely amazing. Trump's speeches ad words drove white people to even buy more stocks of rifles to keep as stockpile for
it goes to show that they can sense the blood of civil war has come and will know the day of civil war will soon be ready for them, too.In some stores, long queues were formed to buy were poor people. Beggars and loafers living under the bridge for food stamps also joined the queue to buy their guns, too. When people living in that cardboard and bridge conditions also bought them,
there as federal government to represent them anymore and not have the magnitude to the world too.Your view is close to Version 2 or stage 2 of America's Second Civil War
"In an ad released last year, Blake Masters, a leading candidate in Arizona’s Republican Senate primary,
cradles a semiautomatic weapon. “This is a short-barreled rifle,” he said, ominous music playing in the
background. “It wasn’t designed for hunting. This is designed to kill people.”
For Masters, this isn’t an argument against allowing such guns to proliferate. Rather, it’s an acknowledgment
of why access to these weapons is, for the right, a matter of existential importance. “The Second Amendment
is not about duck hunting,” said Masters. “It’s about protecting your family and your country. What’s the first
thing the Taliban did when Joe Biden handed them Afghanistan? They took away people’s guns.” Guns, in this
worldview, are a guarantor against government overreach. And government overreach includes attempts to
regulate guns.
These days, it’s barely remarkable when Republicans issue what sound like threats against those who’d dare
curtail their private arsenals.
...
Two years ago, David French, an anti-Trump conservative, published a book, “Divided We Fall,” warning of the
possible crackup of the United States. It included two chapters imagining scenarios for how the dissolution of
the country might happen. One involved a mass shooting at a school in California, to which the state’s people
reacted “with white-hot rage.” French envisioned furious state politicians defying the Second Amendment,
leading to a nullification crisis and blue-state secession.
He meant it as a cautionary tale, but rereading the chapter after Uvalde, it feels less bleak than our reality. In
French’s scenario, atrocity has the effect of energizing people rather than immobilizing them. They are determined
to fight, not resigned to defeat. They have audacity and hope.
The real nightmare is not that the repetition of nihilist terrorism brings American politics to an inflection point,
but that it doesn’t. The nightmare is that we simply stumble on, helpless as things keep getting worse."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/uvalde-shooting.html?searchResultPosition=2Maybe (do you think) "US should be divided into divided states (not united states) which is better for the world for themselves and best of all, for the world, too? This means if the US is broken up into independent republics, the US will not be
The US constitution was written to solve three intertwined problems: slavery, inequality, and power for the short term.
At present, slavery has morphed into systemic discrimination, inequality among people and among different states
are getting worse. The federal government and state governments are supposed to balance each other. But at present,
red states are not in general not happy with federal power.
Above all, Western democracy as practiced in the US does not work. Dysfunctional democracy allows fantasy to become
mainstream and consequently deepening polarization. The following article tells of the story how Koch brothers' 1980
fantasy backed by money has shifted the Overton Window. https://newrepublic.com/article/154849/david-koch-1980-fantasy
US breaking apart is a real threat, dangerous to US and to the world. The US system needs deep reform ASAP.
On Monday, June 13, 2022 at 2:39:49 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:public.
On Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 9:04:23 PM UTC-4, stoney wrote:
On Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 11:45:31 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 8:38:46 PM UTC-4, stoney wrote:
On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 8:56:44 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
"In late April, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tulchin Research conducted a poll of 1,500 Americans to examine the extent to which the extremist beliefs and narratives that mobilize the hard right have been absorbed by the wider American
...
The mood, overall, is pessimistic: 44% of Americans agree that the “U.S. seems headed toward a civil war in the near future,” including 53% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats."
for civil war. Stocks of rifles and guns brought to the store for retail sales were sold out in some afternoons.https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideasThe right side is getting more and more towards extreme. Just look at the number of guns sold out during Trump's term was absolutely amazing. Trump's speeches ad words drove white people to even buy more stocks of rifles to keep as stockpile
them, it goes to show that they can sense the blood of civil war has come and will know the day of civil war will soon be ready for them, too.In some stores, long queues were formed to buy were poor people. Beggars and loafers living under the bridge for food stamps also joined the queue to buy their guns, too. When people living in that cardboard and bridge conditions also bought
there as federal government to represent them anymore and not have the magnitude to the world too.Your view is close to Version 2 or stage 2 of America's Second Civil War
"In an ad released last year, Blake Masters, a leading candidate in Arizona’s Republican Senate primary,
cradles a semiautomatic weapon. “This is a short-barreled rifle,” he said, ominous music playing in the
background. “It wasn’t designed for hunting. This is designed to kill people.”
For Masters, this isn’t an argument against allowing such guns to proliferate. Rather, it’s an acknowledgment
of why access to these weapons is, for the right, a matter of existential importance. “The Second Amendment
is not about duck hunting,” said Masters. “It’s about protecting your family and your country. What’s the first
thing the Taliban did when Joe Biden handed them Afghanistan? They took away people’s guns.” Guns, in this
worldview, are a guarantor against government overreach. And government overreach includes attempts to
regulate guns.
These days, it’s barely remarkable when Republicans issue what sound like threats against those who’d dare
curtail their private arsenals.
...
Two years ago, David French, an anti-Trump conservative, published a book, “Divided We Fall,” warning of the
possible crackup of the United States. It included two chapters imagining scenarios for how the dissolution of
the country might happen. One involved a mass shooting at a school in California, to which the state’s people
reacted “with white-hot rage.” French envisioned furious state politicians defying the Second Amendment,
leading to a nullification crisis and blue-state secession.
He meant it as a cautionary tale, but rereading the chapter after Uvalde, it feels less bleak than our reality. In
French’s scenario, atrocity has the effect of energizing people rather than immobilizing them. They are determined
to fight, not resigned to defeat. They have audacity and hope.
The real nightmare is not that the repetition of nihilist terrorism brings American politics to an inflection point,
but that it doesn’t. The nightmare is that we simply stumble on, helpless as things keep getting worse."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/uvalde-shooting.html?searchResultPosition=2Maybe (do you think) "US should be divided into divided states (not united states) which is better for the world for themselves and best of all, for the world, too? This means if the US is broken up into independent republics, the US will not be
The US constitution was written to solve three intertwined problems: slavery, inequality, and power for the short term.
At present, slavery has morphed into systemic discrimination, inequality among people and among different states
are getting worse. The federal government and state governments are supposed to balance each other. But at present,
red states are not in general not happy with federal power.
Above all, Western democracy as practiced in the US does not work. Dysfunctional democracy allows fantasy to become
mainstream and consequently deepening polarization. The following article tells of the story how Koch brothers' 1980
fantasy backed by money has shifted the Overton Window. https://newrepublic.com/article/154849/david-koch-1980-fantasy
US breaking apart is a real threat, dangerous to US and to the world. The US system needs deep reform ASAP.Reform is not possible at all because the system is not changeable at all. If reform is agreed to be resolved by the both parties, then there is hope. If there is hope, then they should initiate reform negotiation.
On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 8:38:46 PM UTC-4, stoney wrote:public.
On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 8:56:44 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
"In late April, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tulchin Research conducted a poll of 1,500 Americans to examine the extent to which the extremist beliefs and narratives that mobilize the hard right have been absorbed by the wider American
...
The mood, overall, is pessimistic: 44% of Americans agree that the “U.S. seems headed toward a civil war in the near future,” including 53% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats."
civil war. Stocks of rifles and guns brought to the store for retail sales were sold out in some afternoons.https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideasThe right side is getting more and more towards extreme. Just look at the number of guns sold out during Trump's term was absolutely amazing. Trump's speeches ad words drove white people to even buy more stocks of rifles to keep as stockpile for
goes to show that they can sense the blood of civil war has come and will know the day of civil war will soon be ready for them, too.In some stores, long queues were formed to buy were poor people. Beggars and loafers living under the bridge for food stamps also joined the queue to buy their guns, too. When people living in that cardboard and bridge conditions also bought them, it
Your view is close to Version 2 or stage 2 of America's Second Civil War
"In an ad released last year, Blake Masters, a leading candidate in Arizona’s Republican Senate primary,
cradles a semiautomatic weapon. “This is a short-barreled rifle,” he said, ominous music playing in the
background. “It wasn’t designed for hunting. This is designed to kill people.”
For Masters, this isn’t an argument against allowing such guns to proliferate. Rather, it’s an acknowledgment
of why access to these weapons is, for the right, a matter of existential importance. “The Second Amendment
is not about duck hunting,” said Masters. “It’s about protecting your family and your country. What’s the first
thing the Taliban did when Joe Biden handed them Afghanistan? They took away people’s guns.” Guns, in this
worldview, are a guarantor against government overreach. And government overreach includes attempts to
regulate guns.
These days, it’s barely remarkable when Republicans issue what sound like threats against those who’d dare
curtail their private arsenals.
...
Two years ago, David French, an anti-Trump conservative, published a book, “Divided We Fall,” warning of the
possible crackup of the United States. It included two chapters imagining scenarios for how the dissolution of
the country might happen. One involved a mass shooting at a school in California, to which the state’s people
reacted “with white-hot rage.” French envisioned furious state politicians defying the Second Amendment,
leading to a nullification crisis and blue-state secession.
He meant it as a cautionary tale, but rereading the chapter after Uvalde, it feels less bleak than our reality. In
French’s scenario, atrocity has the effect of energizing people rather than immobilizing them. They are determined
to fight, not resigned to defeat. They have audacity and hope.
The real nightmare is not that the repetition of nihilist terrorism brings American politics to an inflection point,
but that it doesn’t. The nightmare is that we simply stumble on, helpless as things keep getting worse."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/uvalde-shooting.html?searchResultPosition=2
On Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 9:04:23 PM UTC-4, stoney wrote:public.
On Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 11:45:31 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 8:38:46 PM UTC-4, stoney wrote:
On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 8:56:44 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
"In late April, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tulchin Research conducted a poll of 1,500 Americans to examine the extent to which the extremist beliefs and narratives that mobilize the hard right have been absorbed by the wider American
...
The mood, overall, is pessimistic: 44% of Americans agree that the “U.S. seems headed toward a civil war in the near future,” including 53% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats."
civil war. Stocks of rifles and guns brought to the store for retail sales were sold out in some afternoons.https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideasThe right side is getting more and more towards extreme. Just look at the number of guns sold out during Trump's term was absolutely amazing. Trump's speeches ad words drove white people to even buy more stocks of rifles to keep as stockpile for
it goes to show that they can sense the blood of civil war has come and will know the day of civil war will soon be ready for them, too.In some stores, long queues were formed to buy were poor people. Beggars and loafers living under the bridge for food stamps also joined the queue to buy their guns, too. When people living in that cardboard and bridge conditions also bought them,
there as federal government to represent them anymore and not have the magnitude to the world too.Your view is close to Version 2 or stage 2 of America's Second Civil War
"In an ad released last year, Blake Masters, a leading candidate in Arizona’s Republican Senate primary,
cradles a semiautomatic weapon. “This is a short-barreled rifle,” he said, ominous music playing in the
background. “It wasn’t designed for hunting. This is designed to kill people.”
For Masters, this isn’t an argument against allowing such guns to proliferate. Rather, it’s an acknowledgment
of why access to these weapons is, for the right, a matter of existential importance. “The Second Amendment
is not about duck hunting,” said Masters. “It’s about protecting your family and your country. What’s the first
thing the Taliban did when Joe Biden handed them Afghanistan? They took away people’s guns.” Guns, in this
worldview, are a guarantor against government overreach. And government overreach includes attempts to
regulate guns.
These days, it’s barely remarkable when Republicans issue what sound like threats against those who’d dare
curtail their private arsenals.
...
Two years ago, David French, an anti-Trump conservative, published a book, “Divided We Fall,” warning of the
possible crackup of the United States. It included two chapters imagining scenarios for how the dissolution of
the country might happen. One involved a mass shooting at a school in California, to which the state’s people
reacted “with white-hot rage.” French envisioned furious state politicians defying the Second Amendment,
leading to a nullification crisis and blue-state secession.
He meant it as a cautionary tale, but rereading the chapter after Uvalde, it feels less bleak than our reality. In
French’s scenario, atrocity has the effect of energizing people rather than immobilizing them. They are determined
to fight, not resigned to defeat. They have audacity and hope.
The real nightmare is not that the repetition of nihilist terrorism brings American politics to an inflection point,
but that it doesn’t. The nightmare is that we simply stumble on, helpless as things keep getting worse."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/uvalde-shooting.html?searchResultPosition=2Maybe (do you think) "US should be divided into divided states (not united states) which is better for the world for themselves and best of all, for the world, too? This means if the US is broken up into independent republics, the US will not be
The US constitution was written to solve three intertwined problems: slavery, inequality, and power for the short term.
At present, slavery has morphed into systemic discrimination, inequality among people and among different states
are getting worse. The federal government and state governments are supposed to balance each other. But at present,
red states are not in general not happy with federal power.
Above all, Western democracy as practiced in the US does not work. Dysfunctional democracy allows fantasy to become
mainstream and consequently deepening polarization. The following article tells of the story how Koch brothers' 1980
fantasy backed by money has shifted the Overton Window. https://newrepublic.com/article/154849/david-koch-1980-fantasy
US breaking apart is a real threat, dangerous to US and to the world. The US system needs deep reform ASAP.
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