Partisanship is (an awful lot like) treason
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These days I cannot help but draw comparisons between the retarded level of partisanship in this country and treason. I mean they seem to sort of have the same goals. 1. Encourage xenophobia, racism, class-ism, and so forth with the intent of undermining our society and political system 2. Work hard to prevent large swaths of the population from rising to their potential 3. Spread nasty rumors that are specifically intended to undermine anyone who doesn't share your own views 4. Put your own interests ahead of the interests of the people 5. Block success of any change or process if it doesn't work to your own advantage, or might be beneficial to the 'other side' 6. Just assuming that the 'other side' is guilty of anything the partisan political organization you call the news tells you they did, while denying to the death that your side ever does anything wrong (ironically both providing cover for real abuse of power while simultaneously making it easy to use false claims of such as a weapon or an attention deflection mechanism.) If someone from another country was doing these things successfully encouraging these things in the US on a broad scale, we'd staple them to a wall and shoot little metal pellets at them at high speed. But large numbers of people and organizations inside this country are doing these things on a daily basis. It's a cancer on our society and one of the primary indicators that education and intelligence aren't proportional since we are more educated on average than ever; but, if anything, growing more polarized and more happy to believe the most disgusting slander if it suits our own bigotry. We haven't remotely grown out of our animal roots and are so easily led around by our own fears and hatreds that it's ridiculous. And these days that's a growth industry, with organizations pushing those buttons like it's an ATM to make money, gain market, or build a rabid political base that they can turn into power. But they can only do that because of the unthinking bias of people in general, and their willingness to believe anything they are told if it aligns with their own prejudices. This is arguably the greatest threat we have. Powerful nations seldom fall from external attack. They rot from the inside. And, ironically, so much of our rot is in the form of people claiming that anyone who doesn't agree with them is that internal threat. When in actual fact it's the hate, stalemate and cynicism that flows from this never ending partisanship that is the really dangerous decay grow
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These days I cannot help but draw comparisons between the retarded level of partisanship in this country and treason. I mean they seem to sort of have the same goals. 1. Encourage xenophobia, racism, class-ism, and so forth with the intent of undermining our society and political system 2. Work hard to prevent large swaths of the population from rising to their potential 3. Spread nasty rumors that are specifically intended to undermine anyone who doesn't share your own views 4. Put your own interests ahead of the interests of the people 5. Block success of any change or process if it doesn't work to your own advantage, or might be beneficial to the 'other side' 6. Just assuming that the 'other side' is guilty of anything the partisan political organization you call the news tells you they did, while denying to the death that your side ever does anything wrong (ironically both providing cover for real abuse of power while simultaneously making it easy to use false claims of such as a weapon or an attention deflection mechanism.) If someone from another country was doing these things successfully encouraging these things in the US on a broad scale, we'd staple them to a wall and shoot little metal pellets at them at high speed. But large numbers of people and organizations inside this country are doing these things on a daily basis. It's a cancer on our society and one of the primary indicators that education and intelligence aren't proportional since we are more educated on average than ever; but, if anything, growing more polarized and more happy to believe the most disgusting slander if it suits our own bigotry. We haven't remotely grown out of our animal roots and are so easily led around by our own fears and hatreds that it's ridiculous. And these days that's a growth industry, with organizations pushing those buttons like it's an ATM to make money, gain market, or build a rabid political base that they can turn into power. But they can only do that because of the unthinking bias of people in general, and their willingness to believe anything they are told if it aligns with their own prejudices. This is arguably the greatest threat we have. Powerful nations seldom fall from external attack. They rot from the inside. And, ironically, so much of our rot is in the form of people claiming that anyone who doesn't agree with them is that internal threat. When in actual fact it's the hate, stalemate and cynicism that flows from this never ending partisanship that is the really dangerous decay grow
Politics always was more ugly in the US. However with Brexit I think we have caught you up.
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These days I cannot help but draw comparisons between the retarded level of partisanship in this country and treason. I mean they seem to sort of have the same goals. 1. Encourage xenophobia, racism, class-ism, and so forth with the intent of undermining our society and political system 2. Work hard to prevent large swaths of the population from rising to their potential 3. Spread nasty rumors that are specifically intended to undermine anyone who doesn't share your own views 4. Put your own interests ahead of the interests of the people 5. Block success of any change or process if it doesn't work to your own advantage, or might be beneficial to the 'other side' 6. Just assuming that the 'other side' is guilty of anything the partisan political organization you call the news tells you they did, while denying to the death that your side ever does anything wrong (ironically both providing cover for real abuse of power while simultaneously making it easy to use false claims of such as a weapon or an attention deflection mechanism.) If someone from another country was doing these things successfully encouraging these things in the US on a broad scale, we'd staple them to a wall and shoot little metal pellets at them at high speed. But large numbers of people and organizations inside this country are doing these things on a daily basis. It's a cancer on our society and one of the primary indicators that education and intelligence aren't proportional since we are more educated on average than ever; but, if anything, growing more polarized and more happy to believe the most disgusting slander if it suits our own bigotry. We haven't remotely grown out of our animal roots and are so easily led around by our own fears and hatreds that it's ridiculous. And these days that's a growth industry, with organizations pushing those buttons like it's an ATM to make money, gain market, or build a rabid political base that they can turn into power. But they can only do that because of the unthinking bias of people in general, and their willingness to believe anything they are told if it aligns with their own prejudices. This is arguably the greatest threat we have. Powerful nations seldom fall from external attack. They rot from the inside. And, ironically, so much of our rot is in the form of people claiming that anyone who doesn't agree with them is that internal threat. When in actual fact it's the hate, stalemate and cynicism that flows from this never ending partisanship that is the really dangerous decay grow
Dean Roddey wrote:
1. Encourage xenophobia, racism, class-ism, and so forth with the intent of undermining our society and political system 2. Work hard to prevent large swaths of the population from rising to their potential 3. Spread nasty rumors that are specifically intended to undermine anyone who doesn't share your own views 4. Put your own interests ahead of the interests of the people 5. Block success of any change or process if it doesn't work to your own advantage, or might be beneficial to the 'other side' 6. Just assuming that the 'other side' is guilty of anything the partisan political organization you call the news tells you they did, while denying to the death that your side ever does anything wrong (ironically both providing cover for real abuse of power while simultaneously making it easy to use false claims of such as a weapon or an attention deflection mechanism.)
Democrats.
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Dean Roddey wrote:
1. Encourage xenophobia, racism, class-ism, and so forth with the intent of undermining our society and political system 2. Work hard to prevent large swaths of the population from rising to their potential 3. Spread nasty rumors that are specifically intended to undermine anyone who doesn't share your own views 4. Put your own interests ahead of the interests of the people 5. Block success of any change or process if it doesn't work to your own advantage, or might be beneficial to the 'other side' 6. Just assuming that the 'other side' is guilty of anything the partisan political organization you call the news tells you they did, while denying to the death that your side ever does anything wrong (ironically both providing cover for real abuse of power while simultaneously making it easy to use false claims of such as a weapon or an attention deflection mechanism.)
Democrats.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
Both sides do exactly the same thing, while the partisans on both sides keep themselves in a frenzy that it's the other side that is responsible for all of it.
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Both sides do exactly the same thing, while the partisans on both sides keep themselves in a frenzy that it's the other side that is responsible for all of it.
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Dean Roddey wrote:
Both sides do exactly the same thing
I disagree. Especially with your first point. Democrats looks for racism anywhere they can trying to keep it alive.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Dean Roddey wrote:
Both sides do exactly the same thing
I disagree. Especially with your first point. Democrats looks for racism anywhere they can trying to keep it alive.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
Completely unlike of course the endless screaming about Obama not being an American citizen and all that stupidity? Anyone who thinks that both sides are not completely culpable in the problem is pretty much the definition of a partisan, ignoring the sins of his own side and only paying attention to the other side. The political machine on both sides has one goal, get back into office and get a majority. Anything that helps bring about that goal, no matter how divisive and destructive, is to them, by definition, a good thing and justified. They, and their political parties and the new organizations that align themselves to one side or another, all play every angle possible to undermine the other side.
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Completely unlike of course the endless screaming about Obama not being an American citizen and all that stupidity? Anyone who thinks that both sides are not completely culpable in the problem is pretty much the definition of a partisan, ignoring the sins of his own side and only paying attention to the other side. The political machine on both sides has one goal, get back into office and get a majority. Anything that helps bring about that goal, no matter how divisive and destructive, is to them, by definition, a good thing and justified. They, and their political parties and the new organizations that align themselves to one side or another, all play every angle possible to undermine the other side.
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Dean Roddey wrote:
Completely unlike of course the endless screaming about Obama not being an American citizen and all that stupidity?
How was that about racism? But on this point, the Democrats would claim anyone who criticized Obama was a racist. Find some evidence where the right is trying to keep racism alive. It won't be as easy as it is to find the left doing it. Or where the right is trying to keep a class down. Or where the right is spreading fake news and lies. The left is so much more corrupt than the right.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Dean Roddey wrote:
Completely unlike of course the endless screaming about Obama not being an American citizen and all that stupidity?
How was that about racism? But on this point, the Democrats would claim anyone who criticized Obama was a racist. Find some evidence where the right is trying to keep racism alive. It won't be as easy as it is to find the left doing it. Or where the right is trying to keep a class down. Or where the right is spreading fake news and lies. The left is so much more corrupt than the right.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
You are part of the problem, dude.
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You are part of the problem, dude.
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Dean Roddey wrote:
You are part of the problem, dude.
Because I don't think all people are equally to blame? OK. :rolleyes:
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Dean Roddey wrote:
You are part of the problem, dude.
Because I don't think all people are equally to blame? OK. :rolleyes:
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
I've been around since the 60s. That's a lot of (useless) flip and flopping back and forth between right and left.) Every single such cycle is pretty much the losers doing anything they can to get back on top and the winners doing anything they can to stay on top. Both sides have wasted vast amounts of money on silliness that had no purpose really but to create discord and hate that they could use to their advantage. Both sides have done equally. If, at one point or another, one side or the other hasn't been involved in using this or that particular nasty tool, it's only because they didn't think it was to their advantage at the moment, not because they are inherently less culpable in our messed up, polarized situation.
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I've been around since the 60s. That's a lot of (useless) flip and flopping back and forth between right and left.) Every single such cycle is pretty much the losers doing anything they can to get back on top and the winners doing anything they can to stay on top. Both sides have wasted vast amounts of money on silliness that had no purpose really but to create discord and hate that they could use to their advantage. Both sides have done equally. If, at one point or another, one side or the other hasn't been involved in using this or that particular nasty tool, it's only because they didn't think it was to their advantage at the moment, not because they are inherently less culpable in our messed up, polarized situation.
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I think the biggest problem is that in each cycle the opposition is taking it to a new level of ruthlessness. The current litter of Democrats, leftists and progressives are using tools straight out of the Nazi playbook all the while calling Trump a fascist. It's absurd. I honestly feel sorry for the next Democrat POTUS (whenever that may be) because if the right (and it's small portion of the MSM) ups the ante versus what the left (and it's large portion of the MSM) is currently doing to Trump -- it's going to be a blood bath.
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These days I cannot help but draw comparisons between the retarded level of partisanship in this country and treason. I mean they seem to sort of have the same goals. 1. Encourage xenophobia, racism, class-ism, and so forth with the intent of undermining our society and political system 2. Work hard to prevent large swaths of the population from rising to their potential 3. Spread nasty rumors that are specifically intended to undermine anyone who doesn't share your own views 4. Put your own interests ahead of the interests of the people 5. Block success of any change or process if it doesn't work to your own advantage, or might be beneficial to the 'other side' 6. Just assuming that the 'other side' is guilty of anything the partisan political organization you call the news tells you they did, while denying to the death that your side ever does anything wrong (ironically both providing cover for real abuse of power while simultaneously making it easy to use false claims of such as a weapon or an attention deflection mechanism.) If someone from another country was doing these things successfully encouraging these things in the US on a broad scale, we'd staple them to a wall and shoot little metal pellets at them at high speed. But large numbers of people and organizations inside this country are doing these things on a daily basis. It's a cancer on our society and one of the primary indicators that education and intelligence aren't proportional since we are more educated on average than ever; but, if anything, growing more polarized and more happy to believe the most disgusting slander if it suits our own bigotry. We haven't remotely grown out of our animal roots and are so easily led around by our own fears and hatreds that it's ridiculous. And these days that's a growth industry, with organizations pushing those buttons like it's an ATM to make money, gain market, or build a rabid political base that they can turn into power. But they can only do that because of the unthinking bias of people in general, and their willingness to believe anything they are told if it aligns with their own prejudices. This is arguably the greatest threat we have. Powerful nations seldom fall from external attack. They rot from the inside. And, ironically, so much of our rot is in the form of people claiming that anyone who doesn't agree with them is that internal threat. When in actual fact it's the hate, stalemate and cynicism that flows from this never ending partisanship that is the really dangerous decay grow
Nothing you mentioned is anything like treason. Not even a little bit.
Dean Roddey wrote:
1. Encourage xenophobia, racism, class-ism, and so forth with the intent of undermining our society and political system
This is basic politics, and has been since the dawn of time. Define a "them", which allows you to define an "us", which allows you to call for action against the evil them. This is as old as humanity.
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2. Work hard to prevent large swaths of the population from rising to their potential
See above.
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3. Spread nasty rumors that are specifically intended to undermine anyone who doesn't share your own views
Also, see above.
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4. Put your own interests ahead of the interests of the people
This is human nature; which is also why communism is flatly stupid at best and evil at worst. This is definitely not treasonous, or even immoral.
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5. Block success of any change or process if it doesn't work to your own advantage, or might be beneficial to the 'other side'
Whoop, see #1.
Dean Roddey wrote:
6. Just assuming that the 'other side' is guilty of anything the partisan political organization you call the news tells you they did, while denying to the death that your side ever does anything wrong (ironically both providing cover for real abuse of power while simultaneously making it easy to use false claims of such as a weapon or an attention deflection mechanism.)
Oh, hey, back to #1. So I'm going to give you a counter proposal. It seems to me that treating hyperbole as fact is a far bigger issue than your imagined "treason" (ironically, exactly the sort of language that you're lambasting). This is why fake news is a thing, why social engineers can operate en masse, and why outrage culture is even a thing. So stop being part of the problem. When you see something blisteringly stupid, take five minutes and revisit it. Do the bare minimum research. Don't be a freaking puppet.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
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Nothing you mentioned is anything like treason. Not even a little bit.
Dean Roddey wrote:
1. Encourage xenophobia, racism, class-ism, and so forth with the intent of undermining our society and political system
This is basic politics, and has been since the dawn of time. Define a "them", which allows you to define an "us", which allows you to call for action against the evil them. This is as old as humanity.
Dean Roddey wrote:
2. Work hard to prevent large swaths of the population from rising to their potential
See above.
Dean Roddey wrote:
3. Spread nasty rumors that are specifically intended to undermine anyone who doesn't share your own views
Also, see above.
Dean Roddey wrote:
4. Put your own interests ahead of the interests of the people
This is human nature; which is also why communism is flatly stupid at best and evil at worst. This is definitely not treasonous, or even immoral.
Dean Roddey wrote:
5. Block success of any change or process if it doesn't work to your own advantage, or might be beneficial to the 'other side'
Whoop, see #1.
Dean Roddey wrote:
6. Just assuming that the 'other side' is guilty of anything the partisan political organization you call the news tells you they did, while denying to the death that your side ever does anything wrong (ironically both providing cover for real abuse of power while simultaneously making it easy to use false claims of such as a weapon or an attention deflection mechanism.)
Oh, hey, back to #1. So I'm going to give you a counter proposal. It seems to me that treating hyperbole as fact is a far bigger issue than your imagined "treason" (ironically, exactly the sort of language that you're lambasting). This is why fake news is a thing, why social engineers can operate en masse, and why outrage culture is even a thing. So stop being part of the problem. When you see something blisteringly stupid, take five minutes and revisit it. Do the bare minimum research. Don't be a freaking puppet.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
I think it ultimately is like treason. It's working against the interests of your own country. Is it literally treason, obviously not. Hence why the title isn't "Partisanship is literally treason." But at some point, it starts to achieve the same goals. If you were an enemy of this country and wanted to bring it down, but knew you couldn't do so militarily or economically, how would you go about it? I imagine that you would seriously consider exactly what is happening, to sow massive dissension and distrust and cause us to waste enormous amounts of energy on petty internal squabbling and political stalemate. In fact I would imagine that there are quite a few people sitting in rooms in various other countries who jobs are to help enhance this process.
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I think it ultimately is like treason. It's working against the interests of your own country. Is it literally treason, obviously not. Hence why the title isn't "Partisanship is literally treason." But at some point, it starts to achieve the same goals. If you were an enemy of this country and wanted to bring it down, but knew you couldn't do so militarily or economically, how would you go about it? I imagine that you would seriously consider exactly what is happening, to sow massive dissension and distrust and cause us to waste enormous amounts of energy on petty internal squabbling and political stalemate. In fact I would imagine that there are quite a few people sitting in rooms in various other countries who jobs are to help enhance this process.
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No, the only place that's treason is a fascist country. In the US the most important thing is (supposed to be) individual liberty, and the nation is in place to bolster that. Not vice versa. Treason in the US is about putting the interests of a foreign power over ours and abusing authority granted by the US government (vice the US people) to do so; that's completely it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of political parties, but this sort of hyperbole and hysterical overreaction is, again, the problem.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
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No, the only place that's treason is a fascist country. In the US the most important thing is (supposed to be) individual liberty, and the nation is in place to bolster that. Not vice versa. Treason in the US is about putting the interests of a foreign power over ours and abusing authority granted by the US government (vice the US people) to do so; that's completely it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of political parties, but this sort of hyperbole and hysterical overreaction is, again, the problem.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
But if you weaken the US, you DO put the interests of other countries ahead of your own. It's not like they aren't going to step up if we falter, or step in anywhere we fall back. You can call it hyperbole, but I think that the level of polarization today is vastly beyond what it's been in the past, because the means for it to spread and faster is vastly larger and news organizations are overtly part of the left/right divide now. I think it's very dangerous where things are, and if you project it forward it's not good.
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But if you weaken the US, you DO put the interests of other countries ahead of your own. It's not like they aren't going to step up if we falter, or step in anywhere we fall back. You can call it hyperbole, but I think that the level of polarization today is vastly beyond what it's been in the past, because the means for it to spread and faster is vastly larger and news organizations are overtly part of the left/right divide now. I think it's very dangerous where things are, and if you project it forward it's not good.
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Dean Roddey wrote:
You can call it hyperbole, but I think that the level of polarization today is vastly beyond what it's been in the past
The US Civil War. Ergo, hyperbole.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
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Dean Roddey wrote:
You can call it hyperbole, but I think that the level of polarization today is vastly beyond what it's been in the past
The US Civil War. Ergo, hyperbole.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
That was NOT partisanship. That was a war over economics (and slavery of course though at that time it was primarily an economic issue.) Completely different. It wasn't about who was on top, it was about the southern states having gotten themselves addicted to free labor and being forced to give it up, at great monetary cost to the wealthy who lived there.
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That was NOT partisanship. That was a war over economics (and slavery of course though at that time it was primarily an economic issue.) Completely different. It wasn't about who was on top, it was about the southern states having gotten themselves addicted to free labor and being forced to give it up, at great monetary cost to the wealthy who lived there.
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Dean Roddey wrote:
That was NOT partisanship.
Quote:
an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.
Do you have a different definition? Because this definition encompasses the opposing political sides at the time of the War to Crush Treason in Defense of Slavery.
Before the oath, Trump has managed to surpass 2nd term Nixon for paranoia, 2nd term Reagan for corruption & 2nd term Bush for incompetence.--R. Schooley Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” The president fired the FBI director to obstruct a federal investigation into possible collusion with a foreign power to fix an election. - Jesse Berne
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Dean Roddey wrote:
That was NOT partisanship.
Quote:
an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.
Do you have a different definition? Because this definition encompasses the opposing political sides at the time of the War to Crush Treason in Defense of Slavery.
Before the oath, Trump has managed to surpass 2nd term Nixon for paranoia, 2nd term Reagan for corruption & 2nd term Bush for incompetence.--R. Schooley Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” The president fired the FBI director to obstruct a federal investigation into possible collusion with a foreign power to fix an election. - Jesse Berne
Cause and effect. The south broke away because of economics. They didn't consider it treason of course. They considered that to be their right, since it was only by common agreement that the states were incorporated. That led to a war, which obviously led the north to call it treason since they argued that the south didn't have the right to leave the union. And of course it wasn't a matter of left/right. Abraham Lincoln had to fight his own party over it matter pretty heavily. And, of course of course, once a war starts, then partisanship goes through the roof, because now it's not about politics anymore, it's about people getting killed and families torn apart and the economy nose diving and on and on. So it gets ugly fast, but not for the stupid 'who gets to sit in the big chair' reasons that I was talking about. The country was already torn apart, literally.
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Cause and effect. The south broke away because of economics. They didn't consider it treason of course. They considered that to be their right, since it was only by common agreement that the states were incorporated. That led to a war, which obviously led the north to call it treason since they argued that the south didn't have the right to leave the union. And of course it wasn't a matter of left/right. Abraham Lincoln had to fight his own party over it matter pretty heavily. And, of course of course, once a war starts, then partisanship goes through the roof, because now it's not about politics anymore, it's about people getting killed and families torn apart and the economy nose diving and on and on. So it gets ugly fast, but not for the stupid 'who gets to sit in the big chair' reasons that I was talking about. The country was already torn apart, literally.
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Dean Roddey wrote:
The south broke away because of economics.
If you read their documents of secession or read the Cornerstone speech, the South went to war over slavery.
Dean Roddey wrote:
They didn't consider it treason of course.
Maybe, maybe not. It was still treason.
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And of course it wasn't a matter of left/right.
Whether you chose to call it left/right or liberal/conservative or something else, it was still a partisan divide. One was right and the other was wrong.
Before the oath, Trump has managed to surpass 2nd term Nixon for paranoia, 2nd term Reagan for corruption & 2nd term Bush for incompetence.--R. Schooley Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” The president fired the FBI director to obstruct a federal investigation into possible collusion with a foreign power to fix an election. - Jesse Berne