[mmasters]

I predict California will break off from the rest of the US and do its own thing. Maybe they can merge with Mexico and become Maxico. Maybe they can start their own central bank and print money to solve their problems. That would be interesting to see.

So where do you think this is all headed? I think certainly Trump will have another term and at that point we'll see the D's depressed, institutionalized and probably some high profile suicides. The media will make a bigger ass of itself this second time around.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mmasters', '
')So where do you think this is all headed?

[mmasters]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mmasters', '
')So where do you think this is all headed?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mmasters', '
')I don't think recent history compares to this level of divisiveness, you have to go back to the 1960s and the Vietnam war to get the flavor of where we are now.

[Shaved Monkey]

Faith in democracy is shaken
To restore faith will take lots of time.

But basically its economics the trickle down economics social experiment failed and the pies got smaller,the people left behind are angry
The people winning dont care.
The anger has given us Trump and Brexit and every weird political combination in Europe and the rest of the world.
You can only have this class warfare against the poor and middle class for so long before they realise that the Trumps of the world are the problem not the solution

[Newfie]

My hit tells me that Plant is onto it.

I think this recent Kavanaugh “outing” may push people over the edge against the D’s, not that the media will portray it that way.

I’ve precious little evidence of this, one point really. A friend on Facebook base been relentless anti-Trump. But today he posted about the Ford accusations. Clearly very, very cynical of the maneuver.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', '
')I think this recent Kavanaugh “outing” may push people over the edge against the D’s..... Clearly very, very cynical ..... maneuver.

[jedrider]

Is it a problem OR a symptom OR both at once?

[Plantagenet]

I thought of another inconsistency in Prof. Ford's account of what happened to her 38 years ago.

Not only does she not have a hicky, but she didn't tell her mommy what happened.

If something traumatic actually had happened, of course she would've told her mommy about it. The fact that she didn't tell her mommy about it says to me it didn't happen.

If she does agree to testify about this, I certainly hope one of the Senators asks her to explain why she didn't tell her mommy about this supposedly horrible thing that supposedly happened to her at the high school make-out party 38 years ago.

Or was it 37 years ago? Prof. Ford is so flakey she doesn't even know what year this supposedly happened in. Again, I hope a professor can at least get her to say what year it happened in before moving on to her more contentious claims.

Cheers!

[MD]

waste of my attention, bye bye.

but I will say about the headline: too much conflict today, not enough love and understanding. The trends are bad and will not end well, unless people get a grip on forgiveness and tolerance. That's it. Bye!

[Cog]

Where is the left's tolerance and forgiveness for me the conservative? You do not compromise with people who would wish to disarm you and then execute you.

[dissident]

I am hoping a majority of "leftists" realize that they are being led around by the nose by the MSM and internet SJW media outlets. The events since 2016 have no logical progression and are simply media induced hysteria. The MSM is trying to smear any conservative that does not worship at the altar of SJW as a full bore Nazi. This is not innocent and is some sort of power grab.

Normal people (left or right) should not accept a one-party dystopia.

[Plantagenet]

Another reason Prof. Ford won't testify before the Senate is that she would have to be put under oath.

Its one thing to mail secret "poison pen" letters to Congress and make anonymous claims through the media. Its is quite another to have to stand up and swear under penalty of law to tell the truth.

The fact that Prof. Ford won't swear under oath that her claims are true is very suspicious, IMHO.

AND Her request for an FBI investigation of her claims would create another Mueller investigation, where the FBI goes fishing for something incriminating rather then investigating a known crime------and, in spite of Mueller's example, its not the job of the FBI to go fishing around in people's lives for crimes.

Cheers!

[jedrider]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'W')here is the left's tolerance and forgiveness for me the conservative? You do not compromise with people who would wish to disarm you and then execute you.

[Newfie]

Yeah, it’s like two siblings

“But Mommy HE started it!”

“ No I didn’t liar!”

“Both of you to your rooms, NOW!”

Sulk, stomp, SLAM!

[asg70]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', '
')One good to come of this is that apathy and being non-politicized is now a thing of the past. Well, there is good and bad in that at the same time. We would be fortunate to be allowed the luxury of being non-politicized as we once were.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', '.')... all we have to show for the struggle is gridlock.

[Newfie]

That may be overstating it. At least some of the framers were very anti-political parties. And there is nothing in the constitution setting up political parties.

The government was designed not for gridlock but to assure nature discussion and debate between learned men, humans if you insist.

That it has development over into the partisan political wrangling is a pity.

The ladies themselves are a huge part of the problem. They need to be reformed but I don’t know how. I think Trump is in a way single finger salute to the 2 party system.

[Cog]

The separation of power with three co-equal branches of government was established not to achieve speedy legislation, but to act as a brake on ill-advised and hasty decisions. All with the backdrop of a constitution which further restricted government from taking any negative actions with respect to individual rights. An imperfect system but it mostly works. Much better than the rule of the mob which is what a pure democracy turns into.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', '
')The government was designed not for gridlock but to assure nature discussion and debate between learned men, humans if you insist.