IMO, what's tearing this country apart is people preying on people who don't understand 9 letter words, and telling them they're being oppressed, while at the same time, trying to suppress education.
It's the boiling frog principle. Put a frog in cold water, and heat it very gradually. He will not jump out of the pot because the change is so gradual. He will stay in the pot until he is dead.
In a similar way, we have accepted small changes beginning as far back as the 1920's, which warped our values and our systems. We have ignored the internal depredations within our school systems, and we did not even jump to alarm when the Russian communists TOLD us how they planned to destroy us.
Now, suddenly, we have awakened to the TRUE cost of our long sleep.
Half of our nation WANTS to be destroyed. They have been brainwashed and bullied into believing it's ALL GOOD.
The other half want things to continue as our forefathers decreed in the US Constitution.
@Bumbles Agreed. And from a left wing perspective the best way to defeat a political system designed to marginalize certain groups is to create community networks and initiatives that make the flawed electoral system largely irrelevant.
In my old neighborhood there were far more community organizations that did way more for the community than the guy up in Ottawa ever did.
@ElwoodBlues That's imo to simple... these people were already groomed for the message partially due to a culture soaked in far-right ideas. And a network of snake-oil peddlers. Like: preachers dealing in politics, schmittian politicians, loads of far-right pundits on TV, internet and Talk-Radio, ... etc
If anything is tearing the US apart, it is dumb authoritarian nationalism and a denial of liberal democracy and the rule of law by a significant portion of the population and the body politic.
I would argue that Capitalism is tearing the US apart.
You have amazingly elite extremely rich people who are benefitting off their version of Capitalism and control and the majority of wage earners who are not earning enough to pay for accommodation and living expenses.
You then have smaller businesses copying how the elite got rich similarly exploiting their wage earners.
I would think that is what is tearing the country apart.
Because liberals have high ideals and ideas but have no will to help. They allow massive lawlessness and their solution is to not enforce the law but give them drugs so they continue to be low people. Low people do not question. Dims walk in lock step towards destruction.
Why do people keep beating that poor dead beat horse
The military industrial complex is providing many rich people with unneeded luxuries and beneficence from the government, Makes things even more seemingly hopeless more in our faces and more savagely austere for us
Your media gets u to NOT understand and use absurd words that convey the opposite of the truth. Why cant you feel the lie too. ?
Socialism for the rich is not what you want. You will never rate. But all people together can help one another create a more just humane world. That's what everyone wants
Maybe you don't. Are u holding out to be the next King Midas too?
Nobody wants Naziism either.
Your use of that world is just wrong. So please stop it.
Its late stage post- capital corruption (the rich have amassed EVRYTHING for themselves) that's ruining this planet and ignoring climate change and moving us to a desperate penniless hopeless unlivable neo feudalism
Can Americans even identify socialism? I saw a video from the 80s of Americans being told not to drink and drive and wear seat belts and they argued that was communism.
@Ceinwyn socialism doesn't go together with empire and war. Duh. Human rights don't count in a colonial settler empire. Duh. You aren't good. Evil isn't good. Duh
It objectively is not. For one there are no socialists in the USA with any kind of real power at all. But most people who make this claim don't even know what a socialist is.
Socialism? Nah. Everyone knows Americans are cruel and heartless and stupid. Human rights don't apply at their border or in the heartland . Everyone for himself.