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[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nobody with half a brain would fall for that

it's a lot of good people on the far left side of twitter

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Where we need to take America doesn't need extremists, of any kind.

I don't have a problem when Americans dislike abortions. I do have a problem when they try to take the option away from Americans.

I don't have a problem with people protesting civil rights violations. I do have a problem with Americans rioting and killing each other.

Extremism of any kind is toxic and has no place in a stable future. That's because all extremism is born out of a strong emotional desire or need from the people.

IMO the only way out of this is to stomp out the conservative extremist fires and roll back the damage they've done. Only this will appease the extreme left enough for them to walk back from the line.

Progress forward is a balancing act that requires a soft touch. Unfortunately we had four years of a crude daft orange ogre that destroyed that balance.

As long as we make it through the next two months, we should be fine. Extremists can't do anything against a mind they can't manipulate. Just don't fall for the emotional trap.

Stay calm, stay vigilant, stay in control.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

You won't do anything, centrist, that's the point of being a centrist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“America in 2016 was perfect until orange man ruined it, we simply need to return to 2016 and everything will be ok”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

American politics in 2016 wasn't perfect, that's why it's been called the "Great American Experiment".

But the world was a whole lot quieter in 2015. Wasn't it?

Americans got along a lot better than they do today in 2015. Didn't they?

My point was that we need to go back to that if we have any hope of moving forward.

Unfortunately, the Russian and Chinese governments have been trying to drive a wedge between the American public, and they're succeeding. Their actions have fractured American conservative parties into useless, "do-nothings". Now they're trying to do the same thing to the left. Until now they've been unsuccessful.

The United States of America has peered into the abyss before, similar to how we are now. I'll quote something that someone very wise said at that time that still rings true today.

A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

As we stand upon the precipice, with baited breath, I hope for a future that my children can inherit.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My point was that we need to go back to that if we have any hope of moving forward.

So, Make America Great Again

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

America is just Exceptional that way

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Thanks for reminding me to read this book:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This was reported, I'm not sure its rule breaking, but its weirdly aggressive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)