The Polarization of America - and it's dangers

[katkavage]

There clearly are Evangelical leaders that mix politics and religion. Franklin Graham is the poster child for it. Just follow his Facebook page for a few weeks. He called Democrats and liberals anti-God socialists. He spoke against liberal policies and he worked to strip equal protections for gays and transgender. He also mirrored his comments to what Trump was saying. When Trump was running for President and was talking about a Muslim ban, Franklin was fanning the flames of fear and hatred against Muslims.

There is a danger in mixing politics with religion. I read a study that found in this environment, when political beliefs are at odds with someone

[MightyGiants]

This is how Republicans who are being paid by our tax dollars behave in Congress.   Is it any wonder our nation is becoming more and more polarized?

.@AOC responds: "This is a woman that's deeply unwell and clearly needs some help."

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— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) May 14, 2021

[Blue4Life]

JBG,

Just to address a point.  Donald Trump tried multiple times to overthrow our government.   After he lost the election he tried to get his Republican allies at the state level to overturn the legal results.  Then he tried to get his republican allies in congress to overturn the legal results.  When all of that failed, he sent an angry treasonous right-wing mob to attack our nation's capital.   

I really fear for our nation's future.  How democratic institutions withstood Trump's and the Republican's attempts to overthrow our government this time, but what about next time?????  Trump and his GOP allies have already punished and where they could remove those patriotic Republicans that put their nation ahead of Donald Trump.    Liz Cheney was removed from power for daring to speak the truth that Trump lost the election.

So with the patriotic and honorable Republicans being removed from power, what happens next time.   There is an excellent chance those forces will simply say "we don't like the results of the election, so we are going to declare ourselves the winners".    It's a frightening and very realistic threat

It's not the first, nor will be the last time election results had been contested. I seem to recall Gore contested the result against Bush and lost. There might have been others previously, but it does not seem fair to single out the Republicans, when Democrats did the same.

Unless of course, you are focusing on the last election cycle and previous contesting the result does not matter, be that by Republicans or Democrats...

[MightyGiants]

It's not the first, nor will be the last time election results had been contested. I seem to recall Gore contested the result against Bush and lost. There might have been others previously, but it does not seem fair to single out the Republicans, when Democrats did the same.

Unless of course, you are focusing on the last election cycle and previous contesting the result does not matter, be that by Republicans or Democrats...

Actually, there were significant differences between Gore VS Bush and Trump VS Biden

While they both took their challenges to the court, Gore let the courts decide and accepted their decision.

Trump took everything and anything he could think of to court and lost over and over and over again.   When that failed he attempted to overthrow our government (as I previously discussed)


Edit to add, I just remember another similarity.  There were violent mobs of Republicans attacking the offices where the recounts were taking place.  So Republicans trying to use force to overthrow an election isn't all that new

[jimmyz]

It's amazing Trump even lost supreme court challenges considering he 'packed' the courts with what the Left considers Klansmen.