Where do we go as a nation?
Lowering flags is a sign of respect, and while we do show respect for those that were pointlessly massacred by two lunatics, is lowering flags really the best way to do that? To me that is acquiescing to those that are seeking their moment of glory.
Our country is at a crossroads. On one hand we have people that are so blinded by their hatred of the President that nothing he proposes will be given a hearing. The president himself said that if he proposed a single payer government funded health care system that the Democrats would be against it, because he was for it. These that suffer from TDS see no good in the President, and are bipartisan in their hatred. They don't accept the uniqueness that is the United States, or that our culture is better than others. They look for cracks, they look for problems and highlight them. This wing includes a large number of people that were paid to disrupt his campaign rallies, and supporters of opponents and their supporters.
On the other hand, we have those that blindly follow the President, who would excuse him if he called for people to go out in the street and murder someone. This group is also bipartisan, but is different from the other. It is a group that proudly identifies itself as American. This does include, unfortunately, fringe elements such as neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other wacko groups.
People blame President Trump for this division. One of the classes I took last semester had two textbooks pointing out all the things that were bad about candidate and President-elect Trump. How he would refuse to accept the results of the election, and so on. Funny, it seems that one side has not accepted the results. For nearly three years now, the media and the Democrat party have gone from delusion to delusion, hoping that each one would be the one to prove that it wasn't that they ran the worst candidate, who ran the worst campaign in history. The truth is that the division has been bubbling around for years. Probably decades. I think what really drove the spike was the promised unity that was shattered on day one of the Obama administration. There was no unity, there was no bipartisanship, only "we won, and elections have consequences"
It was the Democrats that started filibustering judges in Bush 43's first term. Not the GOP.
While the GOP threatened to use the Constitutional option to end the filibusters of judges and other nominees, it was the Democrats that actually did it. Senator McConnell just built on what Senator Reed started.
Obama used Executive Orders in a way that really hadn't been done before. Why? Because Congress was deadlocked. Partisanship ruled. Trump is no conservative, and certainly no libertarian. I wrote in support hoping that he would build on what President Obama had done, finally draining the swamp, and fixing things. Well, nearly three years in, the swamp has proved resilient, and while he has beaten back regulation to a certain extent, it is not how I had envisioned it. I find it hilarious that the most apolitical politician probably since Washington now is president and yet the division is greater than ever.
And now we have mass shootings. On the left, we hear calls for weapon bans, buy backs (how can it be a buy back when the government didn't own the gun in the first place?) out right confiscation, because 20,000 federal gun laws aren't enough.
When any shooting happens, conservatives immediately go into a "shields up" mode. Any infringement on the 2nd Amendment is a violation of the Constitution and must be stopped. And some of the 2020 Democrat presidential candidates are talking about door to door search and confiscation laws (hello 4th amendment also?) But they don't care about that, the Constitution is a living document, meaning it means what they want it to mean.
Both sides talk at each other, or rather shout at each other. They won't listen to each other. We won't listen to each other. We have not been so divided since the Civil War, and I wonder if we may be more divided now than we were then. It is just not geographically divided.
When the Founders created the Constitution, most of them felt that states, being the sovereign bodies that they are, could opt out at some point that it was no longer working for them. Of course when secession was attempted, Lincoln squashed it. At the cost of hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of lives affected. I have argued repeatedly in the face of the #CALexit movement that if they seriously wanted to leave, that we should let them.
Can I just mention a plug for the Convention of States? It is a project building steam where representatives of the states get together to propose specific amendments to the Constitution, to get things back on track. It would be an Article V Convention, and alternative to Congress passing with 2/3rds majorities in both houses and amendment and sending it to the states. If 2/3rds of the State Legislatures call for a Convention, then a convention is held, with any amendments being sent out to the states to be ratified. You can read more here. conventionofstates.org
Our country is at a crossroads. On one hand we have people that are so blinded by their hatred of the President that nothing he proposes will be given a hearing. The president himself said that if he proposed a single payer government funded health care system that the Democrats would be against it, because he was for it. These that suffer from TDS see no good in the President, and are bipartisan in their hatred. They don't accept the uniqueness that is the United States, or that our culture is better than others. They look for cracks, they look for problems and highlight them. This wing includes a large number of people that were paid to disrupt his campaign rallies, and supporters of opponents and their supporters.
On the other hand, we have those that blindly follow the President, who would excuse him if he called for people to go out in the street and murder someone. This group is also bipartisan, but is different from the other. It is a group that proudly identifies itself as American. This does include, unfortunately, fringe elements such as neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other wacko groups.
People blame President Trump for this division. One of the classes I took last semester had two textbooks pointing out all the things that were bad about candidate and President-elect Trump. How he would refuse to accept the results of the election, and so on. Funny, it seems that one side has not accepted the results. For nearly three years now, the media and the Democrat party have gone from delusion to delusion, hoping that each one would be the one to prove that it wasn't that they ran the worst candidate, who ran the worst campaign in history. The truth is that the division has been bubbling around for years. Probably decades. I think what really drove the spike was the promised unity that was shattered on day one of the Obama administration. There was no unity, there was no bipartisanship, only "we won, and elections have consequences"
It was the Democrats that started filibustering judges in Bush 43's first term. Not the GOP.
While the GOP threatened to use the Constitutional option to end the filibusters of judges and other nominees, it was the Democrats that actually did it. Senator McConnell just built on what Senator Reed started.
Obama used Executive Orders in a way that really hadn't been done before. Why? Because Congress was deadlocked. Partisanship ruled. Trump is no conservative, and certainly no libertarian. I wrote in support hoping that he would build on what President Obama had done, finally draining the swamp, and fixing things. Well, nearly three years in, the swamp has proved resilient, and while he has beaten back regulation to a certain extent, it is not how I had envisioned it. I find it hilarious that the most apolitical politician probably since Washington now is president and yet the division is greater than ever.
And now we have mass shootings. On the left, we hear calls for weapon bans, buy backs (how can it be a buy back when the government didn't own the gun in the first place?) out right confiscation, because 20,000 federal gun laws aren't enough.
When any shooting happens, conservatives immediately go into a "shields up" mode. Any infringement on the 2nd Amendment is a violation of the Constitution and must be stopped. And some of the 2020 Democrat presidential candidates are talking about door to door search and confiscation laws (hello 4th amendment also?) But they don't care about that, the Constitution is a living document, meaning it means what they want it to mean.
Both sides talk at each other, or rather shout at each other. They won't listen to each other. We won't listen to each other. We have not been so divided since the Civil War, and I wonder if we may be more divided now than we were then. It is just not geographically divided.
When the Founders created the Constitution, most of them felt that states, being the sovereign bodies that they are, could opt out at some point that it was no longer working for them. Of course when secession was attempted, Lincoln squashed it. At the cost of hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of lives affected. I have argued repeatedly in the face of the #CALexit movement that if they seriously wanted to leave, that we should let them.
Can I just mention a plug for the Convention of States? It is a project building steam where representatives of the states get together to propose specific amendments to the Constitution, to get things back on track. It would be an Article V Convention, and alternative to Congress passing with 2/3rds majorities in both houses and amendment and sending it to the states. If 2/3rds of the State Legislatures call for a Convention, then a convention is held, with any amendments being sent out to the states to be ratified. You can read more here. conventionofstates.org
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