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I think on this Forum, we all do a pretty good job of expressing our opinions without being hostile, because we all are pretty much on the same page as far as our overall values and Americanism.
Unlike those on the left (and of course I’m generalizing), conservatives and libertarians tend to be willing to agree to disagree. When I’m around conservatives and libertarians, and especially the Christian subset of those groups, I never have the feeling that any of them would fail to have each other’s back if things got nasty. We just generally avoid things getting to that point, but it sure seems like those on the left are pushing and provoking.
One thing I’ve noticed is that even the people who think the shooting was justified, are pretty much not celebrating it or saying it was a good thing, even if they think it might’ve been a necessary thing. That’s totally unlike the behavior of the ‘other side’ when it came to the murder of Charlie Kirk.
This all reminds me of things I’ve read about Charles Manson and the Tate murders, where it appears that the CIA was trying to provoke more violence between blacks and whites for whatever reason (read the book ’Chaos’ by Tom O’Neill on the topic). I think the evidence was pretty clear that was the case, but I really don’t understand what their goal was. Were they racist and trying to get the whites to eradicate the blacks, or were they simply trying to destabilize the United States…?
It certainly appears at this point that there are a bunch of people who really want to trigger a violent civil war in the United States, this time between liberals and conservatives or urban and rural or illegal alien versus citizen. Those parties appear to include the left-wing ‘mainstream’ news media, the Democrat party, the RINOs, and presumably China, Russia, or other nations that would like to destabilize our nation.
We’d best not let that happen, which is a good reason for those of us who are conservatives or libertarians to discuss things like this politely and not get to split up amongst ourselves. So far, I think we are doing that. The question becomes how can we reach and educate the 75% or so of the public who really aren’t paying attention but will jump on whatever emotional bandwagon the left puts in front of them…?
Politics gets pretty complicated if you have to take into account history and contemporary world politics and national politics, and how it interfaces with economics and human behavior, and a large part of the electorate quite literally cannot read at an eighth grade level, and are more concerned with what government program will give them free stuff or who Britney Spears is dating, than they are anything more abstract or long-term. Than you add the ideologues who have some kind of childhood daddy-issue or mommy-issue and pretty much hate the United States and everything it stands for, and
I think we have a tinder box on our hands…
