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Political Polarization

Polarization in a physical body has to have a limit lest the polarized body break apart. (Imagine the distance between Earth's North and South poles — 8595.35 miles — increasing indefinitely.) It is no different with the body politic.  We will eventually break apart or be broken apart by an external force (how about the ChiComs in cahoots with the Russkis?) if our political polarization continues.  United we stand, divided we fall; come on now people, let's get on the ball.  We won't of course.

Time was, when I read Mona Charen and George F. Will with quite a bit of approval. But then Trump came along and both lost their minds.  Here is Will over at The Washington [Com]Post. Take a gander at the comments to gauge the level of present political polarization.

Dear old Mona's latest outburst anent Trump is such that I cannot bring myself to sully my site by linking to it.

Do you want to hear some sane and characteristically brilliant commentary by a lion of the law?  Here is Alan Dershowitz on the Trump indictment. (HT: Vito Caiati)

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6 responses to “Political Polarization”

  1. Dmitri Avatar
    Dmitri

    Great post and Dersh link, thanks both. As he says — no victim, no crime used to be a strong no go indicator for prosecution. Not anymore… Dershowitz himself used to be a mainstream media darling prior to his attempt to be objective about Trump. The times they are changing and not for the better.

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  2. BV Avatar
    BV

    Hi Dmitri. You know all about Lavrenti Beria. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/lavrenti-beria-executed
    He is supposed to have said something like: You show me the man and I’ll find the crime.
    What I have been warning about for years has come to pass. The US is now the new SU.
    Trump alone can reverse things. Like him or not, he’s all we’ve got. By the way, what kind of chucklephuck orders his life by likes and dislikes?

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  3. Joe Odegaard Avatar
    Joe Odegaard

    This is from “A Man for All Seasons:”
    William Roper:
    So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
    Sir Thomas More:
    Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
    William Roper:
    Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
    Sir Thomas More:
    Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!

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  4. Joe Odegaard Avatar
    Joe Odegaard

    This: Bragg’s Lawfare Tears Apart A Thousand Years of Anglo-American Jurisprudence
    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/04/braggs_lawfare_tears_apart_a_thousand_years_of_angloamerican_jurisprudence.html

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  5. Joe Odegaard Avatar
    Joe Odegaard

    This: read this. We are in for it.
    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/04/leftism_and_the_minions_of_satan.html

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  6. BV Avatar
    BV

    Thanks for the links, Joe. Like I say, we are JERKING toward social collapse.

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