Of all weeks, this is not the one I should be picking fights. Well,
geronimo.
a political system brought to its knees by partisan fighting
Also known as checks and balances. I sure wouldn't want everyone to always agree in Congress.
There's checks and balances, and then there's what's been happening in Congress. It's not 'checks and balances' to have to rewrite Senate rules because of partisan stonewalling, nor is it 'checks and balances' to treat the Supreme Court as a political football. Calling some of the fuckery 'checks and balances' is disingenuous at best.
Patriotism. Very different things.
And in this case, it's nationalism. A lot of the groups in Charlottesville weren't even hiding it, they call
themselves nationalists or fascists or other such terms, in addition to bandying about nationalist symbols.
"armed resistance" being touted as the ways to "save the nation" (a.k.a. #MAGA)
Armed resistance to what? The people with all the gun elected the president they wanted. Germany would've been better off with some armed resistance but you gave up your guns to Hitler.
:lol: Now you're really grasping at straws.
"Armed resistance" to the left. Like the NRA ad that wanted people to fight the "violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth". Along with using other words like "assassinate" and "Hitler", it was a thinly veiled threat. Add in
op-eds that say a new non-metaphorical civil war is about to start, and the call to arms is pretty damn obvious.
To the second point, it would be funny if it weren't so gobsmacking that you question the need for armed resistance and then claim that all the gun owners elected and presumably support the president. Sounds like the veiled threat of oppression with arms against a disarmed populace, so what difference do you see with your own Third Reich example? That it's ok because the left can simply arm itself because 'muh 2nd Amendment'? Do you lack the imagination to see how incredibly close such an action would be to actually start the 2nd civil war? The armed already see a threat from the left, the left arming itself will simply confirm their prejudices and, in the right's heads, give them the ok to start seeing them as targets since "they're obviously arming themselves to take away what we've gained".
an incompetent President with serious psychological issues, economic uncertainty and inequality...
You got all that from a fight between extreme fringes that this country's leadership immediately spoke out against? Wow!
That was evident throughout the campaign. When Trump campaigns on "bringing back coal", trashing NAFTA as stealing jobs, holding up that Carrier deal as an example of what he'd do for the underemployed and unemployed American manufacturing workers, etc etc etc. This is speaking to the US in general, not the Charlottesville violence specifically.
perhaps it would have been nice to teach Americans more history than they bad, we good, we won.
There was literally a neo-nazi rally in Dresden this year. Perhaps you should start by researching who the bad guys were and who the good guys were before spouting nonsense.
Let's: the fascists were the bad guys, the antifascists were the good guys. Saying "Germans vs Americans" is generally true but discounts the Americans who supported the Nazis and the Germans who resisted the Nazis.
Anyways, Mike Pence called out "white supremacists, neo-nazis, and the KKK". I imagine you guys will be able to find something racist about that too.
There will always be those who snip at any statement, in this particular case I imagine with "he's lining himself up for the presidency." Personally I'm glad Pence condemned them uncritically strongly; it's what Trump should have done.
Ironically, I see a completely different problem from what many of you see. I see the left blindly extrapolating the actions of a few to tens of millions that actually condemned those actions. I see a rise of thought police on the left as they pretend to fight made-up injustices. I see attacks on basic human and constitutional rights, including freedom of speech. I see anti-hate protesters in Boston waving Soviet flags, completely oblivious to the irony. I see cops murdered in revenge for what most often turns out to be justified legal shootings of thugs and criminals, yet the same left decries anyone they disagree with as violent and intolerant. I see the left dividing us based on our race, gender, religion, etc, yet somehow calling it a fight for equality. Sad.
And I see a sucker:
The biggest difference is that the insanity of the right is on a small scale - it's only a tiny fringe element that clings to white supremacy, Nazism, etc. Meanwhile, the insanity of the left is far more widespread and not confined to an obviously nonsensical minority. On the right, pretty much everyone is speaking out against the white power douches in Charlottesville; on the left, hardly anyone is discussing the Soviet flag-waving masked antifa douches.
The Soviet flag wavers weren't the ones who killed a person in Charlottesville. The infighting doesn't quite garner the same attention.
What do I mean by that? Imagine a hypothetical where Trump goes for a naked power grab and tries to repeal the 2nd amendment so no one can rise up against him.
Then you'd "team up" with the Soviet flag wavers and Antifa. You wouldn't really "team up" with them, you wouldn't support them; it's more of an "enemy of my enemy can be useful in the short term for a better chance at defeating the common enemy but we're not friends". You'd still think them dumb and say so, but the infighting that causes would be drowned out almost entirely by the arguably more important news of the situation.