Death of the American Empire?

[RetroRevolver77]

Yes, and the Deep State is realizing this. Can't have an aware and active populace, you know.

How will they respond? Lessee....all the mass shootings cause there to be TSA checkpoints every few miles. Nah, maybe in a few years.

How about chipping everybody so you can control their spending habits, movements, and track their every move. Yeah, that'd be inexpensive.

I know! They'll use Obamacare to control everybody! That's why they won't repeal it! Every good Commie knows if you control health care you control the population.

Doctor: "How many guns do you have? By law you must answer truthfully under penalty of perjury."

Days go by.

SWAT team shows up at your door.

"Mr. Smith, we need to take your guns. You take blood pressure meds and we just can't take a chance on one of the side effects being that you go on a shooting spree."

You: "But I've never even BEEN to Vegas."

SWAT commander: "That's okay, sir. Travel is no longer allowed without government approval."

Google; "high incident project".

Leaked a few weeks ago, essentially exactly what you are describing- scanners/metal detectors in nearly every major public place.

[Doc Safari]

Google; "high incident project".

Leaked a few weeks ago, essentially exactly what you are describing- scanners/metal detectors in nearly every major public place.

Yep. Isn't it interesting TSA gets away with everything?

Remember Obama's call for a civilian force with the same power as the military.

Why has the new POTUS not even mentioned reigning in TSA? Not even once.

[Feline]

Google; "high incident project".

Leaked a few weeks ago, essentially exactly what you are describing- scanners/metal detectors in nearly every major public place.

Intolerable Acts.

[Feline]

Yep. Isn't it interesting TSA gets away with everything?

Remember Obama's call for a civilian force with the same power as the military.

Why has the new POTUS not even mentioned reigning in TSA? Not even once.

Because he's made from the same cloth.

[Dienekes]

"Intolerable Acts"...the more things change, the more they're the same.

Damn, people are dumb.

[Firefly]

[RetroRevolver77]

Guys this is what I was mentioning in another thread about the Pew Research Data showing the two political parties are drifting apart. The article discusses that there is no more commality between the two parties. The Left absolutely does not respect any of the right's viewpoints. This could in turn spark a major serious conflict, not just the violent protests we've been seeing- something far worse.

From the article:
"The Pew study measures responses to issues Pew has been asking about since 1994, things like welfare, race, and immigration. On almost every count, the gaps between Republicans and Democrats held more or less steady up until around 2010, when they began to widen. Today, “Republicans and Democrats are now further apart ideologically than at any point in more than two decades,” with the median Republican more conservative than 97 percent of Democrats and the median Democrat more liberal than 95 percent of Republicans."


http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/10/...her-civil-war/

[chuckman]

Guys this is what I was mentioning in another thread about the Pew Research Data showing the two political parties are drifting apart. The article discusses that there is no more commality between the two parties. The Left absolutely does not respect any of the right's viewpoints. This could in turn spark a major serious conflict, not just the violent protests we've been seeing- something far worse.

From the article:
"The Pew study measures responses to issues Pew has been asking about since 1994, things like welfare, race, and immigration. On almost every count, the gaps between Republicans and Democrats held more or less steady up until around 2010, when they began to widen. Today, “Republicans and Democrats are now further apart ideologically than at any point in more than two decades,” with the median Republican more conservative than 97 percent of Democrats and the median Democrat more liberal than 95 percent of Republicans."


http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/10/...her-civil-war/

When I was in college in the late 80s a poli sci professor showed two graphs; a bell curve, how politics should be (with people amassing near the mean), and an inverted bell curve. We have now, and will continue to have, a worsening inverted bell curve.

I am fairly libertarian, and conservatives hate me for being too liberal, and liberals hate me for being too conservative.

[sundance435]

Not sure if it was the Pew study, but Bloomberg and Politico, within the last few months, had stories about research showing that there is a correlation between Republican voters being less accepting of societies/groups with non-Judeo-Christian values. The flipside is that Democrats, while more educated, were markedly more hostile to people who don't share their same view of what's "right"; they completely dismiss differing opinions/beliefs as just wrong; there is no room for difference of opinion or compromise. Maybe I'm not explaining the distinction well enough, but there is an important difference between the two types of "prejudice" the survey studied; one is more about resistance to change and the other is about imposing one's belief of what is right because the virtuousness of their position is so obvious. Of course the media was quick to point out the dumb, bible-thumping hick aspect.

[Doc Safari]

Whatever the details might be, the unwillingness of either side to respect the other's point of view will definitely be cited as a major contributor to Civil War 2. That is, if any of us are still around to debate such things in the aftermath.