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Most Americans Do Not Believe That This Chapter Of American History This is a very difficult article for me to write. America is more divided today than it has ever been in my entire lifetime, and the very deep divisions that now exist are getting deeper with each passing day. In particular, the animosity between the political left and the political right has risen to an extremely frightening level. Instead of learning to love those that we disagree with, we are constantly being trained to absolutely loathe them, and the pot is constantly being stirred by the mainstream media and many of our national leaders. And as both sides go at it like cats and dogs, irreparable damage is being done to our political system. At this point, we are not too far away from a point where this country will not be governable by anyone. Our federal government has degenerated into a bad soap opera featuring an endless parade of insults, threats, petty stunts, scandals and investigations. All of this drama may be entertaining at times, but it is not any way to run a country. And now all of the political strife and discord in this country has been given a focal point. I have repeatedly warned that Democrats should have never gone down the road of impeachment, because either way this process turns out it is going to be very bad for America. If Trump is impeached by the House but protected by the Republicans in the Senate, the left is going to go absolutely ballistic. But if Trump is impeached by the House and then removed from office by the Senate, the right is going to go absolutely ballistic. Either way, this story is going to have a very negative end. And even if Trump wasn’t in the White House, the seething hatred between the left and the right would still be there. In fact, things have gotten so bad that a new survey found that 67 percent of all Americans believe that we are “on the edge of civil war”…
I was stunned to see such a high number. Obviously most Americans don’t actually want a “civil war”, but this is what most of them see coming. Earlier today, I came across an article about a Major League Baseball umpire named Rob Drake that is now in hot water for posting about “civil war” on Twitter…
Is that really how this chapter in American history is going to end? Are we destined to see utter chaos in the streets? I am not saying that we should all try to find a way to agree on everything. When it comes to our most fundamental values, there are certain things that I will never, ever, ever agree on with my political opponents. And the fact that our nation no longer has a cohesive set of values is definitely a big part of the problem. With various national leaders constantly touting their own value systems and trying to pull us in a whole bunch of different directions simultaneously, it is certainly not surprising that we have ended up at this point. But nobody should want a fractured nation where we are literally fighting with one another in the streets. Of course when you ask people about who should be blamed for this mess, Democrats point at Republicans and Republicans point at Democrats. If you doubt this, just check out these numbers…
Frustration and anger have been building in this country for a very long time, and now this impeachment process threatens to be a flashpoint. No matter what happens, tens of millions of Americans are going to be deeply, deeply upset by the result, and you don’t want to be there when their anger is unleashed. A number of years ago I wrote a novel which envisioned absolutely massive protests in Washington D.C., but at that time I had no idea that Donald Trump would become president or that the Democrats would one day try to impeach him. And now it looks like the Democrats want to have articles of impeachment ready by the end of this year, and that means that a Senate trial is coming soon. And once a Senate trial starts, the eyes of the entire world will be on Washington. Many on the right are assuming that a Senate trial will be a slam dunk for Trump, but it is not necessarily safe to make that assumption. On Wednesday, the number two Republican in the Senate said the following about this process…
That certainly doesn’t sound like someone that already has his mind made up about how he will vote. There are going to be a lot of twists and turns to this drama in the weeks ahead, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the end result will not be a good one for America. And as I just detailed above, a large percentage of the population shares my pessimism regarding how this chapter in
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