Maggie's Farm

The Barrister: It's a big country and there are only two teams. I happen to feel that division and disputation is mostly good and healthy.

To some degree. Keep in mind, despite the idolatry concerning the U.S. Constitution, U.S. history includes a period of time when the Constitution failed to quell division, resulting in violent civil war. That same history also includes racial oppression on a vast scale, particularly of black and native Americans.

Leaving aside Trump's shallow narcissism and gross ignorance, the President-Elect drove a wedge deep into the heart of American society with his unrepentant bigotry, the fault line that many Americans had thought was finally healed. He says he wants to be president for all the people, so he needs to find a way to unify the country, but this won't help:


This is consistent with his other anti-democratic stances, such as when he refused to say he would accept the results of the election — unless he won. Why should others accept his election when he himself set such a standard? And if he doesn't regret his own incendiary rhetoric, why should others refrain?

jaybird: didn't obama say "I won" to justifly not cooperating with repubs?

It was Republicans who were obstructing, and refusing to account for the president's position as executive.

In any case, we're talking about Trump's incendiary language. He claims he wants to unify the country, but that will be very difficult after his campaign that featured bigotry, a call for the imprisonment of his political rival, refusal to say he would accept the results of the election, and years of trying to delegitimize the first African American president.

jaybird: Why don't you ever want to discuss slick willy clinton's travels on the "Lolita Express" and visits to the Orgy Island with captured underage sex slaves as a character fault?

There are courts for that sort of thing. Let us know when there is actual evidence of misconduct, rather than you think it feels true.

jaybird: Is it an "undemoratic stance" to wait to see how many trunkfulls of democrat ballots are found in operatives cars after the second recount? of how many inner city precincts with 100% dem votes have many more votes than registered voters?

Making up stuff is not a valid argument.

Response to the Presidential election: "We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!"