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yurbud

(39,405 posts)
8. conservatives have one serious disadvantage: numbers of people
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 12:33 PM
Jun 2018

at best, they have a hardcore of a third of Americans who are racist white nitwits (not that all three go together all the time).

They cannot hold onto those people and attract other voters.

They would have a hard time doing martial law with a military that has a greater share of minorities than the general population.

We are in a period EXACTLY like that before the Civil War when we had one party on the side of morally unrestrained greed willing to use violence to maintain their control and an opposition party that did their best not to oppose them.

That party had to die before there could be effective opposition.

I hope that is not what is required now, simply because we don't have time.

Too many things are at stake and could go wrong before a new party could make it to the driver's seat.

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