Has The US Grown MORE Corrupt During The Pandemic? Americans Reject BOTH Party Establishments
Team Rising discuss Americans’ overall dissatisfaction with both Democrats and Republicans.
Is America Heading for a Systems Collapse?
By Victor Davis Hanson, Independent Institute As the 2022 midterm elections approach, who will stop our descent into collective poverty, division—and self-inflicted madness? In modern times, as in ancient Rome, several nations have suffered a “systems collapse.” The term describes the sudden inability of once prosperous populations to […]
America’s hyperbole habit is the worst thing ever
By Damon Linker, The Week The risk and roots of our nonstop panic and alarm. Have you heard the news about the imminent end of American democracy? The president of the United States has been talking about it — how the country has embraced Jim Crow 2.0 and […]
Colbert Calls For Abolishing The Senate, Democrats Push INSANE Authoritarianism As U.S. Falls Apart
Colbert Calls For Abolishing The Senate, Democrats Push INSANE Authoritarianism As U.S. Falls Apart. Democrats continually claim democracy is dying yet keep calling for plans that would end the US constitutional republic.
Nearly 80% Say Democracy Is Screwed & America Can’t Come Together
America right now is like that tail-end of a marriage that both parties know is already over. The fighting, bickering, blaming, and all the bad stuff. The old center, the status quo is failing and neither side is happy with it anymore. You simply have half the people […]
EXCLUSIVE: Why Are Non-COVID Deaths Spiking Among Prime-Age Americans?
Increasingly, the domestic USA really is becoming a Third World country. The US ruling class, in collusion with their junior partners around the world, may preside over the most powerful state/empire in history, but that doesn’t mean that decades of neglect haven’t reduced domestic US society itself to […]
Senate candidate J.D. Vance defends caustic jokes because ‘our country’s kind of a joke’
By Grayson Quay Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance argued in a recent interview with Spectrum News that “our country’s kind of a joke. And we should be able to tell jokes about it,” the Ohio-based news network reported. According to Mediaite, Vance made the statement when journalist Taylor […]
If It Becomes a Dictatorship, Will It Be TOO LATE to Leave the Country?
–Voicemail caller asks whether waiting until the US becomes a dictatorship before leaving the country is a bad idea because it may become difficult to leave a dictatorship
Dissecting Biden’s BANANAS Press Conference
I don’t even know what to say to someone who actually thinks Biden went or is going too far left. It’s like trying to argue with someone who thinks the problem with grass is that it’s too pink.
‘Downhill,’ ‘divisive’: Americans sour on nation’s direction in new NBC News poll
By Mark Murray, NBC News WASHINGTON — Overwhelming majorities of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, that their household income is falling behind the cost of living, that political polarization will only continue and that there’s a real threat to democracy and majority rule. […]
Subway diary: Decay and depravity underground as system struggles to recover
By Kerry J. Byrne New York Post In the wake of the horrific subway shoving death of 40-year-old Upper West Sider Michelle Go last week in Times Square, The Post spent three days surveying the troubled transit system, where crimes have soared by 30% this year compared with […]
Library security guard is viciously attacked by pit bull after approaching passed-out owner to administer Narcan
By Christina Coulter Dailymail A security guard at the San Francisco Main Library was attacked by a pit bull as he tried to administer Narcan to its unresponsive owner on Sunday The dog ‘wouldn’t let [security guards] near the man, and pulled one guard down to the ground […]
Today’s “Wayward Puritans” of the Academic “Elect”
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition The American mentality is unabashedly elitist. Indeed, mediocrity is anathema to the American way of life. Much of the Americans’ ire toward communism has nothing to do with its tyranny, but with their animus toward equality. John Steinback had it right: Americans see […]
Why An Expert In Political Violence Is Worried About Civil War In The U.S.
In the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, academics and journalists have taken the possibility of future political violence in America increasingly serious. In her new book “How Civil Wars Start And How To Stop Them,” Barbara F. Walter writes, “We are now closer […]
‘If Donald Trump is not dead or in jail, he will run for president’ | Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson
‘The threat of violence is a powerful political tool.’ Ines Pohl, DW’s Washington bureau chief, spoke with Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, about the political future of the United States, the consequences of the Capital riot a year ago, and the dangers of the fractionalized country. […]
Federal Government Mum on Non-COVID Mortality Spike in Americans Aged 18 to 49
By Petr Svab Epoch Times Federal authorities have yet to respond to an Epoch Times analysis that shows a dramatic increase in deaths of 18- to 49-year-olds in the United States in the past year. The majority of those deaths weren’t associated with the COVID-19 disease. Deaths in […]
Why Black & Latino Democrats Are Standing Up To White Progressives On Crime, Drugs, & Homelessness
This article is interesting because it foreshadows what mainstream political debate is going to look like in the future, at least in heavily populated areas. Today’s moderates are tomorrow’s conservatives. Today’s far-left are tomorrow’s liberals. Over time, today’s conservatives (e.g. FOX fans) are going to be increasingly small […]
Yale history professor Timothy Snyder told Insider he fears American democracy may not survive another Trump campaign
Timothy Snyder’s viewpoint is interesting. Of course, he is a Yale academic, and therefore a high priest among the new clerisy, and his main concerns are both preserving the empire and achieving the hegemony of the Blue Tribe within the empire. His main fear is the emergence of […]
USSR 1922-1991, USA 1776-2025?
By Timothy Snyder Thirty years ago today the Soviet Union came to an end. This is not an occasion for triumphalism. It is a warning. Stagnation, or the absence of a future, was the underlying Soviet problem. Stalinism had created temporary social mobility in the Soviet Union, if […]
A dream of power, an awakening to destruction
By Timothy Snyder As we reach the first anniversary of Trump’s failed coup attempt, the former president and his supporters are indulging in a pleasant dream of his return to power in 2025. An electoral victory seems unlikely: he lost last time as an incumbent by seven million […]
The Next January 6th
The threat to American democracy and the U.S. electoral system did not end when the U.S. Capitol building was cleared and the presidential vote was certified on January 6, 2021. In fact, because of actions taken in states around the country throughout 2021, the threat today is as […]
Is the U.S. on the Verge of Civil War?
One thing Stephen Marche gets right is with his recognition that the primary conflict in the USA is over existential issues which makes it an essentially religious conflict. Conflicts pertaining to class and race are only subsets of the larger conflict, which explains why we increasingly have people […]
Why the US Is a Failed Democratic State
By Lawrence Lessig, New York Review of Books The self-governing republic works only if it expresses the will of the majority. But one party is now committed to minoritarian rule by any means. The State Department is hosting a democracy summit this week. Representatives from around the world […]
Look Behind The Curtain: Discussion with Author Walter Kirn
By Matt Taibbi The terrific humorist, journalist, and novelist talks about the downfall of journalism, bureaucratic absurdity, and class cruelty in a blistering indictment of an America turned upside down. Walter Kirn is from the Midwest, worked for Time magazine, and has written a pile of wonderful novels, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Nationwide Surge In Deaths Among People Aged 18-49: A State by State Overview
Drug overdoses, alcoholism, suicides, murders, medical neglect, poor diet, deaths from accidents due to recklessness…Decreasing life expectancy in developed countries is almost unheard of. This is one of the sharpest indications the USA is in serious social decline. By Petr Svab Epoch Times Deaths among people aged 18 […]
America’s road to January 6
One of the best analyses of the current US political situation I have seen to date. By Ed West Back in the late 1940s American politics had a problem. The issue was serious enough for Congress to authorise a committee looking into divisions between the country’s two parties. […]
Opinion: What authoritarianism would look like in America
I’m not exactly sure how different this is from what goes on now. By Jim Chrisinger, Yahoo Donald Trump and Republicans are shoving America toward authoritarianism. That’s why many of us are shouting about a threat to democracy. Many Americans don’t fear a potential slide into authoritarianism because […]
Noam Chomsky: GOP’s Soft Coup Is Still Underway One Year After Capitol Assault
C.J. Polychroniou,Truthout In the third and final presidential debate of 2016, Donald Trump had signaled that he might not concede the election should he lose to Hillary Clinton. However, he did say to his supporters a day later that he would definitely accept the results of the election […]
Jimmy Carter: I Fear for Our Democracy
By Jimmy Carter, New York Times Mr. Carter was the 39th president of the United States. This article is part of a collection on the events of Jan. 6, one year later. Read more in a note from Times Opinion’s politics editor Ezekiel Kweku in our Opinion Today […]
Yes, One Year Later, They’re Still Trying the Coup
–One year after the January 6 Trump riots, the coup fears are only bigger, with recent op-eds from Jimmy Carter and Noam Chomsky, as well as warnings from retired generals and many others
Oprah & Obama Call Joe Manchin & BEG Him
We live in a world where daytime talk show host Oprah and a former President of the United States are given equal importance in headlines. We have lost all seriousness.
Legacy Media WIGGING OUT Over Possible Second CIVIL WAR. Fear-Mongering Or Legitimate Concern?
Team Rising debates whether America is headed towards a second Civil War.
The USA is Ranked is 95 Among Nations in Social Capital
Solability.Com Social capital The Social Capital of a nation is the sum of social stability and the well-being (perceived or real) of the entire population. Social Capital generates social cohesion and a certain level of consensus, which in turn delivers a stable environment for the economy, and prevents […]
3 in 5 American Voters Fear Violence Over 2024 Presidential Election: Poll
By Anders Anglesey Newsweek A majority of American voters fear election-related violence at the next presidential election in 2024, recent polling suggests. It comes after three former U.S. Army generals raised concerns about the risk of “civil war” over the White House vote, although some experts downplayed such […]
The Decline of the American World
From 2020. By Tom Tague, The Atlantic Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new. “He hated America very deeply,” John le Carré wrote of his fictional Soviet mole, Bill Haydon, in Tinker […]
Is Trump Laying the Groundwork for a Coup in 2024? Bill Moyers Weighs In
Clashing ideologies about the meaning of democracy in America are no less harrowing than the events of January 6. Journalist Bill Moyers, a 30-time Emmy Award winner, shares his views and concerns in the new PBS documentary “Preserving Democracy,” airing tomorrow. Moyers speaks with Hari Sreenivasan alongside historian […]
How does this end? Where the crisis in American democracy might be headed
By Zack Beauchamp Vox Americans have long believed our country to be exceptional. That is true today in perhaps the worst possible sense: No other established Western democracy is at such risk of democratic collapse. January 6, 2021, should have been a pivot point. The Capitol riot was […]
Jason Stanley Warns: “America Is Now in Fascism’s Legal Phase”
Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley sees January 6, 2021 as part of a history of fascist impulses in American politics. This is the focus of his book “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.” His latest article in The Guardian is titled “America is now in […]
How dangerous talk of a “second civil war” is different today
Is a “second civil war” possible? On the latest “Reality Check with John Avlon,” historian Professor Edna Greene Medford and CNN’s Elle Reeve talk about the American history of violent struggles to hold onto power – from Reconstruction to January 6.
How Likely Is A New U.S. Civil War?
Author Barbara F. Walter warns in her new book that the country is closer to a civil war than it has been for more than 100 years. She joins Mehdi to discuss what should be an unthinkable question: Is America one step closer to civil war?
County board to act on 2nd amendment sanctuary next week
I am for every political, cultural, ideological, economic, identity, or issue-based group there is forming “sanctuaries” of their own. By JENNIFER BAILEY JBAILEY@DANCOMNEWS.COM A group of local citizens called the Vermilion County Constitutionalists have been trying since last year to have Vermilion County become Illinois’ 68th Second Amendment […]
Modern America’s Most Successful Secessionist Movement
By Antonia Hitchens The Atlantic In rural Oregon, voters fed up with their state’s leftward turn have embraced a simple and outlandish idea: What if we were just Idaho? In the summer of 2015, a chimney sweep in Elgin, Oregon, redrew the map of the American West. “Imagine […]
Secession might seem like the lesser of two evils. It’s also the less likely.
By Stephen Marche, Washington Post When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) talks about a “National Divorce,” as she did again in a tweet on Wednesday, she may be advancing the cause of secession or she may just be seeking attention. Either way, she knows what she’s doing — […]
The next US civil war is already here – we just refuse to see it
By Stephen Marche, The Guardian The right has recognized that the system is in collapse, and it has a plan: violence and solidarity with treasonous far-right factions. Nobody wants what’s coming, so nobody wants to see what’s coming. On the eve of the first civil war, the most […]
A backsliding democracy and a civil war in the making.
By Holly McCall, Tennessee Lookout Tennessee’s leaders have already shown an eagerness to bend to Donald Trump at the sacrifice of American democracy. The day Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2020 presidential election, my husband asked me why I wasn’t happier: He thought I’d be in […]
Is a Civil War Ahead?
By David Remnick New Yorker A year after the attack on the Capitol, America is suspended between democracy and autocracy. The edifice of American exceptionalism has always wobbled on a shoddy foundation of self-delusion, and yet most Americans have readily accepted the commonplace that the United States is […]
Half the U.S. Believes Another Civil War Is Likely. Here Are the 5 Steps We Must Take to Avoid That
By Peter T. Coleman Newsweek Coleman, PhD, is a Professor at Columbia University who studies intractable conflict and sustainable peace. His latest book is The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization. An astonishing moment occurred at the apex of the horrifying violence that erupted on the steps […]
We Are In a New Civil War … About What Exactly?
By JOHN F. HARRIS Politico For most of my reporting career, to refer to some dispute or another — over a judicial nomination, perhaps, or an uproar over a proposed shopping mall near a battlefield — as “a new Civil War” was to reach for a metaphor. On […]
Are red states and blue states on the verge of a civil war?
By Peter Ramjug Northeastern University Civil War is coming,” a New Jersey woman posted on social media days after participating in last year’s storming of the U.S. Capitol. Indeed, America had not experienced a disruption in the peaceful transfer of power like what happened a year ago since the […]
I don’t want to fight about it but this talk of US civil war is overblown
By Amanda Foreman, Sunday Times Experts on conflict predict unrest, but America has a long way to go before it is as divided as it was in 1861. iolence is in the air. No one who saw the shocking scenes during the Capitol riot in Washington on January […]
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