Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 18:26:15 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.atheism Subject: Re: Billionaires Say There'll Be A CIVIL WAR If They Don't Get Trump's Big Tax Cut References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 11:35:47 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 47 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-ReobatxGCb4M0ymUFh5C00OZmmcLAtZUJ7O8rtRk7Ltr22eaxdkuwJZqiSNZpk419UbflSm5nmIVX4G!M4o2Qn0RpzP6Ux0LuRHMQzYnzTXNqCMkA9iRnvqjSJVB2ilABUrLIFuVM8kXDH8qNux79aSk4owl!Qhs= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3326 In article , The Corp wrote: > Billionaire investor Ray Dalio has raised concerns about the future of the > United States, saying the current political climate has created a one-in- > three chance for civil war. > > In an interview with The Financial Times this week, Mr Dalio described how > the polarization of American politics has contributed to an extremely > turbulen time in history. > > "We are now on the brink," Mr Dalio told the news outlet, adding that he > sees a 35 to 40% probability of a second civil war. > > He clarified that the civil war he sees is not one where people "grab > guns and start shooting" but one where people stop seeing the middle ground > in politics. But he imagines, "People move to different states that are > more aligned with what they want and they don't follow the decisions of > federal authorities of the opposite political persuasion," Mr Dalio said. Oh, you mean like 'sanctuary cities'? > Studies have shown that Americans are growing more politically polarized > now than ever before. A Pew Research Poll found that only 32% of > Americans have a roughly equal number of conservative and liberal positions > -- compared to 49% in 2004. > > Contentious election cycles are becoming more common, which contributes to > the growing rift between both political parties. > > Social media has made it easy for like-minded extremists to connect and > support each other which emboldens people to take radical action. Like > those who organized protests and eventually stormed the Capitol on January > 6, 2021. Notice how this author only uses examples of Republican violence. No mention whatsoever of an entire summer full of cities on fire, businesses smashed and looted, people killed. Leftists taking over entire sections of a city, declaring it off limits to police, fire, and EMS, patrolling it with "assault rifles" (which are supposedly anathema to the left), then committing all manner of crime inside its boundaries, to include rape and murder. And all with the tacit (and often overt) approval of leftist government officials, news media, and celebrities. But the media is objective and unbiased. Just ask them, they'll tell you so.