re: What you uniparty fans just don’t get is that we are sick of the status quo’s

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Only people who have never experienced real chaos say stupid shite like that. Start practicing, “What was I thinking?”

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Yeah, before it starts, a lot of people believe the violence ends with them enforcing their will on their enemies. In reality, a lot of times these things have a way of spiraling and introducing new actors until someone you never expected to take charge is in control.

When the Afghan/Soviet war started in the 1970s, it was primarily between socialists and Sufi hardliners (Tajiks and Uzbeks in the north, Pashtuns in the South). When the Soviets withdrew, the winners spend half a decade killing each other for control of the country. Meanwhile the Taliban (who are Wahhabists and extreme by any measure in recent Afghan history) started consolidating power in the south and eventually Hekmatyar and the other Pashtuns either surrendered or made peace agreements with them, the leaders mostly found themselves hanging, the women were driven out of schools and into burkas, the graves of their ancestors were defiled for not being Wahhabists, and Massoud, the leader of the Tajiks was assassinated. When the first shot was fired no one knew who these dudes were, and now they rule the country and even drove us out after 20 years.

Same when the Christians and the Sunni Muslims fought for control of Lebanon in the 80s. When Israel invaded to keep the peace/assist the Christians, they didn’t even have a plan to deal with the Shiite population who had lived in the mountains and away from power for 100 years, and then the Shiites ended up killing everyone in an insane jihad.

Or closer to home take the example of Edmund Ruffin who campaigned for secession for fifteen years before the civil war and almost ceremoniously fired the first shot at Sumter. A few years later he died by his own hand after watching the south crumble and many of his loved ones die.

Maybe the most important conservative principle you can have is just the knowledge that things will never be perfect but there is no limit to how bad things can get

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Obviously we're doing something right

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As a country, everything just gets worse and worse. We’re worse off today than we were ten, twenty, thirty years ago.

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You say that as if the results have been poor

We're the largest economy in the world and the undisputed global superpower

Obviously we're doing something right

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Go drink another cup of Jim’s KoolAid! You can’t keep spending the way we are and not defending the Dollar as the currency reserve and not expect some serious consequences!

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You say that as if the results have been poor We're the largest economy in the world and the undisputed global superpower Obviously we're doing something right

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If you’re on a smooth road and up ahead you see a giant pot hole and people destroying sections of the road would you:

A. Change lanes and then report it so it can be stopped and fixed

Or

B. Continue in the same lane at full speed because the road has been fine so far

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Maybe the status quo isn't as bad as we make it out to be.

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Do you actually think we are keeping the status quo?

I don't.

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Something has to change plain and simple

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What's the change you need in your life?

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We're the largest economy in the world and were the undisputed global superpower

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We are a joke to most of the world under this administration.

The sooner you dipshits understand that the Matt Goetz of the world are just playing you for fools, the sooner we can get this country turned around. At least when the republican party was unified, the democrats have had somewhat of a check and balance on what they could do. The last four years, they haven't had to care what the country thinks of them. Matt Goetz and his band of misfits have split the party so bad that we may never be able to pass any legislation worth a shite. And you all think he's America first. That's the saddest part in all of this.