1870 – 1900 is considered to be one of the most politically polarized periods in American history, with open political violence and highly polarized political discourse, riots in the 1820's, birth and death of 3 major parties, 4 wars including a civil war.This is true, and yes it has always been true, but the political climate was never quite this hot in America. In fact there hasn't been this many people to ever care about politic's until it started getting in their face like it has now. It'll settle back down maybe, but it's up to government as to how long it wants to keep the pot stirring instead of turning down the heat.Americans have a right to live wherever they want. Far righters could head to Tennessee, Louisiana, Wyoming, or South Dakota and those farthest to Left could head to Massachusetts, Hawaii, Washington, or California. The problem with this idea is that the lives of most people are not driven by politically ideology. Things such jobs, family, friends, economic opportunity, cost of living, weather, culture, transportation, are far more important to most people than political ideology.She ought not want to serve because of the current situation in this country, but that is what is hoped for by the Democrat's isn't it ?Without membership in any committees, she will not be doing much in the House. Committees are were things get done. A congressmen that is not on any committees will have trouble getting anything promised to constituents or financial supporters. Losing membership in committees is the worse punishment in the House other than being expelled.I was disappointed but not surprised by her reaction today. She has every intention of continuing her britches on fire level of rhetoric against the other side of the aisle.Maybe so.I don't agree with her being removed from the House, but I agree with all the rest. Maybe like USMB members, politicians too will think twice before sticking their chests out about political violence.She should have been expelled from the House for here stand against essential every thing the CDC recommended to stop the spread of the virus, her anti-Semitic and Islamophobic views she expressed in public, her support for the QAnon conspiracy theories, and calling for the murder of the Speaker of House. If we get enough people like this leading the nation, they will destroy it.Thursday evening, the House voted 230-199—with 11 Republicans voting with the Democrats— to remove Greene from her committees. It is, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “unfortunate” that it came to that. “You would think that the Republican leadership in the Congress would have some sense of responsibility to this situation,” she said. But they did not.
House votes to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of committee assignments
Thanks to House Republicans circling the wagons around Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her history of truly gross statements and actions, Democrats had to hold a full House vote to strip her of committee assignments. That included an...www.dailykos.com
House votes to kick Greene off committees over embrace of conspiracy theories
House Democrats on Thursday took the extraordinary step of voting to strip committee assignments from a member of the opposite party, saying Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) had forfeited her ri…thehill.com
That poor girl.
Whenever voters put someone like this in office, it creates doubts about democratic elections as well as the sanity of the voters. Thankfully, she is the exception and not the rule.
Of course, she's angry today, too. Maybe she'll calm down a little, but anyone who became interested in politics for the first time because they heard a champion in Donald T**** is not likely to be very reasonable. She may have given up on Qanon fantasies, but she is a TRUE fan of T****. She's not spouting his bullshit to get votes--she believes it.
Probably time to create an alternative universe (redraw the lines) inside this nation now, because it has all came to a head finally where Republican's and the average working class conservative Christian or multiple religious belief's type of citizen's aren't willing to sell their souls just to go along with bad thing's that most know are bad in the nation now....
Otherwise many people aren't just going to go along just to get along because their beliefs don't allow them too. Doesn't ever have to be violence involved, but just like school choice, the nation needs citizen's choice. Yes, choose the state or territory of one's choice in unison with million's more who like wise want the same. That's freedom, and it also goes great with the spirit of competition. It's time to stop allowing ourselves to be held back or held down due to bad character's in one of the greatest, modernized, rich in resources, freedom loving nation in the world.
1950s-60s were every bit as politically polarized as today, 2 wars, desegregation, black riots, antiwar riots and protests, civil rights marches, bombings, the assignation of a president and his brother, and the leader of civil rights movement.
I'm pretty sure Biden in the White House will cool things down a lot. Unlike Donald Trump, he's going to depend on his press secretary a lot. He has reinstituted weekly news conferences as a primary means of communicating with the nation. Although he has a twitter account, I doubt he will use it as Trump did. Throughout his career he has relied on sanitized carefully worded speeches and press release. In short, after his first month are so in office, I expect he will be a pretty dull president, no rallies, no off the cuff chats with the American people, and certainly no day to day commentaries on policy issues and initiates.
