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> So what happens? How do we work this out where we can share society together?

What makes you think that's still even a reasonable expectation? Likely, there will be blood in the streets. Even if the leadership peacefully admits defeat to end the formal dispute, the radicalization on your side has, with the deliberate encouragement of rhetoric from the top, probably gone too far for there to be any reasonable expectation that that won't be where this ultimately ends for many of the foot soldiers.

And, the people on your side that have been seeking specifically a second civil and/or a race war may well still get what they have sought.




The "people on my side" haven't been seeking a second civil war or race war. There may be a handful of Richard Spencer types but no one I know agrees with anything like that. What I know is a multi ethnic coalition that is anti-globalist, anti-bureaucratic, anti-war and nationalistic in the sense it believes in strong American identity and state and it believes in free and transparent elections.

The same "extremist" comments could be made about antifa types but it wouldn't be representative of all Democrats, many of whom are probably something like school teacher union and human resource members not communists with Molotov cocktails.

These are big coalitions but you are smart person who spends a lot of time over the years commenting on politics and you know that I'm sure.

I hope you are wrong about blood in the streets. I really do. But you might not be. Both sides have gotten a bit too extremist and utterly convinced of their righteousness so it might go to bad place no matter the outcome.


> Both sides have gotten a bit too

it takes a lot of nerve to "both sides" the problems with the last US election, I'll give you that.

I suppose that the well-worn talking point is a comfort when you cannot defend the actions on their merits. It's facile, deceptive BS, though.


Your exact attitude _is_ the problem (which you apparently don't see) but are you even in the US?

Demanding transparent and legal elections and refusing to accept results from those that aren't isn't extremist.




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