Member of Congress Among 5 Reportedly Shot at Baseball Field

[Secular Elf]

I remember when Justice Scalia died, and I saw a lot of celebratory 'tweets' from people I wouldn't consider extreme, and that was sort of the writing on the wall, in my mind.

If you believe someone's death is something to be celebrated, "someone should murder them" is a conclusion you can reach pretty easily..  

And the second event of note, in my mind, was the Alt-Right guy getting sucker punched on camera.  And again, the reaction was celebratory.  Which to me says "Violence against people you disagree with is good."  

I expect we're going to see more of this stuff in the near future.  During the primaries, I remember all the explanations how Trump is "Just like" Hitler.  Or sometimes worse than Hitler.  Well, if Trump were worse than Hitler, and elected president...what should be the response to that.  If Republicans are just like Nazi's.  If Democrats are going to strip you of all your freedom and get you killed.  These are caricatures of things people have gone to war over.  

It's good for turning out the vote and selling newspapers/ad time, so it'll never go away.  But I think political violence like this is just getting started.

Well this is how divided America has become. The politics of divide and conquer, of using wedge issues to distract the public from what is really going on, has been used by the Religious Right and the Conservative Republicans for a very long time, since the GOP was took over by the Religious Right, the Dominionists, since the late 1970's and the early 1980s, and very effectively by the way. This is all about nothing more than power and control, and making money in the process. If we all do not wake up and become aware that we are being led by the nose to a theocratic fascist Christian state, then we will lose our democracy and lose all of our freedoms. Hell, how much of our freedoms have we given up already through both technology and the fear of terrorism?

I have been feeling for a long time that we are on the road to another civil war. All of you who are my fellow Americans better had ask yourself one question: will you be safe and secure in defending yourselves when the shit hits the fan? What are we doing now for both ourselves and our people to make sure to either prevent that from happening or to be prepared to face a war time existence in the Homeland?