How long has it been a battle between Republicans and Democrats? A pretty long time (100+ years). I am sure only one side is corrupt and the power struggle hasn't led to corruption on all sides. To assume only one side is corrupt, plays favors, or helps themselves secure more power/influence.... sounds naïve. Trump was the worst and has made the climate even worse. Trump needed go, we can all agree. Does that make all Republicans evil or Democrats less corrupt just because Trump was in office? We need to get off this "Republicans are evil, racist, and the ultimate example of corruption!"
Republicans are lost atm. In no small part due to Trump. As if the rhetoric coming out of the other side has done nothing to play into the division. Making politics a black and white issue of us vs them doesn't help.
250 million people participated in a general strike in India to change how their government was acting. 250 million people. DvR just sounds like a method to keep that from ever happening.
(Edit: Moved sentence around to make more sense, my train of thought jumps)
One side supports the constitution and one side clearly wants to destroy it, it doesn't matter much at this point in history what their motives are, racism, stupidity or even if they have fallen under a magic spell. We live in this moment of history and while we can learn from the past we cannot relieve it. In this historical moment the lines of division are crystal clear, you very nearly lost your country constitution and freedom and need to apprehend the danger. This is not politics, this is a pivotal period in American history and the nation is held in the balance. You are but one election cycle from losing it all, the intentions of the republicans is clear from their actions, not their words.
This cannot and will not be forgotten and should not be. Why do you think over 500,000 thousand died, were they not casualties of war? I'm Canadian and if you had the same per capita death rate as my country the toll would be 100,000 instead of the catastrophe that befell you. To forgive and forget is to kick the families of their victims in the teeth and spit in their faces. Somethings are unforgivable for many people and mass murder is one of them. This is not politics it is war and it will be war for a long time to come, get used to it, or roll over and die now. They declared war upon you if you are a patriot and they did it a long time ago, most American patriots have awakened to this unpleasant fact of life by now.
There will be no de-escalation on the part of patriots, in deed most haven't even begun to fight. Peace and calm will prevail in the land however, that helps the patriots side, cools things down and allows people to introspect and gives them space to evolve. That's Joe's plan, to calm things down and allow some folks some time to think things over. This is a cold civil war and it is best fought cold, by those who use reason and logic. It's about hearts and minds, winning over a few percent of them and isolating the racists, of sowing division among them and breaking them down. It's war though and no longer politics, that requires good will on both sides and those republicans who wish to be treated as patriots and not enemies had better put some light and air between themselves and traitors to the constitution.