Whose America Is It?

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“Apocalyptic terms” have taken over the 2020 election, with potentially dangerous implications. By Thomas B. Edsall

snip...Seth Jones, director of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, emailed me to say “there are several factors that make postelection violence likely.” The first, he wrote, is

the assumption by extremist groups from all sides — white supremacists, militias, boogaloos, anarchists, and anti-fascists to name a few — that others are prepared for violence if the election does not go their way.

All of these groups, he pointed out,

have access to firearms, incendiaries, and crude explosives. This situation is a classic “security dilemma.” Each side’s efforts to increase its own security and acquire weapons inadvertently threaten the other side....snip

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/opinion/biden-trump-2020-violence.html

The situation is becoming like the Ouroboros, each side is prepping and it seems like no matter what happens, someone is going to do something stupid and regretful. We have to be better then that, there has to be a non-violent solution, but the asshole in the whitehouse just keeps feeding his base and raising the heat. If we had a real president, one with compassion and soul, like Joe Biden, we could easily heal the wound and stifle the flames of hatred.

My biggest fear is that the divide is so entrenched that no matter who is president, the hatred and vitriol will be hard to quell. Trump has made it a very difficult task to bring America back, but Joe is up to the challenge.