Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 14:15:32 GMT
"The angry and the demonstrating are loud and visible; their opponents are angry and quiet.
The election will reveal not just who is more numerous -- but sadly also who is the angriest."
www.zerohedge.com/markets/2020-election-will-be-contest-angry?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29
The election will reveal not just who is more numerous -- but sadly also who is the angriest."
For nearly a month, the nation has been consumed by massive protests and chronic riots, looting and arson.
The catalyst for the demonstrations -- the violent and wrongful death of African American George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police -- is itself fading from connections with the ensuing upheavals.
Statues are toppled. Names are abruptly changed. Careers cancelled.
Police are both reviled -- and walking off the job. Retired generals are no longer seen as conservative traditionalists but radicals themselves who dare to take on the commander-in-chief.
Downtown Seattle is no longer in the control of the city government.
The internet is aflame with self-appointed sleuths. They scour hours of video, and millions of words, searching for an indiscreet past remark -- as fodder to take out a political opponent, a rival for a job or a personal enemy.
The people's energy, tranquilized by a two-month national quarantine and terror of the coronavirus, has suddenly exploded in both massive protests and silent seething at the lawlessness.
The result is that for good or evil, the 2020 election is no longer really about Biden and Trump, Democratic or Republican policies, or progressive and conservative agendas.
Receive a daily recap featuring a curated list of must-read stories.
No, it is now about America as it has been before May 2020 -- always flawed, but constantly improving, and not perfect but far better than the alternatives -- and what has now followed.
Much of the country believes that America is racist, cruel and incapable of self-correction of its so-called original sins -- without a radical erasure of much of its past history, traditions and customs.
It sees occasional violence as a necessary stimulant of long overdue change. It argues that the American founding focus on liberty and freedom as increasingly selfish and incompatible with social justice and equality.
Racism, the protesting left says, is in the American DNA. It finally requires massive cutting, chemotherapy and radiation -- treatment that deservedly will sicken and may even kill the host.
The other half of the country will vote to preserve what is under attack. They feel that the dreamy world of the demonstrators and rioters is an Orwellian vision far worse than the present reality that they are protesting.
America in their view is the world's only large, successful multiracial democracy. It is the dream destination of the world's immigrants -- precisely because its ancient institutions adapt and change for the better, but only if they are preserved and allowed to work.
The catalyst for the demonstrations -- the violent and wrongful death of African American George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police -- is itself fading from connections with the ensuing upheavals.
Statues are toppled. Names are abruptly changed. Careers cancelled.
Police are both reviled -- and walking off the job. Retired generals are no longer seen as conservative traditionalists but radicals themselves who dare to take on the commander-in-chief.
Downtown Seattle is no longer in the control of the city government.
The internet is aflame with self-appointed sleuths. They scour hours of video, and millions of words, searching for an indiscreet past remark -- as fodder to take out a political opponent, a rival for a job or a personal enemy.
The people's energy, tranquilized by a two-month national quarantine and terror of the coronavirus, has suddenly exploded in both massive protests and silent seething at the lawlessness.
The result is that for good or evil, the 2020 election is no longer really about Biden and Trump, Democratic or Republican policies, or progressive and conservative agendas.
Receive a daily recap featuring a curated list of must-read stories.
No, it is now about America as it has been before May 2020 -- always flawed, but constantly improving, and not perfect but far better than the alternatives -- and what has now followed.
Much of the country believes that America is racist, cruel and incapable of self-correction of its so-called original sins -- without a radical erasure of much of its past history, traditions and customs.
It sees occasional violence as a necessary stimulant of long overdue change. It argues that the American founding focus on liberty and freedom as increasingly selfish and incompatible with social justice and equality.
Racism, the protesting left says, is in the American DNA. It finally requires massive cutting, chemotherapy and radiation -- treatment that deservedly will sicken and may even kill the host.
The other half of the country will vote to preserve what is under attack. They feel that the dreamy world of the demonstrators and rioters is an Orwellian vision far worse than the present reality that they are protesting.
America in their view is the world's only large, successful multiracial democracy. It is the dream destination of the world's immigrants -- precisely because its ancient institutions adapt and change for the better, but only if they are preserved and allowed to work.
www.zerohedge.com/markets/2020-election-will-be-contest-angry?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29
