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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Fri May 12, 2017, 03:00 PM May 2017

How does this end? (REDUX)

Can the most powerful nation in the world stay in a constant state of crisis? If you think of a nation as a person can a person stay in a constant state of agitation with his or her adrenaline constantly pumping?

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How does this end? (REDUX) (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 OP

The US was in a near constant state of crisis from 1929-1945 Thomas Hurt May 2017 #1

But you never had a president who created chaos for the sake of creating chaos. DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 #2

It is not the duration of the crisis ... but the extent of the damage done as a result of the crisis MedusaX May 2017 #3

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)

1. The US was in a near constant state of crisis from 1929-1945

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Fri May 12, 2017, 03:05 PM

May 2017

from 1861-1865, the Cold War, the counter culture and Vietnam War

WWI....and so on.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

2. But you never had a president who created chaos for the sake of creating chaos.

Reply to Thomas Hurt (Reply #1)

Fri May 12, 2017, 03:09 PM

May 2017

He thrives on it. I have to believe it will exhaust members of his party.

MedusaX

(1,129 posts)

3. It is not the duration of the crisis ... but the extent of the damage done as a result of the crisis

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Fri May 12, 2017, 03:45 PM

May 2017

that matters....

There is no genuinely comparable crisis to use as a reference.

In roughly 120 days, every founding principle has been tested, every division of government has been infiltrated, and every expectation of integrity based representation by elected officials has been pissed on.

A threat to our democracy, and our residents, is currently posed by the independent and collective measures employed by both
a foreign government and our own domestic government.

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