It Is Time To Face The Facts.
We Cannot Be United.
Daily Wire,
by
Matt Walsh
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/13/2020 12:38:37 PM
One of the first articles I wrote for The Daily Wire was a typically optimistic and cheerful piece titled “The United States Of America No Longer Exists.” It was not met with a warm reception by many readers, who understandably found it to be a tad bleak. Three years later, it brings me no pleasure to say, “I told you so.” My basic thesis in that piece was that our country, though existing still as a legal and geographic entity, cannot be meaningfully described as “united.” We have nothing but the law and the land holding us together anymore.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/13/2020 12:51:41 PM (No. 443500)
I no longer bother with debate, no longer speak. I am done with the left. Any interference with me by the left will be met with war. I have no desire to live in a leftist world.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rama41 6/13/2020 1:04:34 PM (No. 443524)
Matt Walsh pretty well sums it up. Should be a Must Read.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/13/2020 1:08:30 PM (No. 443531)
So, Matt Walsh, if it is mainly liberals who spread doom and gloom, why are YOU writing for Daily Wire?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/13/2020 1:15:12 PM (No. 443541)
Hasn't considered that he was wrong then and he's wrong now. If you define the USA as not being United on the basis of media noise then you are just stupid. Communist dictatorships are "united" That what you want ?
My American neighbors and I are getting along quite nicely so take your media noise and stuff it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Italiano 6/13/2020 1:32:57 PM (No. 443555)
We can only be "united" if the left leaves us alone. They won't. Our traditions, our history, what we can do and say, see on media platforms, all of it.
Let's just hit the streets and get it settled.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 6/13/2020 1:42:02 PM (No. 443562)
I get along nicely with all my neighbors. Of course they are all good-natured, law abiding white people. I am sure that there are black neighborhoods that are the same but we are all tribal to a certain degree and tend seek out those most like us. It’s an ancient defense mechanism. In those days if you ran across a different tribe or group that looked different, they would probably bash your head in. That survival instinct is still hard-wired in a remote part of our brain.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Laotzu 6/13/2020 1:46:33 PM (No. 443567)
It is not hard to see why our debates are fruitless and our conversations go nowhere. We are speaking different languages, both literally and metaphorically.
The are speaking the language of Lenin. We are speaking the language of the Greeks and the Founders. Reason is not a "thing" for them.
We are permanently divided by disagreement on a fundamental issue -- we seek to preserve our Country; they seek to destroy it.
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Sorry, Bud, the "United" applies to the states, not the people. The people have only been united in rare times, like World War 2. It is a country that is supposed to be locked in the perpetual conflict of ideas, with a do-little Federal government to maintain individual liberties from the central government. States were sovereign in most ways, subject to the constitution's enumerated powers.
The original "United States" died when the confederation of states failed due to their pursuit of state interests. It took a Constitution and George Washington to bring about order on a national level.
In the time under the Constitution the United States has suffered all sorts of ugly differences of opinion, such as in Bloody Kansas or at Harpers Ferry. We "endured" Asian and certain European immigration, where major cities had English as a second language. The Chinese and Irish needed not apply for work in many places. Ethnic and racial strife is nothing new.
What's destroying the United States is overreaching government, "doing something" other than preserving individual liberty. Over the last century, certainly since the days of Republican Teddy Roosevelt, the Federal government has expanded greatly, intruding into American life further by the day, regulating this, banning that, subsidizing whatever. It exacerbates rather than solves.
And what are modern Americans, Karen and Kyle, Monique and Kobi, Maria and Juan, going to do about that?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 6/13/2020 2:07:32 PM (No. 443587)
The problem with growing old is you remember what America once was and will never be again - I love my country - went to war for her twice. What’s being done to her now by a bunch of Commie thugs is like a knife in the gut. Donald Trump is all that stands between us and the abyss. Come November, if it has a pulse and an R beside it’s name - vote for it. This may be the last election.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
czechlist 6/13/2020 2:14:05 PM (No. 443596)
Multiculturalism leads to culture clash - no common values and the lack of a common language (Tower of Babel ?) The virtuous wealthy (Hollywood / DC) isolate themselves while demanding the rest of us just adapt and get along.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 6/13/2020 2:45:41 PM (No. 443614)
I am hopeful that the country can be split peacefully, if the liberals can be convinced to renounce their violence. Parcel off the coastal inner cities to their own independent city-states. Our vast nation should not be ruled by the elites of a few coastal urban socialist cities.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
EQKimball 6/13/2020 2:50:58 PM (No. 443616)
There is much that unites most of us as a culture. We have a number of liberal friends and family members. We find many things to agreeably share without discussing politics: Work, travel, recreation, kids, grandchildren and their schools and college majors, where we grew up and lived since then, pets, cooking, favorite restaurants, museums, national parks, sports, traffic, local personalities, best local doctors, dentists, accountants, malls, outdoor entertainment venues, cruises, music, movies, novels, our neighborhoods, local crime, great teachers we have had, shared memories, health and wellness tips and issues, investments, local parks, family activities, social and civic organizations, service clubs and charities, to name just a few. We have spent hundreds of enjoyable hours of time with people of different political views without ever getting into a political discussion. It is also great for the blood pressure.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Penney 6/13/2020 3:48:13 PM (No. 443656)
Human nature & politics seem to eventually turn big cities into ugly places for people to live and raise their families in peaceful pursuit of happiness. It shouldn't be that way and America found a way to avoid that pattern. .....That is until 0bama(D) and his lefty socialist gang(D) barged in a couple of decades ago, when peaceful America ignored the background rumors about this, 'likable,' guy, and eagerly rushed to vote for him and his dem party candidates. When the devious dems got in gear, all it took was money to buy the media, a few unions and 2 decades of public school leftist indoctrination, job losses, an illegal alien invasion, etc. and, voila! Here we are, waiting for November and praying for the peace & security to be restored to America the beautiful but knowing all too well now, we get what we vote for.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 6/13/2020 3:56:45 PM (No. 443667)
And the corruption of the FBI, DOJ, NSA, CIA, ad infonaut are just icings off the cake. There is nothing for the citizens to rely upon. POTUS is constantly fighting the Deep State, even within his own party. Good people are railroaded by the corrupt law enforcement. And now we have autonomous zones seceding from the United States, and local politicians like them to summer camps and Beach Party Bingo. If the Deep State wins this battle, they will come for our Bill of Rights. Our mother country, GB, has had numerous civil insurrections during its two thousand year life. We have had but one. Our most important one is just around the corner. I don't think it can be avoided.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
fayebeck 6/13/2020 4:12:17 PM (No. 443693)
#1 is absolutely correct. All my adult life I have heard the same debates about race, abortion, debt limits etc....it just has gotten worse with NO pushback from republicans. None. Preaching to the choir and winning debates have not had one lasting effect in America. Same words for Rush, Sean, Tucker, Levin, and Laura. There is not one new idea from any of them. The left just keeps rolling along. Stoned and not afraid of any consequences. Been this way all my life and at 84 I have no
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
fayebeck 6/13/2020 4:14:56 PM (No. 443699)
Sorry but I have no hope for America's survival as was created.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
slipstik 6/13/2020 5:34:06 PM (No. 443758)
"The problem is..."...a tangled yarn ball of different, intersecting issues.
A progressive education system for 100 years yielding ignorant morons who will believe anything, like "the government can solve every and any problem", or "boys can be girls and vice versa".
A constitutional design which has been broken by the 16th and 17th amendments.
An electorate which refuses to do its job by changing the faces of congress on a regular basis. Do you have any concept of the oxymoron "retiring from congress after 42 years"?
A society which destroys its own history, denying the how and why it is where it is now, and thinks that's a good thing.
A deep state we recently found out about. Never knew why nothing changed no matter who I voted for, until DJT that is.
A militarized police presence, running dragnet checkpoints and no knock warrants with automatic weapons and armored vehicles, kneeling on necks.
A fourth estate which has become the fifth column since the 1950's, largely at the behest of the CIA.
A huge influx of illegal aliens who will never assimilate into our culture.
A huge influx of invited aliens who will never assimilate into our culture.
A huge segment of society which persistently refuses to join the cultural matrix they've been born into for 200 years, and have been repeatedly invited into, yet insist on retaining their adhesion to public assistance and handouts.
A world government which has tried to prevent war by inextricably interlinking every nation at the atomic level, in spite of educational, cultural, traditional, and conceptual differences.
People who are so stupid, not ignorant, truly stupid, that they apologize for being what they are.
And on, and on, and on...
Understand this people, we did this to ourselves. We took our eyes off the ball and let this happen to us slowly and surely. We had the chance, and we threw it away. The great experiment is over; it failed, WE failed.
Tower of Babel, all over again.
We are lost...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Omen55 6/13/2020 6:23:48 PM (No. 443790)
Only one group walks away from this.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
CaptainLibra 6/13/2020 7:15:59 PM (No. 443823)
Read Curt Schlechter’s books starting with Peoples Republic. USA is divided into two nations — blue (both coasts) and red (flyover country). Three follow on books in the series. Very realistic and could be what we become.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Ebuilder 6/13/2020 7:26:04 PM (No. 443837)
To the Christians here: most of us agree we are in the very last days. The trigger, the sign to us, was the rebirth of Israel in our generation. From Scripture we know we can be taken out of the world at any time along with the Holy Spirit who lives in us, the part of the Trinity now restraining evil, and keeping the Antichrist from revealing himself [ever more clearly] . We are seeing a great falling away [Apostasy] even in America, which Jesus said In Matt. 24 must come before the "Tribulation" or "Test" or "Jacob's Trouble", which the Church does not go through. Many in different denominations are not in agreement. Sorry. From other Scripture we discern that a great demonic spirit, whose name BTW is Leviathan, is twisting all communication which is why liberal-socialists and and conservatives cannot understand each other, and are not united. But there is a revival coming, already started, which will restore many to a sound mind. Don't be alarmed that Trump could hold up a Bible as a unifying gesture and receive [persecution] from 2 so-called church "bishops" who are blind. Also in the last days when Israel is regathered, according to Revelation 14, she will be protected from her enemies by a nation symbolized as having "eagles wings". That is America in Revelation, and an indication that we will probably not be part of a globalist one-world government [and church] -- but still around. He will never leave us or forsake us to the end of the age who have accepted Him as our Lord. If you do NOT accept Him, like many of our leaders, you [take the mark and] go to Hell. I have seen the bottomless pit. He saved me from it. Pure horror. Please ask Him to come into your heart if you are not sure you have that relationship, and pray for the others. That is all we can do now.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
chance_232 6/13/2020 8:47:19 PM (No. 443879)
Politically, we haven't been united since 911. And that unity lasted for a whole month.
I go to work everyday, and I don't see people fighting in the aisles. People aren't clubbing each other at Walmart. Most neighborhoods are quiet and neighbors, when they do speak, usually get along or tolerate each other.
However, we have one political party working overtime to silence any opposition and impose their opinions, philosophy and dictates on the rest. That political party is rushing headlong towards embracing socialism, communism and Marxism, using fascist methods to accomplish their goals. The idealology of the left is no longer compatible with the constitutional republic as founded. Compromise by definition requires abandoning the constitution, common sense, tradition and civil rights.
I dont know if the current cold civil war war will go hot, but I can see secession gaining.
I dont believe that its possible to "fix" the problem. Not when either side can agree as to what the problem is or how to fix it. To compromise, "we" have to give up civil liberties and "they" will never be happy until they are running re-education camps.
I'm perfectly happy with the idea of breaking up the country.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Citoyen 6/13/2020 8:51:59 PM (No. 443882)
I think we're more united that most think. On just two of the issues most current in the media, toppling statues and defunding the police, majorities of all races and ethnic groups are united. A big majority don't want the statues toppled or the police defunded. What's missing, as always, is the Republican Party. With the exception of Mitt Romney groveling in public before the mob we haven't heard boo from the supposed opposition party. Where are House Minority Leader McCarthy and Senate Majority Leader McConnell? Where is big mouth Lindsey Graham who, up until the riots began, was on Sean Hannity's Fox News show nearly every day? Where are Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, arguably the best known Republican senators? Only Tom Cotton has the spine to address anything on these insane riots.
On these two issues alone the majority of USA citizens are not represented in the least. The China virus's endless economic shutdown and the chaos unleashed by what is essentially a Democratic Party mob are issues delivered to the Republicans on a silver platter. The Republicans choose to hide themselves yet somehow think that they can retake the House and keep the Senate. How so? A vacuum cannot prevail against the Democrats, evil though they are.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
or gate 6/13/2020 8:57:23 PM (No. 443885)
Tearing down peoples statues is not a good friend maker.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Safari Man 6/13/2020 9:55:25 PM (No. 443912)
We need to be 50 separate states as was originally intended. The Federal government should be an arbiter of disputes between states and provide a common defense, nothing more. There’s too much centralized power and redistribution of wealth in DC. The left wants it all and its all in one place. Redistrubute the power, let’s have 50 cultures and leave each other alone.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/13/2020 11:10:07 PM (No. 443951)
Did he thank Obama for his efforts to divide us?
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