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The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave:

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Found this article......Is this just doomsayer nonsense? Or is Trump behind all this? What I do understand as an outsider, is that the USA's enemies must be rubbing their hands in glee, at the prospect.....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/09/is-the-us-really-heading-for-a-second-civil-war

Is the US really heading for a second civil war?With the country polarised and Republicans embracing authoritarianism, some experts fear a Northern Ireland-style insurgency but others say armed conflict remains improbable

Joe Biden had spent a year in the hope that America could go back to normal. But last Thursday, the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol, the president finally recognised the full scale of the current threat to American democracy.

“At this moment, we must decide,” Biden said in Statuary Hall, where rioters had swarmed a year earlier. “What kind of nation are we going to be? Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?”

It is a question that many inside America and beyond are now asking. In a deeply divided society, where even a national tragedy such as 6 January only pushed people further apart, there is fear that that day was the just the beginning of a wave of unrest, conflict and domestic terrorism.

A slew of recent opinion polls shows a significant minority of Americans at ease with the idea of violence against the government. Even talk of a second American civil war has gone from fringe fantasy to media mainstream.

more at link...............

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My greatest fear is that some of the nuts that also inhabit the Great Southern Land, will play copy cat as they have done before.  

There is no land of the free, it's the home of the entitled... 

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