American political violence — Is there an off-ramp?

[UNCatTech]

Think about it, he actually has a point.

Many love to make the I'll die on this hill claims about certain topics.

Why do we have to die on any hill. Nothing is binary, so we should be able to find agreements and come to a consensus on disagreements that allow both to find some solace and not die.

 

[UNCatTech]

He didn’t win any states

Yea, but at one point he was doing very well until he decided to drop out and then come back. He never regained that momentum.

 

[Zoo_View]

1. Why not just replace the Supreme Court? Limit its jurisdiction to nothing, and create a new "inferior" court that will be the last word on all decisions and empowered by Congress to overturn Supreme Court decisions.

2. You can't sue Fox News for defamation every day. There needs to be criminal prohibition, or at least a civilly enforceable financial penalty imposed unconnected to damages.

3. We're going to need a new constitution. I mean, we needed a new constitution a decade and a half ago. But seeing as how almost none of it is functioning well, we need some structural changes.

We needed a new Constitution in 1865…….

 

[Mulberry Heel]

I probably agree with you, but the effort has to be made. The alternative is blood in the streets.

I'm not saying don't try, only that I'm skeptical of how effective it's going to be. But one can always hope for the best.

 

[DougDaBroadcasta]

The last available off-ramp, IMHO, is when Trump is no longer in office. And the GQP has to make the concessions because of the damage he is causing, as well as their right wing media networks.

But there is too much money to be made in hate. So that's not going to happen.

The youth are trending further left and further right than previous generations. It used to be the left just trended that way, but now we have the Christian Nationalists and the Groypers taking the extreme to the youth in the right wing. And it doesn't look like either side will bend.

The old people are brainwashed by Fox News and will never understand the politics they've allowed to fester due to them finding "real news." Centrists are checking out psychologically, because they serve no purpose anymore. They'll vote for whatever they see as the lesser of two evils, but the polarization of politics in this nation is broken, and will continue to break, until we can have a real, unifying presence.