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Originally Posted by SIRE1 (Post 1852397)

I hate to say it, but after reading all of the replies from this one thread it would appear as if the Florida National Guard may have to be called to The Villages !!!! Are we going to go back to the "Friendliest Home Town" after this election or is our community going to be so divided we all won't even be able to go to the same Rec Center again? There is so much bitterness in these replies that it reminds me of my history classes when we learned about the events leading up to the Civil War where it was brother against brother and neighbor against neighbor. I can see it now, before you can enter a pool you will have to show your voter registration card indicating a D or an R instead of your Villager ID. For me, I'm voting for Jimmy Buffett for President !!!!! :icon_wink:

CV is causing an acceleration of change according to History experts. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer - this was basically caused by Federal tax policy. CV has accelerated that wealth disparity. Even the bubble of TV Land has been affected....polarized. Sometimes over minute and non-productive issues, like wearing masks. Bizzare ideas of conspiracy are being circulated. A lot of the strangeness and hostility started as a backlash against the 1st Black President. Society got into a whiplash of the left of center against the right of center. The next months until Jan 20th is going to be filled with some magnitude (large or small) of drama and unrest. Hopefully, the pendulum will swing back to a moderate middle.

A few months ago a columnist from the Irish Times wrote this.....

"“Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity,”

Did an Irish Times Column Express 'Pity' for the US?

then this from the Pittsburgh newspaper

Timothy Egan: The world is taking pity on us | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

In Germany....

US election 2020: Why it matters so much to Germans - BBC News

In Canada...

"TORONTO -- Canadians’ opinions of their neighbour and biggest trading partner sank to record lows over the past year, with more than three in five Canadians holding an unfavourable view of the United States and a growing minority who see the country as an enemy, according to the Environics Institute survey, Focus Canada, published on Thursday."

https://www.ctv

You can travel the globe and we are not respected any longer as a leader or in anyway

Thread has gone political - closed.