my primary reason for posting this is an image about a quarter of the way down of an image of a hunter ash post with the image of the woman who couldn't really believe the answers she was getting from the famous blue jean star. the message there is something i could recognize from my days living with the hippies. most folk on that side of the 'divide' believe everything said in that image;

When asked in 2020 if the United States was going to have a civil war over the election, Scott Adams replied, “No, because we don’t want one.”  Well, according to a recent Politico® poll, we expect one.  55% of those polled expected political violence to increase.  And, by my reckoning, there’s no real reason to not expect more violence.

There is a reason for this.

Increasingly, the norms that we expect from those that win an election have been subverted, and the “loyal” opposition is now just the opposition.  This isn’t new, dating back at least to Reagan’s administration.  But each election it swings farther, especially on the GloboLeft side............more.........