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Ex-CIA chief rates today's Republicans as most 'dangerous' political force in history
by Daniel Chaitin, Deputy News Editor |
 | August 17, 2022 09:09 PM
 | Updated Aug 17, 2022, 09:11 PM

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden endorsed the assessment that Republicans today are the most "dangerous" political force in history.

Edward Luce, the U.S. national editor and columnist at the Financial Times, got the ball rolling Wednesday in a Twitter exchange that comes at a time when the Republican Party has largely rallied behind former President Donald Trump.

"I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close," Luce said.

Hayden quote tweeted the observation, writing, "I agree. And I was the CIA Director."


https://twitter.com/GenMhayden/status/1560027626626072577

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Now to me this sounds like a declaration of war. Not sure what else to call it. Like, they're worse than the Nazis. People who just happen to disagree with them.

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Ex-CIA chief rates today's Republicans as most 'dangerous' political force in history
by Daniel Chaitin, Deputy News Editor |
 | August 17, 2022 09:09 PM
 | Updated Aug 17, 2022, 09:11 PM

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden endorsed the assessment that Republicans today are the most "dangerous" political force in history.

Edward Luce, the U.S. national editor and columnist at the Financial Times, got the ball rolling Wednesday in a Twitter exchange that comes at a time when the Republican Party has largely rallied behind former President Donald Trump.

"I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close," Luce said.

Hayden quote tweeted the observation, writing, "I agree. And I was the CIA Director."


https://twitter.com/GenMhayden/status/1560027626626072577

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Now that's enough right there to scare the crap out of you.

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I don’t see how we can reconcile the current chasm in the American population. It’s just too deep and wide.

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A British writer... I can understand his concern... We have been down this road with them before.

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" today's Republicans as most 'dangerous' political force in history".......If only.

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A British writer... I can understand his concern... We have been down this road with them before.

The concern is more with the retired U.S. CIA director's comment.

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I don’t see how we can reconcile the current chasm in the American population. It’s just too deep and wide.

I don't enjoy being the bearer of bad news, but the divide is irreconcilable.

There is going to be a conflict and a consequent division of some sort. It may not be war, but it will change everything we have known, regardless.
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I don't enjoy being the bearer of bad news, but the divide is irreconcilable.

There is going to be a conflict and a consequent division of some sort. It may not be war, but it will change everything we have known, regardless.

I'm very afraid that's true @andy58-in-nh
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I don't enjoy being the bearer of bad news, but the divide is irreconcilable.

There is going to be a conflict and a consequent division of some sort. It may not be war, but it will change everything we have known, regardless.

Much of our country has already been transformed.  The Great Reset is happening.  I think it is inevitable that there will be some kind of resistance.  To what degree, I'm not sure.
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aligncare wrote (wisely):
"I don’t see how we can reconcile the current chasm in the American population. It’s just too deep and wide."

Once again, "Lurker's admonition":
"Peaceful coexistence with the left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is."

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andy predicts:
"I don't enjoy being the bearer of bad news, but the divide is irreconcilable.
There is going to be a conflict and a consequent division of some sort. It may not be war, but it will change everything we have known, regardless."


And Bigun responds:
"I'm very afraid that's true"

Fishrrman:
It IS true.
And... such conflict/division should be prepared for. It is not for the other side to resolve -- it is up to US to do so.

Back in the 1770's, when the Colonists realized the same "irreconcilable divide", they took the first steps toward resolving it -- by calling for an assembly of delegates from the aggrieved colonies.

They met first in 1774, and then again in 1775, creating a body that forged a new direction for the colonies, documents never-before-seen in the world, leading to "a Declaration", a conflict, and an entirely new nation with a new form of government.

Those assemblies were (of course) known as The Continental Congress.
Without them, we probably would not have had the guidance that produced the United States as it lasted for 200+ years.

And Andy's prediction above is exactly why we should be thinking of convening a NEW Continental Congress, with delegates (again) from "the aggrieved states", to discuss what is coming and what must be done in response to it.

Wasn't it Ben Franklin who drew this?

The "Heartland States" must re-join into a new entity.
Or else wither and die under the weight of democrat-communism imposed from the Washington DC government.

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What about Communists and German American Bund?  They were dangerous forces in American political history.

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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

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So, the former head of an agency restricted by law to acting outside of the US admits being a hyper-partisan.

That's a statement of fact, not a mis-punctuated question.
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It's clear to me now that the plan is after the November elections, after the GOPe throws it to the Rats, is basically for them to jettison the GOP and start a new party.  And they'll take all their money with them, leaving the Trump GOP as a shell.  That's their nuclear option, and I am convinced they will do it.

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So, the former head of an agency restricted by law to acting outside of the US admits being a hyper-partisan.

That's a statement of fact, not a mis-punctuated question.

Exactly.