‘Toxic' politics increase terrorism, extremism risk, DHS official says

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‘Toxic' politics increase terrorism, extremism risk, DHS official says
Story by Nikki Wentling • 1d

A"toxic political environment" has made the United States more vulnerable to acts of violence that threaten the country's social fabric, a Department of Homeland Security official warned last week.

Nicholas Rasmussen, the DHS counterterrorism coordinator, blamed prominent voices in the political arena that frame politics as zero-sum, encouraging the belief that one political party's gain is the other's loss.
 
That type of framing leads to extreme political views, some of which gain footing among military and veteran communities, and increases the chance that people will be prompted to commit violence, Rasmussen said. The DHS labels that type of threat as domestic violent extremism.

"The toxic political environment in which we live as Americans right now, and the existentialist ways in which voices in our public square frame our politics - not only zero sum terms, but the worst kind of zero sum terms - all of that leaves us far more vulnerable than ever to targeted violence here," Rasmussen said.

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I remember Pres. Ford talking about this one time.  He said they would argue, scream, swear, etc. at each other but at the end of the day they went out and played golf together.  How?  Why?  Because they all knew the debates were about what was best for a Constitutional Republic, not their individual political parties.  The same cannot be said today.  One party in particular seems to have given up on the Constitution, free enterprise, honesty, what is best for the general welfare, and replaced them with party politics.  The other party, with its rinos is not to be held harmless.  Its leadership has become largely spineless, too many of them think more of being in congress than doing what is best for the Republic.  In other words, egos come before the country.  Is it any wonder America is rotting faster than a dead cow in the desert?