Olive branchy? The Dems have come right out attacking the left. (As it so happens, the first shots are from a "moderate" Dem formerly of the CIA.)
I would not rate one's "own intelligence agencies" as a superior source of authority in political matters; their participation in politics at all is not a sign of health.
Like it or not, conservatives are partners in governance, and the Dems could end up a minority in the Senate.
The bigger picture is one of imperial decline, with direct challenges in the next decade where the US is unlikely to retain military hegemony in Asia-Pacific and central Asia, with former allies possibly splitting off into new coalitions. All within increasing climate change driven stressors of extreme weather, water/food shortages, mass migrations of refugees, and perhaps ireversible warming that conservative institutions (military and finance) have decided ae locked in at +3-4 degrees Celsius.
It would be interesting to hear ex/evangelical takes on America in the world from this standpoint and not just the -isms that appear to menace domestic politics with cruelties that pale in comparison to those the US projects outward to the world as a matter of bipartisan militarism and consumer greed.
Olive branchy? The Dems have come right out attacking the left. (As it so happens, the first shots are from a "moderate" Dem formerly of the CIA.)
I would not rate one's "own intelligence agencies" as a superior source of authority in political matters; their participation in politics at all is not a sign of health.
Like it or not, conservatives are partners in governance, and the Dems could end up a minority in the Senate.
The bigger picture is one of imperial decline, with direct challenges in the next decade where the US is unlikely to retain military hegemony in Asia-Pacific and central Asia, with former allies possibly splitting off into new coalitions. All within increasing climate change driven stressors of extreme weather, water/food shortages, mass migrations of refugees, and perhaps ireversible warming that conservative institutions (military and finance) have decided ae locked in at +3-4 degrees Celsius.
It would be interesting to hear ex/evangelical takes on America in the world from this standpoint and not just the -isms that appear to menace domestic politics with cruelties that pale in comparison to those the US projects outward to the world as a matter of bipartisan militarism and consumer greed.