Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire A close examination of the James Mattis quote

What concerns me most as a military man is not our external adversaries; it is our internal divisiveness… We are dividing into hostile tribes cheering against each other, fueled by emotion and a mutual disdain that jeopardizes our future, instead of rediscovering our common ground and finding solutions. All Americans need to recognize that our democracy is an experiment and one that can be reversed. Tribalism must not be allowed to destroy our experiment.
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James Matt is is a serious man. I have great respect for him. Nonetheless, I cannot embrace this quote.
I have no common ground with militant deviants, baby-butcher's, Bolsheviks, antifa or violent arrogant swindling race hustlers.

A tussle must play out. One side or the other must conquer and prevail over the other. Finland just prior to the winter war comes to mind. Not to insult Gen Mattis but graciously I would suggest, sir, have you really thought the issues through?

First, he needs to take a civics lesson. The Untied State of America is not a Democracy. Those that use this phrase to describe America are either totally ignorant, or are agenda driven and not in a "good" way.

Second, he is a Globalist, not good.

Third, he was a Yuge supporter of the Obama Iran nuclear deal, let that sink in.

POS, pretty much sums what he is and what he brought to the White House.

If he can't see that the bolsheviks have declared war on America with the express intention of "destroying our experiment", then he's part of the problem,

“When the only tool you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail.”

When all you’ve done is run around the world for the last 50 years, instigating “military interventions”, big surprise that you might think “military intervention” is the answer to every question.

Amen

Thing is that at his level particularly with NATO you have to be a politician, the job requires it. And day to day it makes you even more so a politician of the European bent. Can't be helped, your immersed in it and your orders are to make nice. Do you think Ike was chosen for his tactical acumen? Can you imagine Pattton as Supreme Allied Commander?

The thing that I think of when I think of our "interventions" starting with the Spanish American til now (yes that includes both world wars) is how unnecessary they were and how they have allowed the moneyed interest to put us in hock to a point where there is no way out. Now our country is dictated to by the global money system the front of which in our country is the Federal Reserve.

Anytime someone talks democracy I assume they are very ignorant or just evil.

They should be smitten!



mike r

Ha!
Yes!

He foolishly considered the Liberal communists as Americans. That was the fault in his statement.

Huge difference between a Democracy as you spelled it and "our democracy" as he used it. We are a Federal Republic and that is a variety of democracy.

Our democratic republic was no experiment in my opinion. Globalists enemies came up with that crap as they did the idea of separation of religion From govt, in order to justify flooding this nation with heathens to destroy us.

There is no common ground with those who wish us destroyed for their NWO.

This, but Trump has a plan to get us out or there would be no need to drain the swamp. Nationalize the Fed and return to the gold standard.

This thread feels like we are parsing minutia and IMO getting it wrong. Each US citizen has a LOT of common ground with every other citizen. Each of us also has differences from every other citizen. A focus on nothing but differences is a recipe for the end of the nation.

Commonalities include everyone's need for food and water, personal safety, the need to change diapers if and when we have babies (or come up with a non-diaper solution), a desire to be pain free and thousands of other common needs, wants etc. Where we differ with communists is on the solutions and how to fulfill those common needs and wants. i.e. mass shootings are a problem. What to do about them divides into totally opposite solutions.

My concern with the Mattis quote is that IME when Democrats say they want a compromise or common ground, they mean that everyone has to agree with them.