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    Bitterly Divided America At Crossroads: Will America Choose Civil War Or World War Or Global Peace?
    Bitterly Divided America At Crossroads: Will America Choose Civil War Or World War Or Global Peace?
    Bitterly Divided America At Crossroads: Will America Choose Civil War Or World War Or Global Peace?
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    Bitterly Divided America At Crossroads: Will America Choose Civil War Or World War Or Global Peace?

    By Terry Nettle

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    Black swan President Trump managed to turn America upside down in the short span of his 4-years reign. He sharpened social conflicts, and severely stressed crucial international relations to the extent that he was literally pushing the world to the brink of WW3. The 2020 US presidential election therefore represented a critical junction of modern history, a fork in the road, for both America and the whole world.

     

    This book highlights the terrible death tolls of the two world wars and the 1918 and the 2020 pandemics. It notes that ironically, it was Trump's epic and egoistic mishandling of the pandemic in America that truly sunk his re-election bid. This fortuitous averting of WW3 was a remarkable outcome that spared USA, Taiwan, China, and the whole world the unimaginable devastation of a total war and deadly disease.

     

    The immediate post-Trump period in 2021 will be a time to reset the US Covid-19 control policies, as well as to repair the damages caused by Trumpian nationalism, fractured trade and international relations, and the dangerous policies towards China, Iran and North Korea. The challenges facing the new Biden administration is therefore great and would require careful balancing of the priorities of the deeply divided US politics.

     

    Because of the deeply divided US politics and public opinion, the danger of the eventual breakup of USA into a Republic of America and a Democratic Republic of America is a real one. Ironically, this could be averted if the xenophobic Congress bipartisanship were to decide to use a disastrous world war to divert all the public discontent and grievances. As events develop, USA could well find itself fighting a civil war, devastated in a world war, or enjoying world peace.

     

    In the longer term, the building of a new and better USA would requires much greater effort and sustained social and political reconciliation within the country. The dangerous blue red divide must be bridged. This book considers the need for USA to set up a National Commission for Change to chart the necessary changes in US politics, foreign relations and practices, to review the dangers of social media, and to study necessary constitutional amendments. If these are done right, future America will be stronger and better able to achieve lasting peace and prosperity for USA and the whole world.

     

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTerry Nettle
    Release dateDec 3, 2020
    ISBN9781393338468
    Bitterly Divided America At Crossroads: Will America Choose Civil War Or World War Or Global Peace?

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      Bitterly Divided America At Crossroads - Terry Nettle

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1. 2020 US Presidential Election

      Chapter 2. Trump's Rigged Election Theatrics

      Chapter 3. The Outcome

      Chapter 4. Dangers Ahead

      Chapter 5. The Trumped Years

      Chapter 6. The Pandemic Factor

      Chapter 7. Deadly World Wars and Pandemics

      Chapter 8. The Convenient Voting Factor

      Chapter 9. The Racial Factor

      Chapter 10. Fate of Taiwan

      Chapter 11. The Irony of US Democracy

      Chapter 12. The Built-in Volatile Blue Red Divide in US Politics

      Chapter 13. Trumped USA

      Chapter 14. What If

      Chapter 15. Election Night Drama

      Chapter 16. Unreliable Opinion Polls

      Chapter 17. A Divided Nation

      Chapter 18. Seed of Resentment

      Chapter 19. USA in ICU

      Chapter 20. Immediate Post-Trump Period 2021

      Chapter 21. Covid-19 Policies

      Chapter 22. Vaccines Politics and Conspiracy Theories

      Chapter 23. Deadly Trajectories

      Chapter 24. Trumpian Nationalism

      Chapter 25. Change Needed

      Chapter 26. Confused Allies and Friends

      Chapter 27. China Phobia

      Chapter 28. Bifurcation Attempt

      Chapter 29. US Bipartisan Approach

      Chapter 30. Danger of USA Breakup

      Chapter 31. The China Enigma

      Chapter 32. The Rest of the World

      Chapter 33. Building A New Better USA

      Chapter 34. National Commission for Change

      Chapter 35. US Political System and Politics

      Chapter 36. Foreign Relations

      Chapter 37. Cogent Foreign Policy

      Chapter 38. Interventionist Policies

      Chapter 39. UN Reform

      Chapter 40. Professionalism and Respect in Foreign Relations

      Chapter 41. Dangers of Social Media

      Chapter 42. Dubious Human Rights Issues

      Chapter 43. Constitutional Amendments

      Chapter 44. Difficult Road Ahead

      Chapter 45. The Big Picture of An America At Crossroads

      Chapter 46. A Healed America In Dangerous Global Ideological Confrontation

      Chapter 47. A Broken America In Civil War And World War

      Chapter 48. A Successful America And World Peace

      Chapter 49. Future America

      Chapter 1. 2020 US Presidential Election

      The US presidential election of 2020 saw a deeply polarized America witnessing the no holds barred fight between Trump and Biden, two presidential candidates with very different temperaments and politics. After four years of the erratic Trump rule, most opinion polls point to a large swing against Trump. But, what actually happened surprised almost everybody. It turned out to be a cliffhanger of a very close fight between the two candidates. It really revealed the great schism in American society and politics. It also highlighted how disunited the United States of America has become, and the enormously difficult task of healing a Trumped America.

      This final results of the election did not come quickly. It was preceded by the high drama of an extraordinarily dizzy roller-coaster ride of the vote counts, with rapidly changing trend of the votes counted on the election night of Nov 3 and the days after. Most dramatically, it quickly degenerated into days of verbal jousting and legal manoeuvres which began on Nov 4 with president Trump quickly claiming election victory when the emerging voting results were just starting to turn against him.

      Chapter 2. Trump's Rigged Election Theatrics

      In the theatrics of the extraordinary TV broadcast to the nation from the White House in the wee hours of Nov 4, president Trump went on in his typical rambling self-promoting style to allege a major election fraud. It was a naked attempt to rally his supporters to dispute the emerging results:

      "And I want to thank the American people for their tremendous support, millions and millions of people voted for us tonight. And a very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group of people and we won’t stand for it. We will not stand for it......And we were getting ready for a big celebration. We were winning everything and all of a sudden it was just called off. The results tonight have been phenomenal and we are getting ready... I mean, literally we were just all set to get outside and just celebrate something that was so beautiful, so good. Such a vote, such a success to citizens of this country have come out in record numbers. This is a record. There’s never been anything like it to support our incredible movement. We won states that we weren’t expected to win.....

      "And all of a sudden everything just stopped. This is a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election. We did win this election. So our goal now is to ensure the integrity for the good of this

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