What makes America special

Without any sources to back up the events you are claiming happened then you are lying.  It really is that simple.

Here I looked it up for you..  link

“Peaceful Transfer of Power: A Democratic Mandate”

From the article

Background

You probably know about elections - a vital democratic process in which voters select one candidate over another to serve in political office. Because elections are a critical mechanism for citizens to choose their leaders, they are necessary for any representative democracy. But no one is re-elected forever. What happens when a sitting representative retires, gets voted out of office, or reaches their term limit?

Explanation

When one representative leaves office for any reason, there is always a transition period wherein a new leader takes their place. In other forms of government, this transition might involve violence or war as different factions fight over who deserves governmental control. In democracies, however, there is supposed to be what is called a peaceful transfer of power.

Definition

A peaceful transfer of power is the process of existing leadership conceding power and passing governmental control onto their successor, usually a newly elected representative. As the word “peaceful” suggests, this process is nonviolent and free of conflict, and recognizes the right of the people to select their leaders.

How It Works

In the United States, presidential candidates typically start the planning process for taking control of government early, often months before they have even won the election. This usually involves the formation of a presidential “transition team,” which vets prospective appointees, develops a preliminary policy agenda, establishes relationships with Congress and executive agencies, and determines initial priorities for action, among other things. After the election, the transition team begins hiring staff for the president-elect and making the necessary preparations for taking over government operations. The official presidential transfer of power takes place during the inauguration, a ceremony in which the president-elect is sworn into office, usually by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The inauguration is typically followed by an inaugural address from the new president, a signing ceremony to mark the first official actions taken by the new administration, a celebratory luncheon, and a military procession to conclude the festivities.

History

When George Washington stepped down as president after two terms in office, he established an important precedent - that American leaders would make way for their successors, whoever they may be. John Adams made this tradition official when he left the White House shortly before the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson, who had defeated Adams in his bid for re-election. This was the first time that an American president directly conceded power to their political rival following an election, and it established the peaceful transfer of power as a hallmark of the United States government.

In John Adams’ time, presidential inaugurations occurred on March 4th following the November elections of the previous year. The Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution shortened the transition time by setting a new date for presidential administrations to end: January 20th. The Presidential Transition Act of 1963 established a formal process for transferring executive powers from one administration to another. One of its provisions requires that executive agencies designate an official to be in charge of transition planning and implementing succession plans. Additionally, the Act requires the establishment of both a White House Transition Coordinating Council and an Agency Transition Directors Council that unite high-level authorities such as members of the Cabinet and officials from the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Government Ethics, and others. Finally, the General Services Administration must coordinate transition planning across agencies and act as a liaison between transition teams and the federal government, specifically through its appointed Federal Transition Coordinator position. The Presidential Transition Act has been amended several times to expand on the procedures necessary to ensure that the government continues to run smoothly while new leadership takes over.

Why Care?

The successful transfer of power is a key element in a stable representative democracy. Without the peaceful transition from one leader to another, voting rights would be violated and the will of the people would not be recognized, subverting the principles of our government. In the absence of a peaceful transfer of power, we risk what is known as democratic backsliding - an erosion of the quality or integrity of our democracy that undermines our political institutions. It is our responsibility as citizens to ensure that the transfer of power is not seen as a suggestion or a luxury for presidential administrations, but as a collective expectation and a democratic mandate.”

No, what I said is the Left is not morally superior since they DO commit violence. And they're not gracious at loosing. 
YOU ALL tried to dismiss that by citing numbers. Despite your repeated attempts to dismiss the above, it still stands true.

from the horse’s pixie’s mouth:


YOU are the one who brought comparative numbers into the discussion.

Then you went on to say “the left is just as guilty of mass violence …. ”

No, actually, we aren’t nearly as prone to violence as the right. And when our outliers do get violent, we decry the violence, we don’t call them great patriots.

So please stop claiming we are misconstruing your statements.

Irony is not dead. How can you type that with a straight face? Trump lost and invented a lie that is being perpetuated to this day. Many people are bad losers. I don’t think that it’s a left/right thing. But Trump takes the cake for being the biggest sore loser ever.

Just stop.

Disagreeing with your assessment that the Left is virtuous and the Right is evil does not make me a troll.
Smearing those with opposing opinion vs. arguing the topic, is not honest-to-goodness dialogue on your part. 

Let's look at the facts about the transition of power.

Hilary Clinton conceded the night of the election.
The Obama administration invited Trump to the White House, cooperated fully with the transition team, included him in briefings.
Only 1 Democratic representative objected to the certification of the election.


Trump never conceded.  
Trump blocked access to the Biden transition team and denied access to daily briefings.
Trump filed 60 court cases full of lies.
His team prepared a power point for how to overturn an election.
He pressured Pence to object to the certification of votes.
He personally called the Georgia governor and secretary of state to pressure them to find 11,000 votes.
He attempted to interfere with the Michigan state certification of the votes and invited Michigan state representatives to the White House to pressure them.
He tried to pressure the legislature in Pennsylvania to appoint electors loyal to him.
127 Republican representatives objected to the certification of the vote
A year later, Trump continues to push the big lie about election fraud despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Can you really say with a straight face that the Democrats are not gracious at losing AND neglect to call out the Republicans for their adversarial, antagonistic, hostile, dangerous, violent behavior?

Trump may be the biggest sore loser ever, but that doesn't mean the Left was gracious in their loss. 

This was what you said…

“Hundreds arrested for storming the capitol on January 6th and hundreds arrested for violently protesting Trump defies your claim of immorality on one side only.

The Left is just as guilty of mass violence in several instances -just in the last few years, despite the claim of your OP.”


This is “your link” that was dated 1-20-2017




Other then saying there were “violent protests in the DC area” it offers no details of how many there were.

Then you go on to say “the left is guilty of mass violence in several instances- JUST IN THE LAST FEW YEARS”

So unless the outlet for in link has a crystal ball and can see into the future the protests in your link were for the DC area on the date of the tweet which is 1-20-2017.

So what “mass violence in several instances - just in the last few years “ are you talking about?  

This must be the 5th time I have asked this question and you keep dancing around it by claiming you provided a link.  Which is a tweet using less then 240 characters to say there were “violent protests throughout the DC area after dumpster don was sworn in as president”. Which was on January 20, 2017.

So are the “ mass violence in several instances- just in the last few years” the protests that happened in the DC area on 1-20-2017?

Or are you talking about other protests because if you are, you are not providing any details when asked but expect us to “take your word for it”.  

So which is it?

And when people “don’t take your word for it” you start acting like a victim.

Win was the wrong word.  A better term is “to make your point”.

The current point you are trying to make is the left is just as violent as the right when it comes to protests but offer very little details other then a single tweet about protests that happened on a single day.  

And from what zima has said, it may not have been the left behind those violent protests that happen on 1-20-2017. Which you seem to be ignoring.

This is my opinion.  I’m not a fan of protests for a lot of reasons.  Having said that what trump supporters did on January 6, 2021 when they attacked the Capital to stop the certification of a legal election and possibly kill the Vice President and Speaker of the House is far more damaging to this country then any previous “violent” protest by the right or the left to date.  If you do not understand that, it says a lot about you and not necessarily in a good way.

And you will never make a “valid point” if you continue to do comparisons using trump, his supporters or Republicans in Congress or state government.  Because the goal of trump and Republicans is to grab power anyway they can, keep it at the expense of the country and trump’s supporters are complicit.  And the reason you will never make one of your “valid points” is because, once again, in modern times no one in the past or now have come close to doing the crap this crowd is doing and attempting to do.  And once again, if you don’t understand that…

By the way, do you now understand what “peaceful transfer of power” means?

And you don’t know when to walk away. You could have made what you felt was your “valid point” and walked away several posts ago.  But yet here you still are.

Actually I’ve gotten pretty good at walking away.  And I’m going to do it now.  Posting this and I won’t be back to this thread.  Time to move on.

Hillary was not gracious. Oh, she said all the right things in her concession speech. But then, she called Trump an illegitimate president. She was whining embarrassingly on a video conference BEFORE she even lost about not being 50 points ahead. She wrote a book whining about her loss. She went on a blame game tour to whine and blame every thing and everyone ELSE for her loss. People got sick of hearing her whine about her loss. She's still publicly whining about it almost a year after Trump has been out of office. That's not gracious, that's a sore loser. 

Stacey Abrams, Andrew Gillum, Bill Nelson... all sore losers.

Lol, just not as sore a loser as Trump. I mean, at least she wasn’t at the center of a Capitol riot. Ok, Democrats can be sore losers. I guess that the difference for me is that they are not actively trying to circumvent elections in order to make sure that their preferred candidate wins.