Posted on 02/25/2019 2:45:39 AM PST by RoosterRedux
It is time for our society to acknowledge a sad truth: America is currently fighting its second Civil War.
In fact, with the obvious and enormous exception of attitudes toward slavery, Americans are more divided morally, ideologically and politically today than they were during the Civil War. For that reason, just as the Great War came to be known as World War I once there was World War II, the Civil War will become known as the First Civil War when more Americans come to regard the current battle as the Second Civil War.
This Second Civil War, fortunately, differs in another critically important way: It has thus far been largely nonviolent. But given increasing left-wing violence, such as riots, the taking over of college presidents’ offices and the illegal occupation of state capitols, nonviolence is not guaranteed to be a permanent characteristic of the Second Civil War.
There are those on both the left and right who call for American unity. But these calls are either naive or disingenuous. Unity was possible between the right and liberals, but not between the right and the left.
Liberalism — which was anti-left, pro-American and deeply committed to the Judeo-Christian foundations of America; and which regarded the melting pot as the American ideal, fought for free speech for its opponents, regarded Western civilization as the greatest moral and artistic human achievement and viewed the celebration of racial identity as racism — is now affirmed almost exclusively on the right and among a handful of people who don’t call themselves conservative.
The left, however, is opposed to every one of those core principles of liberalism.
Like the left in every other country, the left in America essentially sees America as a racist, xenophobic, colonialist, imperialist, warmongering, money-worshipping, moronically religious nation.
Just as in Western Europe, the left in America seeks to erase America’s Judeo-Christian foundations. The melting pot is regarded as nothing more than an anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-Hispanic meme. The left suppresses free speech wherever possible for those who oppose it, labeling all non-left speech “hate speech.” To cite only one example, if you think Shakespeare is the greatest playwright or Bach is the greatest composer, you are a proponent of dead white European males and therefore racist.
Without any important value held in common, how can there be unity between left and non-left? Obviously, there cannot.
There will be unity only when the left vanquishes the right or the right vanquishes the left. Using the First Civil War analogy, American unity was achieved only after the South was vanquished and slavery was abolished.
How are those of us who oppose left-wing nihilism — there is no other word for an ideology that holds Western civilization and America’s core values in contempt — supposed to unite with “educators” who instruct elementary school teachers to cease calling their students “boys” and “girls” because that implies gender identity? With English departments that don’t require reading Shakespeare in order to receive a degree in English? With those who regard virtually every war America has fought as imperialist and immoral? With those who regard the free market as a form of oppression? With those who want the state to control as much of American life as possible? With those who repeatedly tell America and its black minority that the greatest problems afflicting black Americans are caused by white racism, “white privilege” and “systemic racism”? With those who think that the nuclear family ideal is inherently misogynistic and homophobic? With those who hold that Israel is the villain in the Middle East? With those who claim that the term “Islamic terrorist” is an expression of religious bigotry?
The third significant difference between the First and Second Civil Wars is that in the Second Civil war, one side has been doing nearly all the fighting. That is how it has been able to take over schools — from elementary schools, to high schools, to universities — and indoctrinate America’s young people; how it has taken over nearly all the news media; and how it has taken over entertainment media.
The conservative side has lost on every one of these fronts because it has rarely fought back with anything near the ferocity with which the left fights. Name a Republican politician who has run against the left as opposed to running solely against his or her Democratic opponent. And nearly all American conservatives, people who are proud of America and affirm its basic tenets, readily send their children to schools that indoctrinate their children against everything the parents hold precious. A mere handful protest when their child’s teacher ceases calling their son a boy or their daughter a girl, or makes “slave owner” the defining characteristic of the Founding Fathers.
With the defeat of the left in the last presidential election, the defeat of the left in two-thirds of the gubernatorial elections and the defeat of the left in a majority of House and Senate elections, this is likely the last chance liberals, conservatives and the right have to defeat the American left. But it will not happen until these groups understand that we are fighting for the survival of America no less than the Union troops were in the First Civil War.
Do the right thing and cut her off from everything of yours, except an occasional “I love you!”
This will be made perfectly clear to the lefty loonies when the shooting war begins, and they struggle within for leadership (and power). You will then see mass migrations away from their side, but to where, who knows. Fragmentation and disarray will destroy them.
It causes much heated discussion, but so long as the country is divided down the middle, it's hard for any party to push much of its agenda through.
Presidents usually have the ability to push through one thing before they lose control of Congress and the electorate tires of them - Obama with health care, Bush with his war, Clinton with getting elected, maybe Trump with immigration.
If anything happens to break the stalemate, we may be in trouble, but both parties are unstable coalitions which tend to break down if they push for too much.
If Americans work the politics skillfully we can avoid civil war, but if people give up on the process entirely, that's when we run into trouble.
Good points. We’ll see a huge new “Walk away” movement. I hope they understand why.
Like your comment.
“The blue and red states need to separate. “
That’s not generally the situation. It’s rural vs. urban.
Hi.
I’m praying that I don’t see CWII.
Killing is such an ugly business. No quarter, Columbian neck ties, touture, it all sucks.
Not a good idea to start shooting etc.
Warning! If we have a second civil war (which wasn’t civil), it will make the war between the States look like a walk in the park on a warm spring day.
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It causes much heated discussion, but so long as the country is divided down the middle, it's hard for any party to push much of its agenda through.
The problem we face at present is not just that the country is divided 50-50 or thereabouts but what we are divided over.
Historically, the country has been divided by issues that are addressed by the Constitution as it now stands. Arguing about issues "within the framework of the Constitution" can be resolved by the government and the electoral process.
This time, however, a part of one side (not comprising the entire 50% though) wants changes to the Country that ultimately require the Constitution itself to be overthrown and replaced by a socialist Constitution.
As Dennis Prager said in the article which is the subject of this thread, these types of arguments/divides cannot be resolved peacefully within the Constitution.
One side of the divided country contains a group which seeks a regime change.
“...they operate on the rule of by any means necessary...”
So do I.
Can we call this one The War of Snowflake Aggression?
Thank you.
Clearly the left in the U.S. is unable to fight. So it makes one wonder who (obviously from the outside) might be planning to take on that role? I don't Russia is any position to fill that position. Would that leave China?
I don’t trust the Chicomms at all. I don’t think they’re gearing up to fight India.
Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell suggested on Friday that the U.S. government could use nuclear weapons on its own citizens if they fight back against firearm confiscation.
Is that remark by Swalwell a call to peace and flowers or war?
https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/16/swalwell-gun-owners-nukes/
Leningrad comes to mind, although in the end the Germans lost. Difference is, in Leningrad you had a commissar on every block to keep the people motivated to stay the course or get a bullet to the mullet.
Our American city folk would fold after the first week. To lazy and to dependent of the Gubmint!
IMHO
American city folks would wet their trousers at the mere thought of defending the country (there will be some exceptions to that but almost invisibly small).
America's backbone is in her small cities and towns and in the country.
These folks are armed to the teeth and well-practiced with weapons.
Given that the communist politicians in America are coming out of their hidey-holes, one has to wonder who is behind them? Who do they look to as their armed support?
It surely isn't the U.S. military or the Veterans.
It isn't some militia.
Who is it?
Surely AOC doesn't think she is going to take over the Country without some kind of military support. One has to wonder where she thinks her support would come from?
Former Federal Prosecutor [Joe diGenova]: "We Are In A Civil War... I Buy Guns"
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-25/former-federal-prosecutor-we-are-civil-war-buy-guns
Btw, when I see all the talk about how easy it's going to be to defeat the other side, if a war breaks out, it sounds exactly like the talk just prior to bullets flying in the last CW.
Later.
I noticed that over the weekend.
Joe is highly respected.
Prager gets it.
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