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Dennis Prager: America’s Second Civil War
dennisprager.com ^ | Dennis

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.


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To: RoosterRedux
I'm reading *The Coming Civil War – by Tom Kawczynski*

War is coming. The first skirmishes are already being fought. The crisis America faces is between two incompatible visions of the future, and a nation sharply divided between them. Will we become this diverse beacon of tolerance where we forget our past and embrace socialism and political correctness? Or, will we stand for our traditional beliefs, values, liberty, and sovereign government as free citizens our Founders did? Between these two paths, it becomes clearer each day no happy compromise exists to be reached, and as the arguments become more heated and the fights spill into the street, this battle to define America for generations to come is just beginning. To understand the reasons for the fight, the players shaping this conflict, the groups who will be on each side, and what this potentially means for your family and our nation, this brutally candid account offers a vital glimpse toward dark days ahead.

It's a long detailed read that is taking much longer than I had expected. Other opinions concerning the matter I see in the news really get my attention now.

121 posted on 02/25/2019 8:07:34 PM PST by amorphous
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To: Buttons12

61 MILLION murdered US babies since Roe v Wade disagree about “no violence”. (strange that the nazis murder mostly their own).
http://www.numberofabortions.com/


122 posted on 02/25/2019 9:54:38 PM PST by matthew fuller (Some people are deserving of the death penalty.)
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To: matthew fuller

I did not assert that there is no violence. How are you reading that in?


123 posted on 02/26/2019 6:40:31 AM PST by Buttons12
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To: Buttons12

I’m sorry, I wasn’t clear, or ascribing Prager’s statement to you- “If as Prager admits there’s no violence”. I wasn’t trying to put words in your mouth.


124 posted on 02/26/2019 6:51:25 AM PST by matthew fuller (Some people are deserving of the death penalty.)
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To: RoosterRedux; Chode; Squantos; SkyDancer; snooter55; carriage_hill; Lockbox; All

Falmouth MAGA hat showdown ends with ICE arrest
Boston Herald ^ | February 26, 2019 | Howie Carr

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3730750/posts

HA HA !!!


125 posted on 02/26/2019 2:19:47 PM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! C ?)
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To: mabarker1

New assault against HS kid wearing MAGA cap, and carrying Trump banner.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3730757/posts


126 posted on 02/26/2019 2:34:03 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

Thank You


127 posted on 02/26/2019 2:49:06 PM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! C ?)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yes.

I remember that even Indiana can’t say NO to transgenderism

Who will fight back?


128 posted on 02/26/2019 3:18:44 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ))
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To: carriage_hill

And another one:

Man, 81, Wearing Red MAGA Hat Assaulted Inside New Jersey Shop Rite, Prosecutors Say

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3730800/posts


129 posted on 02/26/2019 5:15:05 PM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! C ?)
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130 posted on 02/27/2019 10:03:53 PM PST by OathKeeperUSMC
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