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ARE THE DEMOCRATS FIGHTING A CIVIL WAR?
Powerline Blog ^ | 28 Jan, 2018 | JOHN HINDERAKER

Posted on 01/29/2018 7:59:33 PM PST by MtnClimber

That is the provocative hypothesis put forward by Danial Greenfield at Sultan Knish. On its face it sounds hyperbolic, but Greenfield makes a rather sober case. You should read it all, but this will give you some of the flavor:

How do civil wars happen?

Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge.

That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war. *** The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it’s not the first time they’ve done this.

The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn’t really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There’s a pattern here. *** What do sure odds of the Dems rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don’t accept the results of any election that they don’t win.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bloggers; civilwar; resist; revolution
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1 posted on 01/29/2018 7:59:33 PM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

When the left buys guns and learns how to shoot them then I will worry. The military will probably never follow the left into revolution. All the three letter agencies don’t have enough people and one of their neighbors won’t be a leftist.


2 posted on 01/29/2018 8:02:03 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Well stated.


3 posted on 01/29/2018 8:05:54 PM PST by Djl3668 (Z11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things)
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To: MtnClimber

There is a special on A&E now about David Koresh. It probably would help some to consider how important it is to be skeptical and not to give up your free will, especially to any political power or politician.


4 posted on 01/29/2018 8:07:31 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: MtnClimber

UCMJ

Roaches check in but don’t check out.


5 posted on 01/29/2018 8:08:56 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: MtnClimber

When people are trained to hate, the hate makes a home deep inside. Now there is resentment and hate toward everything.
It is out of control. The media feeds the haters appetite everyday with a new batch of food for hate. The hate grows and grows. Now the country is addicted to hate. The music industry can write songs music for hate. In sports the other team is hated and even the country is disrespected. The entertainment business gives the country the finger. In politics the other side is always bad, even if it is good.
Hate running wild throughout the land is hard to stop now.


6 posted on 01/29/2018 8:10:34 PM PST by FreedBird
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To: MtnClimber
-- The military will probably never follow the left into revolution. --

But it might, and that is enough for me to distrust it. The constitution forbids a standing army. Congress gets around that by funding the standing army with periodic funding.

7 posted on 01/29/2018 8:11:26 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: FreedBird

The “media” should be our first target if shooting starts.
They have been complicit in feeding the hate for this country and its constitution.
The war will be for rule of law and the Constitution.
That said, I hope it does not start.


8 posted on 01/29/2018 8:15:36 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: MtnClimber

Marxists expect a struggle. The dialectic requires it


9 posted on 01/29/2018 8:16:18 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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It means they don’t accept the results of any election that they don’t win.

And that does mean politics by other means. That won't be pretty.

10 posted on 01/29/2018 8:18:35 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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No. They are all in it together serving no purpose for the citizenry.


11 posted on 01/29/2018 8:20:30 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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I think the election damaged their stability. They must get over it the same way republicans got over the loss that put Obama in office.

EVERYBODY please shake hands, move ahead and start trusting your fellow office holders. You all have value.

12 posted on 01/29/2018 8:20:52 PM PST by Rapscallion (The tragedy of politics is that it can make people hate each other.)
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To: right way right

Trump haters against Trump lovers. Trump haters are not rational people. Most of them do not even understand why they are so full of poison.


13 posted on 01/29/2018 8:24:01 PM PST by FreedBird
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To: elhombrelibre

With all this human trafficker talk today, Haiti and the rehash of Waco made me pause about what possibly was needing to be covered up that Reno needed to napalm to ash. That bitch is roasting in hell.


14 posted on 01/29/2018 8:26:10 PM PST by Cats Pajamas (#releasethememo)
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To: MtnClimber

John is just now catching on? The jackasses have been fighting a civil war against our Republic since the era of the carpetbaggers.


15 posted on 01/29/2018 8:26:19 PM PST by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: 60Gunner
The liberal bureaucrats have been waging war administratively against freedom. If a civil war would break out I think they would try to duck their heads into their hole, but they have conservative neighbors who know who they are.
16 posted on 01/29/2018 8:31:14 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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EXCELLENT summary by Hinderaker of them Greenfield article. This really lays it all out. I hadn’t thought about the concept of the “floating dictatorship” where the Dems control from whatever organizations or part of government t they own at the moment. It is 100% correct.

I’ll read the Greenfield article next. Thanks for posting.


17 posted on 01/29/2018 8:31:58 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Cats Pajamas

Koresh having his followers spread gasoline in the compound probably didn’t help.


18 posted on 01/29/2018 8:35:46 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: MtnClimber

Saw this on reddit and had to share it.

You want to know what the irony here is? The Left pulled down their own. With all of their relentless bitching and moaning about Russia, these investigations pushed forward. Gotta’ love the retarded Left. Their strongest asset is shooting to hit their feet, missing, and blowing off their f***ing heads.


19 posted on 01/29/2018 8:37:06 PM PST by Cats Pajamas (#releasethememo)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I think almost all of the unelected departments and agencies as well as many of the other civil service employees are using their regulatory power to attack conservatives. There may come a time when they cross a threshold where the governed citizens throw off the chains by firing their civil servants.


20 posted on 01/29/2018 8:42:33 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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