[Flick Lives]

Indeed, Jonah Goldberg in National Review said as much. He denied that we are in the midst of a civil war on two grounds: One is that it is not violent, and the other is that we are fighting a “culture war,” not a civil war.

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This statement from Jonah Goldberg shows how ignorant of history he is. The 1st U.S. Civil War didn’t begin as a hot war. It simmered for decades as a political confrontation and power struggle within the Federal and State governments.

[miss marmelstein]

And to think that “slavery” wasn’t the ultimate cultural object of war! That’s true even if you think it was a secondary reason for the war.

[caddie]

The American Revolution also 'smoldered' for a good ten or twenty years as arguments in pubs, written pamphlets, town hall meetings etc., before it came to a head.

Mercy Otis Warren wrote about the pre-war sentiment and development in MA; she said that by the time the war had begun, it had long been accepted as inevitable by the majority of people.

The way she said it was that the war had for some time been fought in the hearts and minds of the people before any armed conflict took place.

I am paraphrasing.