Posted on 07/31/2018 7:01:18 AM PDT by lowbuck
Edited on 07/31/2018 8:42:48 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Globalism, the tech boom, illegal immigration, campus radicalism, the new racialism . . . Are they leading us toward an 1861? How, when, and why has the United States now arrived at the brink of a veritable civil war?
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I agree that the majority of GOP voters want the borders controlled, but we only have maybe 50 in the House and a handful in the Senate on our side.
The Cheap Labor Express owns most of the GOP Senators.
“We are now nearing a point comparable to 1860, and perhaps past 1968.”
The poorest weren’t the most likely to be obese in 1860, weren’t the most entertained poor people ever, and weren’t used to air conditioning and sedentary lifestyles. It’s hard for me to imagine them choosing the hardship that comes with sustained civil unrest while these conditions persist.
“If in 1970 a nerd slandered one on the sidewalk and talked trash, he might not do it twice; in 2018, he did it electronically, boldly, and with impunity behind an array of masked social-media identities.”
Seems to me the 2018 nerd is sitting at home being entertained, while said nerd didn’t have that option in 1970. I wonder if the general lowering of the violent crime rate isn’t partly do to internet/video games.
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“Obama? Or the severely irresponsible people who voted him in? I see him as more of a symptom than a disease.”
No or about it...there wlll always be charlatans but without masses of fools to vote for them they go nowhere.
Trolling, doxing, and phishing were just new versions of what Jesus warned about in the Sermon on the Mount.
And Harrassing/persecuting, as in Maxine Waters's "They are not welcome any more, anywhere!"
Matthew 5:7:
Blessed are the merciful, for to them shall be mercy.
Blessed are those who are pure in their hearts, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Some benefit to the country would occur from getting them familiarized with firearms, and more benefit would come from the other life experiences they would acquire from being in the service.
I think it would make them more responsible than they are now.
Especially the earlier 20th century reds. The later 20th century reds have become more yuppiefied and pussified, and likely cannot stomach hard sacrifices. The Millenial reds are even more pathetic.
Current crop of Reds are a bunch of beta male soyboys who will likely run away if they encounter a real fight.
This is absolutely right, and I had no idea that this was the case until about three years ago.
Given the history, especially recent history of the Bush clan......
Not ALL of both parties. I believe the majority of republican office holders and republican voters want the borders controlled. We do have some powerful open borders republicans to deal with but the dems are like 98 percent
I appreciate the sentiment, but “Civil War” talk is a tad overheated. Things aren’t even as bad as they were in the 1990s, let alone the 1960s and 1970s. We aren’t even in the same ballpark as the 1850s.
If anything like the Rodney King riots, the Watts riots, the 1968 DNC, or Kent State happened today, you’d think it was the apocalypse, let alone something like Bleeding Kansas. No one in Congress been beaten half to death with a cane in the Capitol lately.
I’m as concerned about the rise of the openly-socialist left as the next guy, but we’ve been through worse. As bad as Obama was, he was nothing compared to Wilson or FDR.
I’ve been known to indulge in overheated rhetoric about the state of our politics, but I think it just empowers the left. I prefer to subject them to the ridicule they deserve, and keep winning in the ballot box as we have been.
You are correct about the voters, however, there are only about 50 in the House and a handful in the Senate that side with the citizens and the rule of law.
Most of the elected GOP are indeed on board the Cheap Labor Express and need to be replaced.
Maybe we should institute compulsory militia service as a condition of voting. It wouldn’t have to be too crazy: supply your own basic weapons and equipment, and train with your neighbors one weekend a month. With the popularity of mud runs, “boot camp” fitness classes, MMA, and Call of Duty, I think a lot of people are crying out for it without realizing it.
I disagree. It isn’t “globalism” that is at fault. “Globalism” is tied to capitalism. The correct identification is “global socialism” aka communism. The cancer of socialism, and the “cells” infected with communist-think DNA are the root problem.
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Globalist socialism and globalist capitalism have a common trait that is antithetical to national sovereignty. The state must be subjugated to a “world” or “international” order that imposes policies from the top down. Nations become to the “one world government” as U.S. states have become to our Federal government...no thanks.
Damn, normally you have to do some serious drugs to see things like that...
Sorry, wrong thread.
Civil War II will look like low intensity war in Northern Ireland.
I'm going to say autonomous Lesbian communes ...
He was a symptom.
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