Posted on 08/19/2018 6:23:51 AM PDT by econjack
A few days ago, Jack Minzey, sent what was to be the final chapter in the long line of books and treatises which he had written.
Jack went to be with the Lord, on Sunday, 8 April 2018.
Professionally, Jack was head of the Department of Education at Eastern Michigan University as well as a prolific author of numerous books, most of which were on the topic of Education and the Government role therein. His interest in Conservative Politics was exceeded only by his intellectual ability. This is the last of his works:
Civil War 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 Democrats rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don't accept the results of any election that they don't win. It means they don't believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections.
That's a civil war.
There's no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the Democrats have rejected our system of government.
This isn't dissent. It's not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they're the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election. When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don't win, what you want is a dictatorship.
Your very own dictatorship.
The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to Democrats, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it's inherently illegitimate. The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can't scratch his own back without his say so, that's the civil war.
Our system of government is based on the constitution, but that's not the system that runs this country. The Democrat's system is that any part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the country.
If the Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do anything. And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. His power is unlimited. He's a dictator.
But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the President can't do anything. He isn't even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented. A Democrat in the White House has 'discretion' to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn't even have the 'discretion' to reverse him. That's how the game is played. That's how our country is run. Sad but true, although the left hasn't yet won that particular fight.
When a Democrat is in the White House, states aren't even allowed to enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission. But under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries.
The Constitution has something to say about that.
Whether it's Federal or State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left moves power around to run the country. If it controls an institution, then that institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land. This is what I call a moving dictatorship.
Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding: Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds. You can't serve in it if you're not a member. If you haven't been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals. If you aren't in the club. And Trump isn't in the club. He brought in a bunch of people who aren't in the club with him.
Now we're seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down.
That's not a free country.
It's not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an 'insurance policy' against Trump winning the election. It's not a free country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the opposition. It's not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media. It's not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn't supposed to win did.
Have no doubt, we're in a civil war between a conservative volunteer government and a leftist Democrat professional government.
Awesome statement and eloquently put. I liked referring to that episode as the War for Southern Independence, but I could not adequately explain why "Civil War" was inaccurate.
“War has been declared by one side, but the other won’t acknowledge....”
It was a silent Coup by the Left. Fortunately, Trump disrupted it. However, the Coup is still going on. It’s just not covert any longer. It’s in plain sight...
“Again, you’ve got to have the first “civil war” before you can have the second one. Technically a civil war involves an attempt to take over the government”
That would be a Coup. The War Between the States was indeed a Civil War.
Here is an essay I wrote (satire, of course) about the new Nobility.
I don’t have the source, but my understanding was that it was a newspaper article written while he was still at EMU.
Bkmrk- so sorry to have lost this guy.
I respectfully disagree. The War for Southern Independence was exactly that. About 71% of eligible voters in Texas voted for secession. That meant the people decided their course of action -albeit a course of action that was denied to them.
See my follow on links. I don’t think so.
Great article!
Author nails it. Never heard of him.
That’s going to be a hard sell to most. Words do matter, but people screw them up all the time. Like “decimate”; actually means to destroy every tenth item, but used to mean totally destroy. “Alright” was not a word until so many people butchered it that it made it into the dictionary. Then look at the misuse of “then” (i.e., time) and “than” (i.e., comparison), to, two, too. Even professional journalists, authors, and TV news people will say:
He’s the man that robbed the bank.
when it should be:
He’s the man who robbed the bank.
These are common, everyday mistakes. However, saying there was no Civil War is pretty much going to be like throwing a potato chip against the wind...it’s coming back in your face regardless (or would you prefer irregardless?) of how hard you throw it.
Thank you for the reminder.
As one who sees the importance of defining a “Civil War”, I appreciate your ability return to the issue at hand. At the same time the article states, “Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding....”
It seems to me that we cannot act until we first come to agreement on how we apply the terminology, and defining “Civil War” is as good a place as any.
Agree 100%. If the GOP doesn't grow a pair soon, they will lose all power and a new party will emerge from their corpse.
Yes. Reality is a B*tch that way. Unfortunately, it hurts us a lot, because the Leftists control most of the media and routinely change the definition of words to gain advantage.
The use of the term "REPUBLICANS/CONSERVATIVES" is the reason why they get away with it. The members of the "guild" (as mentioned in the article), the nomanklatura, extend to both major political parties. We must cease using Republican and Democrat to describe the two sides in this battle. The line is actually between LEFT and RIGHT.
Thanks for posting this.
Totally agree.
I think at this point, plans for winning need to be considered.
Bump
Civil war in America will spread to Europe in a matter of hours. Continental Europe is going through the same situation: a professional liberal political class, out of touch with angry constituents, and trying to keep at bay emerging right-leaning populist movements. When things explode over here, they'll explode over there for the same reasons. Only the accents will be different.
In the end, it'll likely be Russia and China picking up the pieces.
Very true. It’s not really a US Civil War that’s brewing, it’s a World War between the left and the right.
“The War Between the States was indeed a Civil War.”
No, it wasn’t.
It was a war between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, two separate and distinct countries.
A civil war must be between two factions within the same country.
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