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Leftists’ Civil War Fantasies Are Not Going to Work Out the Way They Think
Townhall.com ^ | 18 December A.D. 2023 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 12/18/2023 1:19:36 PM PST by lightman

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To: BigFreakinToad

That’s my point, they deliberately erred on the side of implausible because a plausible scenario would have been too political.

They had to have a scenario where both red and blue staters can walk out of the movie feeling they were on the winning side.


41 posted on 12/18/2023 2:59:34 PM PST by Truthsearcher
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To: lurk

They cannot win. But neither can we. All a civil war would do is destroy them country. Even if somehow you could win, (whatever that means) you would now inherit a country where half the population despises you. It would make reconstruction look like a picnic because libs are literally everywhere.

With such an internal dissent wing, you can only govern by becoming an authoritarian government. That is what we are headed for and to an extent already in. No matter who wins, a “republic” is not in our near future.


42 posted on 12/18/2023 3:07:16 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up.)
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To: Jonny7797

There are plenty of temporary ag visas for the west coast labor need. They would start in So Cal and work up north to Washington with the ripening fruit. There was an entire industry transporting and recruiting them on H-2A visas to work legally. The millions coming across the border now are not coming her to work. They are coming to leech off the tax payer.


43 posted on 12/18/2023 3:07:21 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eye)
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To: Psalm 73

Because they weren’t allowed to bring them. If they did they’d be arrested on the spot before the capitol walkthrough.


44 posted on 12/18/2023 3:07:37 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: lightman

“”A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to obtain or preserve their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule them.” Me


45 posted on 12/18/2023 3:08:05 PM PST by stockpirate (A group of baboons is referred to as a "Congress" of baboons.)
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To: lightman

Here is the reality.

In a US civil war, the world will be on the Blue side.

So will most of the military, police, industry, and political leaders.

On the Red side will be the people in the hinterlands, without access to the coasts or major waterways.

Some Blue areas will fall at first, but there is no way for rural Texas (and yes, it will not be Austin, Dallas, or Houston) to project force very far.

In short the center will be hollowed out, and the coasts with ports and naval assets can be resupplied.

Money wins wars. Look where the money is.

But it will cost 10’s, if not 100’s, of millions of people.


46 posted on 12/18/2023 3:16:24 PM PST by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )
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To: Organic Panic

I dont agree. Ag and construction dont want to pay labor with H visa costs. They want cheap undocumented labor.


47 posted on 12/18/2023 3:17:00 PM PST by Jonny7797
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To: lurk

“You sure you can win a shooting war against the guy who can shut down your electric, gas, groceries, bank account and health care?”

If they do that than one really has nothing to lose. When they prevent a man from providing for his family that man may become uncivil.


48 posted on 12/18/2023 3:17:59 PM PST by chuckb87
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To: lurk

The other side can do that with a line of code.

And much quicker.

If things get to that point, it won’t matter.


49 posted on 12/18/2023 3:26:00 PM PST by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )
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To: Blueflag

Exactly.


50 posted on 12/18/2023 3:26:42 PM PST by curious7
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To: Tell It Right
Karl Marx viewed religion as something that stands in the way of his idealized classless society.

Marxism *is* essentially, a secular religion.

It is fascinating how much it has in common with Islam.

51 posted on 12/18/2023 3:28:34 PM PST by marktwain
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To: for-q-clinton

“The right will be stupid and try to fight with honor. “

There’s a phrase I remember from way back in my militia days ‘after the first the rest are free’. Honor my ass.


52 posted on 12/18/2023 3:33:20 PM PST by dljordan
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To: DiogenesLamp

Reall? It was the South that vote overwelmingly for the fascist Wilson and Fdr. It is now a heartland of Conservatism, but back then, it voted for leftists who hated the Conservative American Founding.


53 posted on 12/18/2023 3:38:39 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: for-q-clinton
Right. That's my point. They didn't have firearms with them.

Not so with the other 80 million gun owners.

54 posted on 12/18/2023 4:03:30 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Psalm 73

And they never showed up.


55 posted on 12/18/2023 4:06:00 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: MuttTheHoople

It won’t be us they invade, it will be Taiwan and Israel. We will be out of the picture. Taiwan will fall, but Israel will not. So the “kings of the east” will march westward, to help finish Israel off.

The USA will be too busy fighting against all the enemies within our own borders to effectively do anyhting about anybody else.


56 posted on 12/18/2023 4:08:49 PM PST by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: cowboyusa
Even if what you say is so, it doesn't change the fact that Lincoln begat the current Federal leviathan that is now subjugating us all.
57 posted on 12/18/2023 4:09:50 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Was that before or after he was shot in the head from behind?


58 posted on 12/18/2023 4:17:38 PM PST by HandyDandy (Borders, language and culture. Michael Savage)
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To: for-q-clinton
"And they never showed up."

Of course not - we can smell a trap a mile away. In this case I could smell that trap 500 miles away.

59 posted on 12/18/2023 4:21:06 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: RasterMaster

Great quote.


60 posted on 12/18/2023 4:23:53 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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