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Bleeding America?
The American Thinker ^ | 06/20/17 | J. Robert Smith

Posted on 06/20/2017 5:25:50 AM PDT by pgkdan

“If they want civil war in this country, they will probably end up getting it,” Tweeted actor and conservative James Woods, last week. The “they” are an array of Democrats and leftists. Woods posted his Tweet just hours after James T. Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders’ groupie-turned-gunman, opened fire on Republican Congressman Steve Scalise and others at an Alexandria, Virginia ball field.

Radio talk show host Michael Savage commented last Tuesday, prior to the shootings:

“I don’t know how much more of this the country can take. We are at a boiling point. There’s going to be a civil war.”

Tweeted Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr., last Friday in response to banners held aloft by leftist protesters that read: “Become Ungovernable” and “This is War”:

Really? It's not what I prefer but if the left insists... time to saddle up. I didn't help get @realDonaldTrump elected to back down now.

Could Woods and Savage, in particular, be right? The words, “Civil war,” are on more lips nowadays. Will America’s long cold civil war finally turn hot? And if war came, what sort of war would it be?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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1 posted on 06/20/2017 5:25:50 AM PDT by pgkdan
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Keep in mind that many states have significant regional differences. Redder Central and Western Pennsylvania differ tellingly from Blue Philadelphia-dominated Eastern Pennsylvania. Upstate New York has little in common with New York City and its boroughs and nearby suburbs. Even in regions there are subsets at odds with surrounding communities and jurisdictions. Austin/Travis County, Atlanta/Fulton County, and Pittsburgh/Allegheny County differ from their states or regions. Birmingham, Alabama has more in common with Detroit, Michigan than the surrounding state.

The author's main point is that Civil War as in the War Between the States is unlikely today but the model of Bleeding Kansas, with community vs community, in separate states, all across the country and at the same time, is much more plausible.

It's the kind of thing I'm dreading to see this summer. Rumours have been out for months that Antifa and their cohorts like BLM are planning massive 'protests' this summer in our cities. If they actually happen, how long will it be before they're opposed by regular Americans who've had enough? Or worse, by armed militias?

I've said it before that Conservative Americans are the most law abiding and patriotic people in the land but even law abiding patriots will get to the point where they've had enough and they're willing to say NO More.

2 posted on 06/20/2017 5:31:44 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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Don’t forget to add the evil Muslim refugees transported by OVOMIT to all the red states to the dirty mix!! Make no mistake they will be the first ones to jump on the wagon or lead their demonic losing war....CAIR=ISIS!!! IF GOD IS WITH US WHO CAN BE AGAINST US! THEY LOSE!!


3 posted on 06/20/2017 5:31:51 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: pgkdan
Very good article IMHO. It ends with this:

It’s all guesswork now, and it’s safer to predict the unpredictable. What’s certain, though, is that the elements are in place for greater unrest, militancy, strife, and violence. It’s the stuff that made Kansas bleed.

4 posted on 06/20/2017 5:33:17 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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Civil wars are often the most destructive wars, but I have come to the conclusion that the US would be stronger in the long run if we had an exceptionally bloody civil war (Russian/Chinese level war deaths in the tens of millions) that got rid of all the traitors, parasites and dead wood holding this country down.


5 posted on 06/20/2017 5:39:07 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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Thomas Kratman said that any civil war in the US would resemble the Lebanese Civil War, not the Civil War of 1861-65.
You enemy would live just down the road, or even next door.


6 posted on 06/20/2017 5:41:24 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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What says we’re going to win?
And when women and children are included in those “tens of millions” are you really ready to go that far?


7 posted on 06/20/2017 5:42:51 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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Conservatives are more patient too. In addition most conservatives have faith in God. Most liberals don’t and the ones that do, they believe that God needs their help in order to make things right in society. The ones without faith naturally believe that they are in danger every minute of every day, because they don’t know (as we do) that God is in control.


8 posted on 06/20/2017 5:42:56 AM PDT by punknpuss
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To: RoseofTexas

[IF GOD IS WITH US WHO CAN BE AGAINST US! THEY LOSE!!]

This is a war for the battle of the mind, the soul of America, and will only be won GOD’S way.

2 CHRONICLES 7:14
If My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and change their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive them and heal their land.


9 posted on 06/20/2017 5:44:28 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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whatever is gunna happen needs to happen quickly as i feel certain the UN will take the opportunity to try to take over


10 posted on 06/20/2017 5:44:47 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen
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/// What says we’re going to win?
And when women and children are included in those “tens of millions” are you really ready to go that far? ///

We have a lot of ammo and a lot of guns and lots of people with training. Win, lose or draw, the other side will know they were in a fight. In a losing scenario, my philosophy will be to make victory so costly that it would seem like a defeat, their victory would taste like ashes.

Ready to go that far? A lot of those Antifa thugs were children a few years ago, and their women are not getting a pass.

I’d go further. A far as necessary to win. As far as using nuclear weapons, I do notice a lot of “them” are clustered in cities and vulnerable. Clustering also renders them vulnerable to cholera outbreaks, or cutting off their water and power supplies.


11 posted on 06/20/2017 5:52:02 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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Author: J. Robert Smith

One of the leftist's goals is to goad some conservative somewhere into reacting violently. Satisfying as it may be we can't take the bait. Scathing e-mails to journalists and politicians should be the limit of our response.

12 posted on 06/20/2017 5:52:30 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Proudly deplorable since 2016 - BLOAT)
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...cutting off their water and power supplies.

This would be the most effective IMO.

13 posted on 06/20/2017 5:58:10 AM PDT by Principled (OMG I'm so tired of all this winning....)
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I don’t see how that can be avoided at some point. I used to think later in the century. Now, it appears much more imminent.


14 posted on 06/20/2017 5:58:26 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Why defend the EU?)
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“One of the leftist’s goals is to goad some conservative somewhere into reacting violently. Satisfying as it may be we can’t take the bait. “

So true. Soros tried this in the Ukraine, and it worked. He (and others)
are trying to do it here, also. Chaos, and then imposed order. Or
an overturning of the established order.


15 posted on 06/20/2017 5:59:22 AM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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There needs to be a housecleaning of Biblical proportions. We’re long overdue. It’s a butcher’s bill, payable in blood.


16 posted on 06/20/2017 6:00:53 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
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I generally consider clustering a way of concentrating force. But “General Cholera” could do some good work for us in the cities.
I am too old and tired to fight. I supposed I could cook and drive...


17 posted on 06/20/2017 6:01:03 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

The trouble with a civil war is no one wears uniforms so a lot of innocents get killed.

Maybe we should start issuing uniforms. Pink for the leftists and blue for the rest of us.


18 posted on 06/20/2017 6:01:42 AM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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Never, ever in my almost 80 years would I have expected to be reading about a civil war between American people with different political views in this country but alas, here it is. I grew up in a conservative Christian family, spent time in the U.S. Navy and will NEVER, repeat NEVER back down to someone wishing to destroy this once great country. I am a patriot, still quite active and WILL fight to my death to protect the U.S. from being over-run by a bunch of “no minds”. BRING IT, I’m ready.


19 posted on 06/20/2017 6:06:10 AM PDT by DaveA37
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“whatever is gunna happen needs to happen quickly as i feel certain the UN will take the opportunity to try to take over.”

Too funny! UN blue helmets wouldn’t last two weeks.


20 posted on 06/20/2017 6:07:21 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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