Posted on 02/17/2017 4:58:07 PM PST by The_Harlequin
The Second American Civil War is gradually coalescing into an observable phenomenon. The lines are being drawn and people are taking sides in noticeable ways. As it now stands, we have something of a "cold war" going on as it once existed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Espionage, intelligence breaches, clandestine black bag operations, fifth column saboteurs, and the like. But important questions remain: As the war continues, how will the conflict evolve? Will it escalate? If so, what will be the flashpoint that puts it in full motion? Will it turn into a full-fledged armed conflict? As the storm clouds gather, a short history retrospective might shed some light on things to come.
November 6, 1860, President Lincoln is elected President of the United States. South Carolina would be the first state to secede from the Union a mere six weeks later. In January, five more states would follow. In February, Texas votes for secession and joins the newly established Confederate States of America. A constitution is ratified and former Senator and U.S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis is appointed President of the Confederacy. Lincoln has yet to be inaugurated.
One week after Lincoln’s March 4 inauguration, Fort Sumter is bombarded by Confederate troops. Union troops are forced to surrender. Virginia secedes days later. On April 19, Lincoln issues a “Proclamation of Blockade Against Southern Ports” that formally recognizes “an insurrection against the Government of the United States.”
In June, two limited military engagements in Virginia, the “Battle of Sewell’s Point” and the “Battle of Aguia Creek” are fought to inconclusive results. The war spreads to West Virginia, and Missouri, resulting in the first two Union victories. Confederate forces achieve their first victory in the “Battle of Big Bethel” in Virginia.
On July 21, four months after President Lincoln is sworn in, the “First Battle of Bull Run” becomes the first major battle of the war. The First American Civil War would continue for the next three and a half years.
Thankfully, our current conflict has not yet approached military proportions, anti-Trump riots notwithstanding. These are little more than angry tantrums from an infantilized sector of the population who understand nothing of survival and self-sufficiency. In military terms they don’t even qualify as skirmishes. And these melodramatic posers don’t come close to being a genuine insurgency.
All Americans should pray that it stays this way. And we should always remember the words of General William Tecumseh Sherman:
“I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.”
But make no mistake. There is a major fight coming. Perhaps it will stay in the courts, and among our legislators, perhaps not. Is reconciliation possible? There may be a remote chance of that, but it looks more and more like each side of the growing divide have no intention of backing down. America hasn’t faced this kind of disunity since 1861.
I was curious to see how the libs would react to DJTs election; FBI Gun-Sale Background Checks Fall 16% In December
“A Historical”. Drives me nuts seeing that written and spoken. Sorry, but it does.
Good article, though.
In the past the poorest weren’t the most likely to be obese like they are now. That’s something that has never happened before. It’s hard for me to picture them choosing the hardship sustained unrest would bring as things stand now.
Freegards
And most of the experience in functioning wearing MOPP gear. American wars are always all out, so there is virtually no chance that won’t be needed on a larger scale than the puny attempted invasion of Syria.
History teaches two equally important lessons about war:
1. War is always terrible.
2. Sometimes failure to go to war is even worse.
We would do well to keep both lessons in mind.
But of course, this collapse is likely to shatter the world outside itself as it collapses.
It is possible to head off through determination. The Philippines is doing what it takes now.
I see young people interviewed on television who can't even articulate the reason they are protesting. Others bent on destruction who probably espouse no cause but chaos.
I've seen hysterical protestors screaming about First Amendment rights which they seem to think only protect them and those who think like them and that the opposition has no First Amendment protection and should be shouted down at all costs.
The rhetoric is becoming hotter and more nonsensical, the radical element more apparent, the violence and destruction of property more common place.
The pot is boiling and it’s only a matter of time before there will be blood on the streets.
At this point it could go either way and the left is showing signs of being more psychotic; not less.
We’ll just have to keep our powder dry and give it to them Korean Shopkeeper Style!
Lets see.. pink vagina hats and snowflakes Vs my arsenal... should be fairly quick.
I guess this writer wasn’t around in 1968.
BRING IT ON
I think that any speculation doesn’t begin to be plausible without looking at where federal, state, and municipal legislative bodies might weigh in. They make and enforce the laws and control the purse strings. Then there’s the US military, federal and state militias, and police organizations. How all of these entities might split would determine how everything else would fall into place.
LOL. God Bless Korean Shopkeepers. They don’t back down.
Arm yourself and adapt the Korean ShopKeeper Mindset!
I just read a whole thread at Reddit on a Korean Shopkeeper’s AMA, just for the memories.
“one EBT card system-wide glitch from armageddon.”
Yup
Try and think of it as your opportunity to go all “Korean Shopkeeper” on some looters.
That’s reassuring.
The reaction to this latest election is straight out of some third world hellhole script. Other than trying to overthrow with force
Stealing that lol
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