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The Second American Civil War: An Historical Prequel
Thought Crimes; The Trump Diaries ^ | 02-16-17 | Chris Shugart

Posted on 02/17/2017 4:58:07 PM PST by The_Harlequin

civil war

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.

 


TOPICS: History; Politics
KEYWORDS: bits; civilwar; cwii; cwiiping; democrats; lincoln; trump
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To: Bodleian_Girl

While you’re at the link, check out the story “Dry Hole.” I think you might find it interesting.


61 posted on 02/18/2017 6:11:34 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Liberals really don’t believe people they hurt will hurt them back because they have a higher intellect and are politically and morally correct.

Of course the radical fringe who are into violence accept the reality of retaliationa and are actually looking for it as a trigger to spur the millions of people on the left who they think are behind them. That’s how they foment riots.

Then when some college girl gets a broken nose they have disappeared into the night and the sewers.


62 posted on 02/18/2017 7:03:28 AM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: TexasKamaAina

It was the nuns that ensured I learned that basic grammar rule. Boy howdy did they ever! < BG >


63 posted on 02/18/2017 7:25:05 AM PST by Don W ( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: TexasKamaAina

I’m in MA and use both

I would say “A history lesson” but would also say “An historical event”.

I didn’t realize that I did that until just this moment. :-)

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64 posted on 02/18/2017 7:33:07 AM PST by Mears
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To: DJ Taylor

I will.


65 posted on 02/18/2017 7:37:07 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Trump: "I'm not going to tell you.")
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To: DJ Taylor

You should put the link to the Project Delta website in your FR profile so more people would see it!


66 posted on 02/18/2017 7:39:01 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Trump: "I'm not going to tell you.")
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To: Stanwood_Dave

I see your point.


67 posted on 02/18/2017 7:41:38 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Trump: "I'm not going to tell you.")
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To: Bodleian_Girl

You don’t think China (and Russia) will arm them? Train them? And hope to prolong it and have as many casualties, on both sides, as possible?


68 posted on 02/18/2017 7:51:40 AM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: riri

Let’s hope not.

I mean, all of the liberals I know aren’t willing to start training to murder fellow citizens.

They are stupid and fallow though.


69 posted on 02/18/2017 8:06:22 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Trump: "I'm not going to tell you.")
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To: Eaker; Absolutely Nobama; afnamvet; AK2KX; Ancesthntr; An Old Man; APatientMan; ApesForEvolution; ..
Notification hat tip: the incomparable Duncan Waring.

Yes, this article is about the possibility of a looming Civil War 2. Thus, CWII ping!

The CWII Ping List is short for Civil War II. It is NOT a list of people advocating another Civil War in America. It is a list of people who are interested in the parallels between the Civil War (or War Between the States, if you prefer) and our current situation, or more generally are noting the references to a 'coming Civil War' that are made in the press.
The correct keyword tag for the Civil War II ping list is "CWII".
Please Freep Mail me to get on the list

Here, as a special CWII Ping List Bonus: an excellent article by Civil War II ping list co-creator, Matt Bracken: The CW2 Cube: Mapping the Meta-terrain (click gateway to hell to enter)


70 posted on 02/20/2017 6:34:18 PM PST by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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To: SpaceBar
We are one EBT card system-wide glitch from armageddon.

Boy have you got that right!
71 posted on 02/20/2017 6:54:00 PM PST by Cheerio (The unknown President #44)
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To: JerryBlackwell

That is why a good rifle for 7.62 and 5.56mm each makes sense. Not that I condone such shenanigans of course, guns are scary.


72 posted on 02/20/2017 7:20:20 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Viking2002

Welcome to the party, pal. Now you need 10,000 rounds of ammo.


73 posted on 02/20/2017 7:55:46 PM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: The_Harlequin

Semi-jokingly, I’ve said that the War of Yankee Aggression did not end at Appomattox. That it was only time out. It appears that I wasn’t too far off the mark, but for the wrong reason.

It appears that the Liberals pushed for the first war and now they are pushing for a second war. This time there will be no lines; no military operations. Your neighbor may be an enemy. You may be alone in your community.

In past postings I wanted a peaceful yet mandated separation. That didn’t happen; so we are faced with the very real danger of anarchy and/or revolution. The revolution, if it comes, it can be either like America 1776 or like France 1789/Russia 1917.


74 posted on 02/20/2017 11:46:54 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: DiogenesLamp

All true, but slavery had to go.


75 posted on 02/21/2017 6:03:32 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: DJ Taylor

We are not animals.


76 posted on 02/21/2017 6:06:18 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: Berosus

During that critical month Lincoln turned down every attempt at a peaceful solution. He even admitted so in his second inaugural address. Lincoln was a butcher.


77 posted on 02/21/2017 6:07:17 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ecomcon

We are Devo.


78 posted on 02/21/2017 6:10:36 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Jim Noble

I agree. There are PLENTY of check takers in LE and military.


79 posted on 02/21/2017 6:11:34 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: aquila48
The leaders of the Communist mass murders were from the middle class of their countries and were for the most part college trained elitists. However, the ones who did the hard work of fighting the counter-revolutionaries and foreign armies were men of sturdy peasant and worker background. Potentially ruthless leaders are out there: I have no doubt that someone like Bill Ayers would replicate the role of Lenin or Trotsky if possible. The Left's main deficiency is the lack of an effective army. The closest thing they have to this sort are the gangbangers of the ethnic ghettoes. However, these are not disciplined men who grew up plowing fields, digging ditches, etc., like the average foot soldier in the Red Army or the Cheka. If they are in shape, it came from playing sports, not manual labor. Many of these people are mentally challenged due to narcotics addiction, and are unreliable in following orders. They usually don't succeed in the Armed Forces unless they make a determined decision to break away from the ghetto lifestyle.

Basically, the Left lacks the sort of men needed to fight Middle American resistance and impose a dictatorship.

80 posted on 02/21/2017 6:21:43 AM PST by Wallace T.
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