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We Are In A Cold Civil War
Tom Klingesntein ^ | 11/30/23 | Tom Klingenstein

Posted on 11/30/2023 11:54:05 AM PST by PoliticallyShort

Republican Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy recently sat down for an interview with me in what is Ramaswamy’s most politically combative interview to date. Ramaswamy makes the case in the interview that America is in a state of war, not with foreign countries, but with ourselves. The country, he notes, seems for many—left and right—to have two regimes or two societies that have radically different, perhaps unbridgeable understandings of what constitutes a just society.

As Ramaswamy puts it: “We are absolutely in a [Cold Civil War] with the fate of the country at stake. And you had better know it…Either you believe in free speech, or you believe in censorship…Either you believe in fairness and merit, or you believe in group quotas…Either you believe in the founding ideals of this country, or you believe America is systemically racist…You can’t have it both ways.”

Whether we are in fact in a state of war is the most pressing question of the moment. Do the other Republican candidates believe we are in a war or don’t they? Voters are owed an answer. And at stake is the American way of life.

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1 posted on 11/30/2023 11:54:05 AM PST by PoliticallyShort
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To: PoliticallyShort

Ya, but there’s no front on which to fight them.


2 posted on 11/30/2023 11:56:03 AM PST by G Larry (It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants by importing Cheap ILLEGAL Labor!)
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To: PoliticallyShort

It’s not a cold civil war, but only one side is harassing, shooting, beating, and imprisoning its enemies.


3 posted on 11/30/2023 12:07:45 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: PoliticallyShort

A Cold War now, but one side has just declared murder, rape and infanticide justifiable for the right reasons.


4 posted on 11/30/2023 12:23:05 PM PST by Spok (It takes a lot of learning to understand how little we know. (Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell.))
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To: G Larry

“Ya, but there’s no front on which to fight them.”

For Cold Wars that’s supposed to be the ballot box, but they may have that covered.


5 posted on 11/30/2023 12:46:52 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: PoliticallyShort

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6 posted on 11/30/2023 12:48:48 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: SaxxonWoods
For Cold Wars that’s supposed to be the ballot box, but they may have that covered.

We aren't going to vote our way out of this mess.

7 posted on 11/30/2023 1:14:41 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: G Larry

“Ya, but there’s no front on which to fight them.”

Sure there is.

You can start at your local school board. Start attending and start taking video of the proceedings and then publishing the unedited video on Rumble (You Tube will remove it).

Attend city council meetings and do the same thing.

If you want to get really crazy then try standing on the sidewalk outisde a police station holding a US flag. Hopefully you won’t get beaten and tased when they arrest you.

But these are things you can do close to home which send a message to the leftists and other tyrants (we have them on our side too) that you’re not going to take it.


8 posted on 11/30/2023 1:21:41 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: PoliticallyShort

Actual title: My Opponents Are Cowards


9 posted on 11/30/2023 1:24:05 PM PST by Pollard (The US government has US citizens as political prisoners!)
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To: MeganC

I think he was being a little more literal.


10 posted on 11/30/2023 1:42:42 PM PST by ALASKA (There has to be a line we do not cross.)
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To: PoliticallyShort

Been saying this for 15 years.


11 posted on 11/30/2023 2:16:55 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: MeganC
I'm so deep into local politics it hurts.

Here we have a civil war within our County GOP.

12 posted on 11/30/2023 2:37:08 PM PST by G Larry (It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants by importing Cheap ILLEGAL Labor!)
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To: G Larry

Sad that our worst enemy is the GOP.


13 posted on 11/30/2023 4:16:33 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC

The Swami is right. looking more and more like its Bonnie Blue Flag time. The enemy has the Pride Flag and the Flag of Hamas—maybe we need a flag too. Where to fight? Just don’t give in. Laugh at them—they can’t take a joke. Maybe make a sign “Jewish Babys lives matter.” or simply “Trump Won”. But, remember there could be danger. 2024 will be an interesting year.


14 posted on 11/30/2023 11:56:04 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: jjotto

The proof for that is the DC Gulag created for the J6 prisoners.


15 posted on 11/30/2023 11:58:08 PM PST by Gaffer
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