Posted on 05/23/2024 7:01:47 AM PDT by Starman417
The 19th century Prussian general Karl Von Clausewitz famously said: “War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.” or as we more often hear it, “War is but politics by different means.”
War is what generally happens when two (or more) sides get to a point where they can no longer peacefully coexist with the current circumstances. We’re there…
How does one know a civil war is coming? Have you been on a college campus lately?
2024 is an echo of 1968, the original Summer of Love. Today, the ostensible catalyst for what we’re seeing on campuses across the country is the Israeli “genocide” happening in Gaza. We’re seeing a virtual replay of the original “Summer of Love” where entitled students took over campuses while feckless administration cowards fiddled while their schools figuratively burned. In ’68 the students were protesting the Vietnam War (they were really protesting the draft, the war was just the rallying point) and then as now, Columbia was the epicenter.
Spreading from Columbia across the country, that summer protests raged and chats of “Hell no, we won’t go” and images of Black Power fists were everywhere to be seen and heard on the nightly news. Today the news and social media are filled with chants of “From the river to the sea,” images of Palestinian flags, BLM signs and & Antifa graffiti and anyone not wearing a keffiyeh being declared a “Zionist.”
The difference between 1968 and 2024 is that back then, most of the country disagreed with the protesters.
In November 1968 Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey in the Electoral College 301 – 191. Add to that the 46 electors that George Wallace took, and the country voted 347 to 191 against the Democrats (57% vs 43% in the popular vote). And this was at a time when most Democrats were strongly anti-Communist and being pro American was considered normal, almost required.
Today we have a completely different landscape. In 2024 Democrats are virtually indistinguishable from Communists and being pro American is seen as racist.
Hence the college protests. They’re not just pro-Hamas, they’re much, much more. These protests are very much a reflection of their time in the seemingly mainstream nature of the beliefs that power them. They’re at their core not just anti-Israel, they’re antisemitic, they’re anti-American, anti-western, anti-capitalist, anti-police, and of course, anti-white.
Sadly, all of those things are basically mainstream Democrat policies in 2024. We see every single one of them play out across the country in federal, state and local governments. From stultifying climate change regulations to the housing of illegals to DEI diktats to the reimagining of police, there’s virtually nothing that government does today that isn’t infused with the workings of a leftist’s wet dream. And at the end of the day, while some new incremental CAFE standard from Washington or a DEI hire at the local university might not sound particularly onerous, in reality they’re just more bars of the leftist policy prison being implemented around the country.
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No, the Summer of Love was in 1967.
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
~Emiliano Zapata
It is long overdue for and needed...
When a Republican controlled House and Senate cuts off funding that subsidizes Democratic controlled urban areas, left wing universities,left wing directed Federal spending PBS, NPR and secures the border, things will get dicey. However very few people are at this point or even then willing to die for their “values”.
When winter comes, the protesters will all crawl back to their parents homes. UNTIL next spring, when they will emerge again like bugs from the ground after a their winter hibernation and molting.
all just to start all over again.
Thank you MLK/BlM/HAMAS, for showing these people how to be good communist protesters. *spit*
I believe our massive, debt- bloated, globalist, ideologue Fed.gov is heading for a collapse, similar to its Soviet predecessor.
Don’t they have an app for that?
And for the same reasons.
The author is wrong, 2024 America resembles 1938 Germany when and where Kristallnacht,or the Night of Broken Glass, when Jews were attacked nationwide.
Did this author sleep through the summer of 2020?
Nothing happening on college campuses today comes close.
There will be no protest at the Democratic Convention because all these protesters are funded and controlled by the Democratic Party.
difference is, Jews had mostly surrendered their arms willingly.
Americans mostly have not. Question is, do we have the nads to use them or not....
No civil war, unless some foreign power (maybe Mexico, who knows) is willing to support the rebels. Otherwise, any opposition will be crushed like a gnat, as we learned on Jan 6th.
2024 = 1984!
The Civil War has started but the sides are now being formed. The shooting has not started yet. We are in a state of flux now and things can go in many ways. Now, all it will take is a spark and the real nightmare will start.
Oh really? With what army? The 500,000 or so non REMF army is going to suppress over 150,000 million people? I’d say half the army defects too.
afterwards they should be placed in a 4 ft deep self dug foxhole in front of the backstop of a 24/7 outdoor shooting range for a week. leave them 4 days worth of rations
Then ask them if they still want a war with the U.S.
And for that effrontery he was removed from office via a deep state coup.
During WWII Hitler complained that it took so many troops to occupy Yugoslavia/Greece. He complained that this took away 400,000 troops ( 25+ wehrmacht army divisions) from the upcoming Operation Bararosa. Come on, our army is a paper tiger.
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