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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Dont skip over the secession part.
And TAX THE ENDOWMENTS!
And if they don’t, we know where their families live.
history trying to rhyme .
“I say the empire splits up peacefully.”
I think the big ‘rat areas need to be made into fully independent city states.
I can’t remember which comedian it was but he said that nobody will invade the US because we have rednecks. If there was ever and invasion, the army would get to the south and all they would find are shotgun shells and empty beer cans.
” I say the empire splits up peacefully.”
Then you don’t understand the Left.
The military wouldn’t stand a chance against even a small but motivated minority of the population.
I believe that, I really do.
This is also true, unfortunately.
It’s an assurance (”getting the rhyme wrong”).
It’s happening now and being fought with moving trucks and law books.
Shooting war? Really? We have over 500,000 million legal guns.
Go away.
Civil War is here already but it’s not being fought between states. Its combatants are dark-money funded, anti-western thugs vs American citizens who are willing to resist. The battlefield is college campus, town squares, net zero internet, churches…any place where patriots congregate in public.
Ask yourself this question. Do you feel free?
I absolutely believe this. I think they have attempted to do the same thing to Trump, but he has been more wily than Nixon was.
I now see the State Department and various other agencies as "enemies of the state."
Enemies of the American people.
I sometimes agree with this sentiment.
And something I have learned over the last few years is that the original civil war was pretty much the same thing. There was dark money powers behind Lincoln pushing him to war because they were making so much money from the South they absolutely refused to allow it to become independent.
The independence of the South represented a horrific financial threat to the powerful men who controlled DC back in the 1860s.
There’s definitely a divide.
There might be some flying lead, but today there are many other weapons available.
J6 wasn't an "opposition." It was a demonstration. We haven't seen real "opposition" in this country since the civil war.
I'm betting more than half. But, it won't be the fed armed forces we will be fighting. I have no doubt that the powers-that-be will bring in the UN or China to help put us back under "control."
“The military wouldn’t stand a chance against even a small but motivated minority of the population.”
They’ll simply STARVE us. No need to fight.
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