Posted on 09/26/2008 1:08:20 PM PDT by quesney
Folks, A profound schism in American society has been exposed and laid bare over the following years since 9/11, through the events of Iraq to the monstrously socialist bailout of the present day.
John Edwards was right. There are Two Americas, and it is my fear that they fundamentally incompatible and irreconcilable.
We are headed for a conflict, decades in the making, approaching the intensity, scope and chaos of The Civil War.
I don't know what shape it will take or exactly when it will happen. I only know for certain it is coming and it will be messy. I only know for certain that I have little or nothing in common with "fellow Americans" such as Obama, Pelosi and a good chunk of the liberal "opposition", which I increasingly consider nothing more than a euphemism for people I consider aliens, at best.
The space for civilized debate is fast disappearing, when dealing with an "opposition" repeatedly ready to lie, cheat, distort, steal and compromise our national security, sovereignty and founding principles and repeatedly ready to abandon basic manners, civility, reality and logic, all of which are the fundamental basis for civilized debate. What do you call an "opposition" like that. Is it a threat that can be "deabted" with no longer?
I pray the coming conflict and confrontation is not violent, but it will be no less profound and no less significant than the first Civil War.
The very basic issue to be decided is just what is the United States of America, whether the Constitution no more than a piece of paper signifying nothing but pretense and old memories and whether there are still those prepared to fight for it.
Maybe principled leadership will arise that can prevent it. But I think things are rapidly developing beyond the capacity of any one figure -- however Reagenesque or Churchillian -- to stop what I fear is coming.
You can expect World War IV to start soon thereafter with the Chinese, Iran and Russians going after everyone still standing.
Thank you!
Another reason for term limits and line item veto’s.
It's amazing that THEY can get that many people together for their ILLEGAL demands, but we can't get half that many to DEMAND the tax system be revised to include EVERYBODY to pay their fair share.
Simply put, nobody cares.
What will prevent this from happening and shut these people up for a while is a landslide victory from McCain. The Dinosaur media will continue to dwindle and the Left will continue with their excuses.
You must not remember the sixties, we are in calm, placid times right now.
Everybody is thinking of the US Civil War — which was a specific type of civil war (a regional secession movement).
I agree with you, Ray. There is no regional component to this conflict to crystalize it along historically familiar lines. It’s much more likely to be civil unrest. A renewed interest in civilian militias (which the Media will portray as Cults or Organized Crime). Widespread civil disobedience (including tax evasion).
Maybe closer to that schlockey Kevin Costner movie, “The Postman”, but without the post-apocalyptic overtones.
It seems their desire to take it has been greater, and was met with apathy, or many just didn't want to believe what was happening. Lets hope it's not too late.
Before someone raises the dread “S” word (sedition), it might be worthwhile to point out that our enemy will not be the lawfully constituted government per se, but the shadow government of NGOs, activist gangs like ACORN, the media industrial complex, and the leftists who hijacked the education system in the 1960s.
Good, my side has most of the guns and a ton of military training.
I am with you.
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Hope this helps.
Weimar America.
There has been plenty of friction between blacks and hispanics over jobs and turf. Black leaders have been reluctant to discuss it and prefer to sell out their community to win favor and benefit personally. I am part of a grassroots immigrant activist group fighting illegal immigration as well as changing our legal immigration policies. One part of our group is involved in DC, called Defend DC. I can tell you that there are plenty of blacks who are very upset with illegal immigration. And why shouldn't they be, with the current BLS statistics for August showing an unemployement rate for blacks of 10.6% compared to the national average of 6.1%. And the rates are much higher in urban areas and among teenages and young adults.
Blacks wont and dont fight to work
That is just racist nonsense. What we have is a collapse of the family structure [68% of blacks are born out of wedlock with Hispanics next at 50%], poverty, a failed educational system that sees dropout rates as high as 75% in cities like Detroit and about 50% nationally [the Hispanic dropout rate is even higher], and rampant drug use. Half of the children under 5 today are minorities and by 2023 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities. By 2042, half of the residents of this country will be minorities and by 2050 one in five will be foreign born. Demography is destiny.
Until you are ready to die for your neighbor and he for you this is all just mental jerking off.
Civil war? Don't fear because it will never happen.
The braggadocio gun owners with their nice homes, nice cars and kids in school will never cross the line of insurrection. Their 2nd Amendment right will take a back seat to losing their walk around and buy things rights.
Insurrection should have occurred on behalf of Randy Weaver but nothing happened. Insurrection should have occurred when the various firearms stores around the country were busted by the BATF in trumped up charges but nothing happened.
Sorry to inform you but folks in this country are too darn comfortable in their perfect worlds to get involved in a messy civil war............
Maybe when the kids are too old for soccer or baseball or football but not right now............
I have updated my FMCDH (From My Cold Dead Hands) sign-off with the addition of (BITS).....Blood In The Streets, which I foresee coming soon, due to the enormous increase of the Marxist progressive movement being shoved down the throat of this failing REPUBLIC through the Judicial tyranny of fiat law, the passing of unconstitutional laws by the Legislative and Executive branches of our government and the enormous tax burden placed upon the average American to support unconstitutional programs put forth by Marxist ideology. I do not advocate revolution. I only think of what I foresee.
FMCDH(BITS)
producers vs parasites. Its time for the producers to shrug.
Don't wait until then. One gun a month, remember?
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