Posted on 07/26/2018 7:41:23 AM PDT by Enlightened1
In the summer of 1862, just weeks before the Battle of Sharpsburg (or Antietam) — the bloodiest single day of fighting in American history — Union Captain George Armstrong Custer attended the wedding of Confederate Captain John “Gimlet” Lea at Bassett Hall in Williamsburg, Virginia, as best man. The Union officer was dressed in blue, the Confederate officer in grey, and Custer being Custer spent the next two weeks flirting with the Southern belle cousin of the bride, even joining her in singing “Dixie.”
At one point she told him, “You ought to be in our army.”
“What would you give me if I resigned my commission in the Northern army and joined the Southern?”
“You are not in earnest, are you?”
He wasn’t, of course. Custer was nothing if not loyal, and he believed that he was bound to the Union by the oath he had sworn at West Point, whatever his affection for Southern officers and their ladies.
Such gallantry seems unthinkable today, when members of the Trump administration are hounded from restaurants and theatres, and Confederate officers like John Lea, if they are remembered at all, are considered precursors of the German National Socialists, and their once famous and respected commanders like Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jeb Stuart have their statues toppled and banished from public squares, their names stripped from public schools, and their memories spat upon and disgraced.
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Yes
It could be the worst cataclysm faced by the world so far
Or not
bkmk
No most don’t
A lot of people in 1860 thought a civil war was inevitable.
Yes, we are often a bunch of backstabbing fools. I see it in political races all the time where "our" people join with the Democrats in destroying one of our candidates.
Deer Hunting if it is in November. Its open season and no bag limit on Zombies the rest of the year.
Shhhhhh! Don’t tell them!
I am not so sure.
More importantly, LTC Thomas Kratman is not so sure. These are some articles on what a US Civil War would be like:
http://www.everyjoe.com/2015/01/12/politics/breakup-of-united-states-terrible-idea/#1
http://www.everyjoe.com/2015/01/26/politics/breakup-of-united-states-political-alignments/
^^This.^^ Palestinians flying home made kites with road flares attached into your crops. Ferals of all color trying to disrupt society on a 9-11 scale. Liberal children throwing rocks at police, baiting them into ambush. I dont wanna see it happen but encourage them to get their $hit together and launch while Trump is in office. Without Trump in Washington there simply wont be anyone there left to hate.
Omaha will go up in flames.
Of course, the rest of the state may be holding the matches.
But the infrastructure will fail first. Take down electricity for the wells, and many places become untenable. Take out the supply lines for food, and cities fall.
And I am not a anarchist. Just someone who has studied enough logistics to know that a regional spat would not just be isolated to the coasts. Just in time, grid integration, and heck shipping water and power to CA sets us up for some rather interesting times.
Kratman knows his stuff.
Talked with the man a few times. Writes good fiction too.
Ruthless, maybe. But once the Normals decide it's on, it's on.
If many people on the right reached out and "touched someone," it would be over within 24 hours. Millions gone, overwhelmingly from the leech class.
I'm not proposing that, of course, just speculating.
Excellent
Did you go to LibertyCon this year?
He always puts on good panels.
Incidentally, birthrate predictions, as most demographic predictions of future trends, almost never prove accurate. Reality can turn on a dime as it were.
Same was said about the CW 1, WWI, WWII.
CW 2 will last a lot longer than 24 hours.
But I understand the sentiment.
Harrumph! You DO mean: THE WAR OF NORTHERN AGGRESSION don't you!?
I wonder if any other country in history has so voluntarily changed its demographic alignment?
You guys forget the immediate precursor to civil war: settling of scores. It’ll be yuge....
I think you're comparing apples and pineapples. The so-called authorities in 1776 were considered by the "legitimate" authority, the King, to be traitors to the Crown and criminals.
During the Civil War the legitimacy of the Confederacy came from the consent of the governed.
Both were wars of independence. The next Civil War, if any, will be to maintain the lawful government against a coup, an internal insurrection, a revolt against the Rule of Law, against anarchy.
The current government is the lawful authority. We delegate authority; in a sense, we are the lawful authority.
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