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To: mairdie

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/is_a_second_civil_war_coming.html

Is a Second Civil War Coming?

By Jeff Lukens

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Civil wars are horrendous and bloody affairs. That’s why we should avoid them. They happen when two sides cannot settle on who runs the country. When they can’t reconcile the matter through elections, the country falls apart. When one side does not accept the election results, we have a countdown to a civil war.

This is the thesis put forth by journalist Daniel Greenfield. It rings true on many levels.

Does the fact that Democrats are rejecting a duly elected Republican president really mean they don’t accept the results of any election they don’t win? If so, we may be already nearing America’s Second Civil War.

It is no secret that Democrats and Republicans are more ideologically divided than in recent years. Parts of the country detest the other parts. Coastal elites dislike flyover country. The blue states despise the red states, and vice versa.

We may now be near a point comparable to 1860. Modern Democrats hate President Trump as much as the Democrats of old hated President Lincoln. Democrats repudiated Lincoln for opposing slavery, and modern Democratic leaders are repudiating Lincoln’s belief that the government is of the people, for the people, and by the people. Then as now, Democrats are on the wrong side of history.

The average conservative and the average liberal disagree on the vast majority of the issues, and in the few cases where they can agree, each won’t support the other out of sheer tribalism for his side. Since Democrats can’t win the argument with reason and facts, they try to intimidate us into silence. While Trump is their focus, we should know that the loathing is really against normal everyday Americans.

The Constitution plays a central role in the disagreement. On the right are those who believe in its use as a restraint on government that can be altered only by a broad consensus through the amendment process. Conservatives believe that natural rights are created by God and that government cannot invent or alter them.

On the Left are those who believe in the living Constitution. This is a notion that the document is outdated and should change easily. The main method for doing this would be judicial rulings bypassing Congress and the voters. Basically, they just make it up as they go along.

The Left’s reach is broad. Leftists have been able to take over schools and indoctrinate our young people. They have taken over nearly all the news and entertainment media. The conservative side, conversely, has lost in these areas because it never fights back with the ruthlessness of the Left.

Lawlessness is now reaching across the United States, which the news almost totally ignores. The same networks that spent two years with wall-to-wall coverage to push the Russia collusion hoax are now refusing to report the documented attempt to remove our duly elected president by means of a Deep State silent coup.

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The answer is that when they don’t have facts to support their arguments, they must resort to intimidation. The narrative is designed to keep people in a constant state of fear, thereby forcing rage and violence. They want us divided by race, class, religion, political affiliation, and more.

All they care about is control, and they will do anything to hold on to it. They want to keep people poor and in need of government assistance. The bigger the government, the more power leftists possess. When we are in need, we are weak. Divided, we are weak. When we are weak, we do not fight back. When we are united, strong, and independent, we think for ourselves and challenge what we are told to believe.

This is a dangerous time. Americans in 1859 had no idea of the cataclysm that lay ahead for them just a few years later. Nothing is certain, and hopefully we will avoid a similar disaster. We may have differences, but America is profoundly good and needs only sensible corrections that reasonable people can agree upon. We hope and pray that our differences do not escalate into a Second Civil War.


2,664 posted on 02/28/2019 1:17:18 PM PST by mairdie (http://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/catharineburnett/hotshots.htm)
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To: mairdie

Is a Second Civil War Coming?

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It’s here already. It’s happening all around us.

Folks are all confused because it doesn’t look like our first Civil War, nor like the Spanish Civil War or the English Civil War. It’s not organized armies opposing each other on a field of battle.

But it is a war and it is being fought. Blood is being shed and it is for the soul of our nation.


2,671 posted on 02/28/2019 1:21:35 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: mairdie

“When we are in need, we are weak. Divided, we are weak. When we are weak, we do not fight back. When we are united, strong, and independent, we think for ourselves and challenge what we are told to believe. “

Sounds familiar.

These people I think know they are unpopular. They intend to take over by sheer force of will and they must be CRUSHED and if that means war, then by God the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and tyrants.


2,725 posted on 02/28/2019 2:56:41 PM PST by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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To: mairdie
"The answer is that when they don’t have facts to support their arguments, they must resort to intimidation"

Its much more than intimidation. The real question becomes . . . is that campaign of intimidation organic or manufactured? Consider . . .

Finally, we learn the truth of the Steele Dossier

Civil War II was openly declared with Michael Cohen public testimony.

Michael Cohen's public testimony revealed the truth regarding the dossier. It was never about Trump - Russian collusion in particular! The purpose of the Dossier was to be a machination to initiate an open-end investigation into all-things Trump regarding his 30 year multi-billion dollar finances. Simple as that!

Cohen's testimony was the trigger.

Yes, the battle on the street and intimidation that we witness is very much part of the coup. (See and study the Ukraine 2014 coup model) The very same plan of action and attack is being used here. Painfully obvious to anyone who studied that coup.

In studying the Ukraine coup, the single most important element of that coup was gaining public support. They knew they could manufacturer corruption charges against the President (pretty easy in that environment) but to force him to step down required the voice of the people on the streets. Sound familiar?

2,793 posted on 02/28/2019 5:17:26 PM PST by saywhatagain
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