James Howard Kunstler ping
That attack on Ft. Sumter had absolutely nothing at all to do with slavery and everything to do with a federal government that was going broke. The south was very prosperous.
The “nihilists” are zombies. The Walking Dead was a training film.
our present situation seems to be the exact opposite of 1861
Then the South simply wanted to leave. It wanted nothing from the rest of the country. It had a unified culture, based on its borders, and it wanted to preserve it.
Now the anger arises from a radical group who demands the right to live and thrive off the skimmings of governments and other people’s wealth and effort. There is no clear border, as this degraded culture permeates everywhere. The only border seems to be large urban vs. everywhere else, as “large urban” has enjoyed many decades of skimmings of government and bloated debt born by the nation.
Neither the Democratic Party nor their Antifa foot-soldiers have a sane and coherent approach to this set of problems.
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Has the democrat ever disavowed the actions of their antifa foot soldiers?
I question tis oft-posited and widely accepted maxim that young people are doomed, have unserviceable college debt, can’t afford houses or cars, etc. I see young people all over the place getting married, buying houses, starting families and enjoying life. The housing construction boom here in North Idaho is just staggering. New subdivisions are being build everywhere and they are quickly sold out. Buyers are young people, not retirees. I meet with lots of companies for various projects and many were founded by young people and they hire lots of even younger people just starting out. Careers are getting launched and go-getters are doing well.
What do others see in their areas? Do you see the young people ennui, woe-is-me, the whole system is stacked against me, I can’t get a job, the boomers stole it all attitude?
Great read!
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When President Buchanan tried to supply the Garrison with the Star of the West he inflamed the situation
This is probably one of the worst Kunstler takes on a social ill I have read. It is not suburbia and the lack of a car leading to nihilistic rebellion because young people have to drive a 30 year old beater past manicure lawns to get to their gender studies course at the local communism indoctrination center, aka public school and college. It is moral emptiness in broken homes run by single mothers (or commie parents if they have both), public schools, and a democrat party that supports and encourages the violence. Throw in some meth and powerful behavior modifying drugs and you get democrat party terror groups like antifa.
It ain’t suburbia.
Antifa are self-described anarcho-communists, if you believe in something so preposterous you are by default nihilist.
His depiction of American suburbia is ludicrous.
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I don’t care about Fort Sumter, but he absolutely nails it in the rest of the article. Red Badger, don’t let YOUR opinions become facts.
“When the newly-formed Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, April 1861, they ignited the Civil War.”
“they ignited...”
Sloppy writing and incorrect history.
It is widely known that Beauregard ordered the attack on his own hook. Even Wikipedia gets it right:
“Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard was an American military officer known for being the Confederate general who started the American Civil War at the battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.”
It seems to be lost that on many occasions Lincoln stated that the war was not about the issue of slavery. No one seems to know that.
The war starting s8de typically has to be in a state of crazy to start bloodshed.
No worry. FAFO.
The bloodshed rids the world of a lot of crazy, leaving just the ptsd.
War ends. Suffering continues. Sometimes some good comes of it, though much bad. Sometimes only bad comes of it.
Better to be vigilant and brave. Cowardice leads to war.
Cowards are in control, still.
First of all, the Civil War wasn’t about tariffs or state’s rights, but that’s another story for another day.
Second, the parallel to today would be more like “Bleeding Kansas” before the war, or banditry and nightriding afterwards, rather than to the Civil War itself — low-level, quasi-insurgency, rather than full-on war.
Third, Kunstler moved to far upstate New York because he didn’t like suburbia. Other people like it. He didn’t. There are also different kinds of suburbs and different kinds of suburbia and what applies to one doesn’t apply to another. That is also another story maybe for another time.