Posted on 05/17/2010 10:20:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Next American Civil War: The Populist Revolt Against the Liberal Elite
Lee Harris
Remember those rowdy Town-Hall meetings last summer sparked by President Obamas proposed health-care reform? Harris wants to make the case that those eruptions of populist anger could prove to be the beginning of the next American civil war. Yes, that kind of civil war. Drawing from a wealth of history and political philosophy, he contends that the philosophical divide between the Tea Party populists and the liberal intellectuals is so deep that nothing short of a civil breakdown is likely to mend the rift. And he says thats healthy American politics. The Tea Party may be a fledgling political outfit, but its already flexing its muscles in advance of the midterm elections, especially in Senate races in Utah, Arizona, and Florida. The big question, of course, is how disruptive will this third party be? To Harris, the answer is very. He argues that if the liberal intellectuals and populist conservatives dont come to an understanding, it could spell violent revolution and lead to an overthrow of the government.
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1.Either take up arms, or drop the rhetoric. The 18th-century Sons of Liberty, who drove the populist uprising against the British crown, sparked violent riots, committed serious crimes, and fought against the government. The cause? Taxes, of course! Harris says that todays Tea Party activists may echo much of the same language as the Sons of Liberty, but they havent backed up all that talk with action: If those who claim to be fighting in the name of liberty are not prepared to go to extremes, if they are reluctant to break either laws or windows, then perhaps it would be best if they just dropped their pointlessly inflammatory rhetoric, and got back to reality(continued)
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You know...I liked the Phillipines...
San Miguel beer is like a box of chocolates...You never know what you’re gonna get...
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hmmm greeeeat...Newsweek must need to incite a civil war to justify their existense...
Like some say, be careful what you wish for...
These elitist morons have no understanding of our patience and forebearance, or their limits. THey have no idea of the can of whoop-ass that could be opened in a nation where there are uncounted millions of scoped deer rifles. But we understand the horror of the USA "going Bosnia," and have no desire for a CW2. But neither will we be turned into socialist slaves of the "USSA" without a bitter fight.
They are one and the same, Friend, like a hand and glove.
Allow me to retort: Be careful what you wish for.
I lasted 1 minute, 20 seconds ;-)
Really??? Ya think???
We will all participate through the voice we have at the ballot box...
Don’t ever assume that Ghandi totally had the right idea...His opposition blinked just at the right time...
Our opposition doesn’t believe anyone will oppose it peacefully or by force...They are looking for people just like you...You’ll fit right in...
Is it beyond your comprehension to imagine this country would not go to force again to reclaim freedom???
See, that’s one of the problems with the Tea Partiers...They have a few people, like you, that believe they speak for the movement...Ya don’t...
One thing we do agree on, we had better hope it never comes to violence...But if it does...I highly recommend you lay low...Join or Die...There will not be much tolerance for coat-tail riders when this is over...
But like I said, lets hope we can get it done at the ballot box...And hope we never lose that mechanism...
Ghandi succeeded because he had civilized opponents.
We have no such luxury.
Don’t confuse moral and legal arguments. Slavery was a state’s right. There is no question about it.
Yes. I've been saying that ever since the movie came out in 1982.
“No issue but Slavery lead men to political violence in the antebellum period. Without Slavery all other issues between the North and South could be dealt with in the normal political progress”
Anyone saying that is so ignorant of history as to not even be worthy of discussion.
If those who claim to be fighting in the name of liberty are not prepared to go to extremes, if they are reluctant to break either laws or windows, then perhaps it would be best if they just dropped their pointlessly inflammatory rhetoric, and got back to reality
He wants a civil war while Obammy controls the police and military so he has an excuse to cleanse the Nation of his political and social enemies in the name of terrorism. He wants conservatives to start it rather than watch his Dear Reader weakly try to incite a race war or pull a Waco kinda of murder or a false flag operation to get a reaction. He wants Lincoln.
Conservatives have not played along in a violent reaction to the Left’s threats of State violence and hatred. They laughed at Obama’s jack booted police force at the Tea Party in Indiana or was it Illinois. The image of those grandmas sitting in their lawn chairs singing “God Bless America” facing Obammy’s jack booted ninjas lined up across the street, was just too funny to get the desired reaction from Obama’s enemies so the police would have an excuse to shoot and arrest them. And Holder’s “white milita” effort where the judge ridiculed his police action as unfounded in court did not advance the ball of public fear and hysteria either. Then they had the terrible disappointment and indignity watching the New York bomber drama unfold. It was not a white man; rather muslim and Marxists got laughed at for acting “stupidly” again. So far Bammy’s call for race war against whitey is coming up empty his dream of a machette chopping African American dream of civil war is slipping way. The Lincoln wannabe is looking like a kook.
This comrade knows his power is slipping and it is just around the corner when liberals will be unprogressed again! They are most upset to see their well positioned comrades across the aisle getting canned in election primaries. The Rinos operating in sneaky and silent cooperation is the linch pin for making this radical’s “change” possible. The bi-partisan plan to slam and demoralize Americans before they knew what hit them did not work. Those tea party grannies and gramps...and Sarah Palin’s timely death panel commentary!
The Left has worked hard on taking over the GOP for a long time and now they see it slipping away as their Rinos get canned in election after election. Bam’s radicalism has cooked the goose of his party...this is a comrade’s death wheeze - begging us to do something to give them an excuse to kill and imprison us before we send them packing in Washington. Ole Obama wants to be Lincoln so badly. This comrade is pleading - please let Obammy be Lincoln rather than Stalin!
The Massachusetts Senator had considerably overstepped the bounds of deceny in calling another Senator a whore-mongor on the floor of the Senate. Issues of honor were taken seriously at the time, we were still in the generation of our leaders who fought duels. I do see a parallel with today. The left not only disagrees with the right, they take extreme pleasure in mocking us. They count on our infinite patience with their adolescent toilet language. They count on someone or something to protect them from those the mock: annonymity, the distance of the internet, conventions of society, the police.
See the rude, profane and mocking video aimed at Dick Army above. What they do not understand, in doing so, is that not all of us are bound by their unstated code, that some still cling to older codes.
I imagine that a caining or two, in some form, will proceed our next Civil War, for much the same reasons that it preceeded the last one.
hmm
I bring my own magazines and leave them in those offices. Typically gun magazines, or The New American (John Birch) or The WND Whistle Blower. Just a small effort on my part to spread real Truth, Justice and the real "American Way."
Excellent points all. We would do well to remember who the real enemies of America are...
Yep, you aren't going overthrow this government with force cowboy!
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