It’s Time To Stop Our Cold Civil War From Heating Up

The Federalist ^ | June 5, 2017 | Clifford Humphrey

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

You can’t negotiate or even talk to leftist psychopaths. Bill Ayers is living proof of that.

[roadcat]

Climate change or global warming will do it.

Heh-heh! Yesterday I was building new planter boxes in front of my mother-in-law's house in San Francisco. Some young guy walks over to me and starts some chit-chat, then asks if I would like to discuss climate change. I asked "Who are you?", and he said "I'm from GreenPeace, and I'd like to talk about the guy in the Oval Office.".

I said "Oh, I voted for President Trump! I support everything he's for! Did you know that Global Warming is a hoax?". The young man dropped his jaw, backed away and said "Have a good day." and slithered away. Guess he really didn't want to discuss climate change after all. Or maybe it was the NRA stickers on my truck in front of the house. Civil War is coming...

[Boomer]

Correct. The left hasn’t accepted the last two republican Presidents as legitimate. Therefor we are close to war escalation.

I suspect both sides are wound so tight at this point it will be some really stupid thing that sets it off. I almost thought the griffin art debacle might do it. It definitely ratcheted it up a notch or two.

[Kickass Conservative]

Interesting read, but WTH is this? >>> Trump is often vulgar

Vulgar? I guess the Bar is set a little low for this guy.

[Kickass Conservative]

Waiting for the Shot heard round the World, part two...

[VanDeKoik]

“Anyone ostensibly on the right who cautions about a slide into violence is not to be trusted.

They just don’t want us to defend ourselves. And they most certainly do not want us to prevail.”

Its called keeping a few trigger happy big mouths from causing a bigger mess by blowing a person’s head off needlessly over political disagreements.

Frankly people on both sides speak the language of war too easily, and think that any fight will be relatively bloodless, one-sided, and over by Christmas. THOSE are the people that cannot be trusted.

There are too many damn Rambos out there looking for glory, and too hell with anything else. Seriously do people that pine for a shooting war so badly ever read a history book?

[Gene Eric]

Civil war? It’s a commie insurgency!

[Hardastarboard]

Took the words right out of my mouth. They aren’t abiding by the rules now. Two words explain that perfectly - Judicial Activism.

[rlmorel]

You beat me to it. Their view of the Constitution is that it is something that interferes with achieving their liberal utopia, and that it should be destroyed, disregarded, or bypassed with no apology to reach their objectives.

Nearly every single liberal not of the useful idiot variety (and even many of them) feel that way...including every single member of the prior administration.

Liberals are a cancer.

[Pollster1]

“It’s Dangerous to Force Others’ Assent”

When they weaponized government to enforce not just “tolerance” but active participation in and support for choices that violate scripture, that was the beginning of the end of civil discourse. When Big Government fined two bakers $135k for refusing to customize a cake with an endorsement of a gay parody of marriage, we knew that freedom of religion was being murdered and the constitutional ban on excessive fines was being eviscerated.

When Big Government did the same to photographers, florists, Bed and Breakfast owners, and all other Christians who were minding their own business, we knew this was about power. Thugs on the left get a kick out of bullying and controlling others. It’s about good and evil.

The Second Civil War is already happening. Our only choice is whether we will be unarmed Yazidis cowering on a mountaintop three years ago, where they were surrounded and given a choice of extermination or enslavement, or we will be Israeli soldiers standing up in The Valley of Tears in 1973 to face odds of 5:1 and 10:1 but still winning. Trusting to the tender mercies of the Ctrl-Left is not a choice I am willing to make. We already know how they treat those they are able to crush.

I will not assent. I hope the terrorists on the political left understand just how dangerous it is (to them) to attempt to force assent.

[trebb]

Can't be effective with "Constitutional rules of engagement" when the enemy who has started the war loathes the Constitution and insists that using violence is a valid for of speech. The author pretty much told us why we can't use the "civil discourse" method when he wrote, "The question on the table today is whether the Left as a whole will continue to abide by the rulebook and rely on the political process—which includes a guarantee of free speech—or try through nefarious means to destroy opposing opinions with force. The former is a choice for the Constitution; the latter—let us speak candidly—is the beginnings of a declaration of war."

IOW - to quote a phrase from an old John Prine song, - "Far From Me" A question ain't really a question If you know the answer too.."

[Albion Wilde]

This author implies that Trump got us to the level of possible CW, all by himself, in a mere matter of months.

No, he did not. Just the opposite. He said it's been buidling up for a long time, and that Trump merely called it as it is instead of denying it and covering it up with political correctness

[Robert DeLong]

That certainly is apart of it, but it goes much deeper than that. It really starts with our educational system which has been controlled by American hating forces for many decades. That has enabled them to turn the youth against the power structures and institutions of this country. Now each day they gain more and more control over those institutions and power structures from top to bottom. In addition there are those that should know better, like John McCain & Linsey Graham for example (though they are not exclusive by any means), who only care about feathering their own nests.

Sadly, the majority will not realize until it is too late I fear, that they were used to participate in their own demise. In addition they will figure out they aided the creeps like McCain & Lindey, and the majority, if not the entirety, of the Democrat Party self-centered individuals. They will learn that all animals may be equal, but some are more equal than others. When the animals, that are more equal have no further use for them, that is when that realization will hit home for them.