[RoosterRedux]

Clausewitz, who knows a good bit about war, defined politics as "war by other means."

By de-emphasizing what the Left is doing as "not war," you are giving them a pass.

This is what they are counting on.

A war doesn't become a war when the shooting starts. If that were the case, it would exclude an enemy's efforts to set up infrastructure (intelligence agents, special operators, lines of communications, means of disruption/sabotage, etc.) behind the lines of their target before shooting commences as acts of war.

[Buttons12]

Go ahead and equate today’s political climate with the American Civil War, or any war, but count me out. I think it’s absurd.

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Clausewitz, who knows a good bit about war, defined politics as "war by other means."

Other way around.

"War is merely the continuation of politics by other means."

"Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln."

What you said is what people are saying now to sound tough.