Posted on 08/07/2019 9:45:22 AM PDT by Jack Black
Government sponsorship of violence against opponents or complacency in the face of incitement to violence is a powerful tool of political repression. Regimes such as Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, China, and other tyrannies have used such tactics to great effect. When mobs attack anti-government demonstrators, for example, the police either disappear or stand by watching. In American cities run by Democrats and on the U.S. college and university campuses, the authorities increasingly have been standing by as radicals do the dirty work of beating up or silencing conservatives.
In societies riven by mutual hate, the people who control the police and public communications make all the difference. When they maintain impartiality, as did Germany’s Weimar government while the Nazis and Communists struggled for primacy, partisan warfare tends to be resolved politically—though the results are harsh. When societal hatred or the partiality of authorities results in deaths, long-smoldering cold civil war can blaze into holocaust.
We Americans are now facing the danger of a civil war thus ignited. We do not think of civil war this way because our Civil War from 1861 to 1865 was less a conflict within society than it was a highly organized war between states. That war notwithstanding, personal friendships and mutual esteem persisted on both sides, such as that between Ulysses S. Grant and prominent Confederate General James Longstreet.
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Yes. They remind me of the people at the end of Independence Day: Many are dead, the capitols of the world have been destroyed, and the entire planet is headed for inevitable economic, technological, and agricultural collapse...
... and the principal characters are laughing it up over accidental alien-produced fireworks.
The end of The War of the Worlds [1953 ?] was at least more realistic.
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It’s Not a
Good Day to Die!
Sounds like a Demonc’rat of today...
Civil War talk? Someone was on that track a decade+ ago...
Professor Angelo
Looking forward to chapter 2.
Civil unrest. The left is losing.
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