Posted on 04/25/2023 11:18:33 AM PDT by Starman417
Over the last few years, many people have wondered if our country was headed for another Civil War. Maybe they started wondering back in 98 with the Clinton impeachment, or 2000 when the election didn’t have a clear winner. Maybe they started wondering on 911, or after the invasion of Iraq. No doubt many wondered after the FBI put their fingers on the scale of the 2016 election, or during the two partisan impeachments. The MSM and Democrats had no problem trying to convince the world that Jan 6 was an insurrection (albeit while conveniently forgetting the 3 days in Jan 2017 when Democrats rioted and burned DC). There has been a Great Recession that took longer than the Great Depression to recover, a pandemic, lockdowns, George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, and record levels of poverty. Roe vs Wade, mass shootings, gun rights, and militant Marxist transvestite mass murderers. There’s been a lot of extremely divisive moments and issues in the past 25 years, and these are just a few!
Perhaps the most divisive and most explosive issue has yet to really reach a boiling point: Reparations. It’s the idea that 13% of the population who were never slaves should be paid by 87% of the population who never owned slaves. That 13% doesn’t just want to be paid, but paid TRILLIONS of dollars. Increasingly they are being convinced by Democratic Party leaders and mainstream media that not only are reparations to be considered, but they are a debt owed; that each person in that 13% should be paid millions of dollars for nothing they did and nothing they suffered.
It was an issue in the 2020 election where every democratic Presidential candidate said they agreed with the idea. Several universities, cities, and states are already actively considering their own reparations to the 13%. In 2024 it will be a much bigger issue. Nothing buys votes better than the promise of a chicken in every pot-except the promise of millions of dollars in cash in every bank account. Who would turn down the check after being told for decades that they were victims, and that the money was owed to them; that they had a right to be paid?!
Conversely, 87% of the American people must be convinced to pay. 10-20% of the 87% are Democrats who will agree with anything the party says is right. For example, the party can tell people that while public schools are failing, while there’s little or no money for arts, music, and sports there should be money for drag queens to give lap dances to 8yr old kids…and most Democrats will agree with it. However, of the remainder of that 87%, how many are Asian, Hispanic, and Native American who all would ask, “Um, where’s MY reparations millions?” How many whites from families who came to America long after the Civil War would ask, “What should I pay for something that happened long before my family became Americans?” What of the people who take their oaths to become American citizens next Monday “We just became citizens-why should WE pay millions of dollars?” What about the people who are asked to pay reparations who watch TV and see mass riots in Chicago, huge bands of people robbing stores in NYC, or a mob breaking into and cleaning out a gas station in LA-why should they pay millions to the 13% that’s responsible for most of the violent crime in the country?
The case for and against reparations is huge. There’s a wealth of pro/con articles, books, and speeches that one can research. When studying the subject, it becomes less of a giveaway to the 13%, much smaller than demanded, more reasonable, and more understanding. The brutal fact is, however, most people aren’t going to study the pros/cons. They’re gonna watch their preferred media spin and parrot the opinion they like the best with the half-truths and half-facts they’re shown.
The partisan divide, the massive scale of reparations demanded, and the undisputed fact that reparations will not repair the damage of slavery make it the best issue to cause a civil war. Imagine how you would react if you were told you had to pay hundreds of thousands in taxes for reparations? How about when you see that your 4 year old daughter has to pay the same millions of dollars? Now imagine the craziest person you know getting told the same thing. The potential for violence, mass violence, and even something like Civil War is real.
A second American Civil War would not be like the 1860 War Between the States.
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There isn’t much of a case for reparations at all.
Further plenty of whites would be up for reparations then as white slavery in America existed and in decent numbers.
Start Taxpayer Reparations.
In other words, tax cuts.
Don’t skip over the divorce part ( formerty called secession, Can’t use secession because squishes find it offensive ). If a state seperation doee not work then there wil be plenty of time to kill each other.
“War against the Crazies”
WTH? The author lists all the reasons it is an absolutely STUPID idea and then asserts the case FOR reparations is huge? Why the hell would he state that?
Before people get too worked up about any social issue, they need to step back and look at the numbers.
Blacks make up 15% of the population. Tops. Any national reparations plan would never pass muster. It would have to be done locally (State and local) and very few places are going to allocate for that.
These are wedge issues. They are purposely advocated to generate action on a political scale.
Wrong. He did it to keep the 700 million dollars per year produced by the South under the control of the corrupt, Northern controlled Washington DC government that is *STILL* using their power to funnel money into corrupt pockets.
The "shadow government" that is rigging elections and selling influence (like Hunter Biden) is still in power from the Civil War era.
Why stir up the blacks? Who wins, and how do they win?
Takers vs Makers. There will be blood.
Another reason it’s possible is that the people are armed to the teeth.
The civil war will start over guns.
They mean for us to be defenseless against their tyranny.
That will not happen.
Round up all the liberals and send them to California, maybe lop-off the top-third of the state to keep some ports.
Erect a border fence around it
Do the same to NY City all the way to Albany
Thirty-two trillion was a whole lot of looting.
Slavery was a private matter.
The federal government might have collected $10/head upon import, but the typical slave never saw a federal person again until the Civil War of 1861-1865.
Minorities (particularly blacks) are to neo-Marxists (ie. Democrats) what factory workers were to old-school Marxists.
They are the center of their slogans, the axis of their street organization ability, and the must-have political bloc to sustain legitimacy of their ideology
Hello, folks. Hate to break it to you, CWII is going on all around us and the article mentions many of the battles. CWII will only go fully kinetic when one or the other side gets a significant upper hand and starts exterminating the other side.
Buy weapons and ammo.
THE CASE AGAINST REPARATIONS IS HUGER!
“War against the Crazies”
I am of the opinion that a second civil war is no longer avoidable.
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