Posted on 05/23/2024 7:01:47 AM PDT by Starman417
The 19th century Prussian general Karl Von Clausewitz famously said: “War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.” or as we more often hear it, “War is but politics by different means.”
War is what generally happens when two (or more) sides get to a point where they can no longer peacefully coexist with the current circumstances. We’re there…
How does one know a civil war is coming? Have you been on a college campus lately?
2024 is an echo of 1968, the original Summer of Love. Today, the ostensible catalyst for what we’re seeing on campuses across the country is the Israeli “genocide” happening in Gaza. We’re seeing a virtual replay of the original “Summer of Love” where entitled students took over campuses while feckless administration cowards fiddled while their schools figuratively burned. In ’68 the students were protesting the Vietnam War (they were really protesting the draft, the war was just the rallying point) and then as now, Columbia was the epicenter.
Spreading from Columbia across the country, that summer protests raged and chats of “Hell no, we won’t go” and images of Black Power fists were everywhere to be seen and heard on the nightly news. Today the news and social media are filled with chants of “From the river to the sea,” images of Palestinian flags, BLM signs and & Antifa graffiti and anyone not wearing a keffiyeh being declared a “Zionist.”
The difference between 1968 and 2024 is that back then, most of the country disagreed with the protesters.
In November 1968 Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey in the Electoral College 301 – 191. Add to that the 46 electors that George Wallace took, and the country voted 347 to 191 against the Democrats (57% vs 43% in the popular vote). And this was at a time when most Democrats were strongly anti-Communist and being pro American was considered normal, almost required.
Today we have a completely different landscape. In 2024 Democrats are virtually indistinguishable from Communists and being pro American is seen as racist.
Hence the college protests. They’re not just pro-Hamas, they’re much, much more. These protests are very much a reflection of their time in the seemingly mainstream nature of the beliefs that power them. They’re at their core not just anti-Israel, they’re antisemitic, they’re anti-American, anti-western, anti-capitalist, anti-police, and of course, anti-white.
Sadly, all of those things are basically mainstream Democrat policies in 2024. We see every single one of them play out across the country in federal, state and local governments. From stultifying climate change regulations to the housing of illegals to DEI diktats to the reimagining of police, there’s virtually nothing that government does today that isn’t infused with the workings of a leftist’s wet dream. And at the end of the day, while some new incremental CAFE standard from Washington or a DEI hire at the local university might not sound particularly onerous, in reality they’re just more bars of the leftist policy prison being implemented around the country.
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“The 500,000 or so non REMF army is going to suppress over 150,000 million people? I’d say half the army defects too.”
Read my home page, they’ll bring us to our knees without ever leaving their keyboards in DC - your army of 150 million people will be lucky to gather 150 people.
It’s not as easy as it was nearly 200 years ago, when DC was actually VERY FAR away. DC is now in your bank account, credit cards, car movements, electricity supply, gas supply, water supply. It’s now endless, but feel free to try!
Texas alone could have a multi million man militia OVERNIGHT.
“Come on, our army is a paper tiger.”
We’re finding that out in Ukraine, but the army that will defeat you guys sit behind keyboards in DC. One email from them to Chase, for example, or T-Mobile, and you’ll understand the power they now have.
“Texas alone could have a multi million man militia OVERNIGHT.”
Read post 23, once their phones shut off and their cards don’t work, they’ll fold as quick as the Canadian truckers.
Dont project your lack testicular fortitude on everyone else. You and I have never experienced living in a collapsing empire. Things will get crazy.
Running with your comparison, we already know who ‘Hitler’ would be (and the left thinks the exact opposite). The Gestapo? Also already figured out. Brownshirts? Ditto.
And, if Jews in America truly come under persecution, they have a place to go that the Jews back in the 1,930s did not have...Israel. I honestly think that if American Jews needed to flee, Israel would take them in...at least, the ones willing to defend Israel.
I never realized you were a boot licker. Surprising....
Stop feeding, clothing, and sheltering them
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Most protests anymore, are not organic whatsoever and the few that are usually get co-opted. The upper middle class white kids that are ready to drink the kool aid on the latest woke cause aren’t down for any real struggle. Some of the kids who were provided tents and chairs actually wanted food catered for them!!!
So you’re right, cut them off. The only problem with that is, who is ‘in charge’, and what is there position on the issue.
If there are american flags at the protest, they will be shut down (and locked up). If their are flags with arabic on them, they will be catered to.
If there is a protest to stop congential males from participating in female sports, they will be shut down. Not true for the other side of the fence.
Etc. Etc.
The real problem in our current power structure is the right to unilaterally decide who has first amendment rights, and who doesn’t.
“I never realized you were a boot licker. Surprising....”
You live in a world that existed 100 or more years ago - but feel free to dream. The feds have so much power that they don’t even bother with your type - they LAUGH AT YOU.
The NASDAQ and NYSE are public enemies number 1&2.
They and their shareholders and their ~$50 trillion in wealth need to be thrown to the leftist wolves.
Man, your tongue is stuck to that boot.....
Dear Amazon:
Kindly do not service the Washington, DC metro area.
Dear upscale DC retailer:
Please discount the expensive stuff for EBT cardholders and do not reorder it.
“Man, your tongue is stuck to that boot.....”
Feel free to go door-to-door and round up a posse...see what happens next.
If a state, your state, secedes you will have no choice. You will be and enemy of the USA if they so choose to look at it that way. I say the empire splits up peacefully.
“One email from them to Chase, for example, or T-Mobile, and you’ll understand the power they now have.”
Many here work in the trades. Deals can be made.
America is headed for a Civil War... hopefully.
“One email from them to Chase, for example, or T-Mobile, and you’ll understand the power they now have.”
AR-15 discount, please
Apples and oranges. Nobody is being drafted (yet) to fight for globohomo. If they do, there will be mass protests and I will be right there with them.
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