Posted on 05/31/2019 11:52:18 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich
Dr. Jack Minzey on Civil War in U.S. Today
….Jack passed away Sunday, 8 April 2018.
Professionally, Jack was head of the Department of Education at Eastern Michigan University, as well as a prolific author of numerous books, most of which were on the topic of Education and the Government role therein.
This is the last of his works:
Civil War
How do civil wars happen?
Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can't settle the question through elections because they don't even agree that elections are how you decide who's in charge. That's the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country.
When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.
The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it's not the first time they've done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn't really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There's a pattern here.
What do sure odds of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don't accept the results of any election that they don't win. It means they don't believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections. That's a civil war.
There's no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the Democrats have rejected our system of government
This isn't dissent. It's not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they're the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election.
When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don't win, what you want is a dictatorship. Your very own dictatorship .
The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to Democrats, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it's inherently illegitimate. The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can't scratch his own back without his say so, that's the civil war.
Our system of government is based on the constitution, but that's not the system that runs this country. The Democrat's system is that any part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the country.
If the Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do anything And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. His power is unlimited. He's a dictator.
But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the President can't do anything. He isn't even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented. A Democrat in the White House has 'discretion' to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn't even have the 'discretion' to reverse him. That's how the game is played That's how our country is run. Sad but true, although the left hasn't yet won that particular fight.
When a Democrat is in the White House, states aren't even allowed to enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission but, under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries.
The Constitution has something to say about that.
Whether it's Federal or State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left moves power around to run the country. If it controls an institution, then that institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land. This is what I call a moving dictatorship.
Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding: Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds. You can't serve in if you're not a member. If you haven't been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals. If you aren't in the club. And Trump isn't in the club. He brought in a bunch of people who aren't in the club with him.
Now we're seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them, and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down. That's not a free country.
It's not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an 'insurance policy' against Trump winning the election. It's not a free country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the opposition. It's not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media. It's not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn't supposed to win did.
Have no doubt, we're in a civil war between conservative volunteer government and a leftist Democrat professional government.
Good ole Mom!
They will cheat so they always win the elections.
Words have meaning.
Arguing and straining rules does not a civil war make.
Killing political opponents (beyond the rare nutcase) to compel submission does.
It is a COLD CIVIL WAR.
Excellent reading.
Unlike a lot of Freepers, the last thing I want is a Civil War.
A lot of my ancestors died during the last civil war, and many including the ones, who were mothers or became mothers during and after the war died in their 20-30’s. My Dad’s mother died when she in her mid 20’s and apparently had poor health.
However, the left wingers who control DC and our government have declared civil war on us as this excellent writer tells us.
Rather than view it as another Civil War, I like to think we would be fighting another Revolutionary war.
We could even use the same Declaration of Independence, just adding a few grievances to the list and addressing it to the Federal Government instead of King George.
Re-ratify the constitution and roll back a bunch of the amendments that never should have been passed.
I think Wall Street and Silicon Valley need far less revenue.
Avoid buying mutual funds and certain products and services.
Our votes will be drowned out by illegals, but our dollars in our wallets and purses can speak loud and clear.
We are in a Civil War in which only one side is fighting.
If a poll was ever conducted with the question “Is our two party system working” ? The response would be 90% negative. What is being employed by This so called coup d’etat against Trump should not be viewed as against Trump but an impeachment of our constitution. .
Everything the man has attempted to get done has been blocked by a radical group composed mainly of members of the democrat party in top leadership legislative and judicial branches of government who view the constitution as an obstacle to their concepts of government intrusion on individdual liberty guaranteed by it as they advance their policies.
Don’t forget the re-education work camps for opponents.
Thank you. This is an attempt to define
Civil War down and strip if of meaning.
When the actual war comes, it will be
more than words.
Although, some say we are already in a
Civil War involving killing that only
one side is waging.
“Unlike a lot of Freepers, the last thing I want is a Civil War“
It’s likely the only way I’ll be able to get rid of the lazy left wing bastard living next door.
When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.”””
If Trump wins next election the left will meltdown. If he loses I doubt I’ll be able to believe he wasn’t cheated. The guns gonna start in ‘20...
The FUNS gonna’ start in “20. (Although guns might not be far off).
OK, OK, it’s Snopes; but Snopes says it’s not by Dr. Minzey, and is a mishmash of several viral emails.
We are in a Civil War in which only one side is fighting.
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I know what you are saying, however, when analyzed, you are wrong.
Both sides are fighting...you are giving the traitor side, (McConnell, Ryan, most of our R-congressmen, R-senators), credit for being on our side, but they really are on the traitor, the Coup-side.
Our side, like you, me, PDJT, Nunes, etc., are fighting the civil war with the Left, commies, MSM, etc.
Semantics, but I had to correct it. thanks!
Playing Cowboys and Democrats could be interpreted as a Civil War.
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