Posted on 08/11/2020 7:06:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There is growing worry these days about whether or not we are headed for another civil war, and whether the divisions in American society are as bad as they were in the run-up to what is still the bloodiest war in American history.
In fact, there is no comparison between the divisions between Americans today and in the run-up to the Civil War. The ones today are far worse. That doesn’t necessarily mean that we are headed for a shooting war, but we certainly may be.
A civil war is by definition a war between citizens of the same country, and the American Civil War was certainly that. Both sides revered Washington, Jefferson, and the other Founding Fathers. Confederate spokesmen often termed the war their own war for independence, insisting that it was a new iteration of the same desire for self-determination that had led to the American war of independence against Britain.
Both sides respected the United States Constitution to the extent that the Constitution of the Confederate States of America was essentially a copy of that of the nation the Confederates were leaving, with a few minor modifications. It protected the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, and the freedom of religion; it allowed for “the right of the people to keep and bear arms,” it protected citizens from unreasonable search and seizure, and contained numerous other provisions taken from the earlier Constitution.
The similarity of the new Confederate nation to the Union the rebellious states were trying to leave was epitomized by the Confederate national flag, which featured the same stars and stripes arrangement as the American flag (although the stripes, or bars, were only three, and the stars thirteen, standing for the eleven Confederate states plus Kentucky and Missouri, ).
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An independent CA would be an instant member of NATO. They are not going to be client state of China. LOL.
Almost as laughable as his idea that we wouldn’t respond to a Chinese fishing boat EMP threat by simply stating that we’d retaliate with a full nuclear strike.
Except like never before this one is purely ideology driven. Some people try to make it state vs state but it really isn’t. Houston city is as liberal as Seattle, as far as I understand.
It is more regions (rural, sometimes suburban)vs urban, but even less than that now.
Now it is much more about ideology. Which is one gets into verbal fights with relatives on facebook, some of which are in conservative cities, but they are firm liberals.
In general but some of the original BLM founders, like the black gay guy that used to visit the obama WH so often, were marxists. There are other blacks who are convinced that marxism/communism will help them. Antifa however is pretty much all young white people trained and financed by older white people.
Bottom line is, it’s Constitutional Republic VS Socialism/Marxism/Communism and antifa, wants global communism, one world government and a border-less planet.
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