Posted on 08/19/2020 10:30:17 PM PDT by amorphous
With one exception, the wars in which the United States has engaged since its inception involved our nation against one or more external adversaries. That exception, the American Civil War (1861-1865), still elicits an emotional response among our citizens due to the inherent tragedy connected to a nation at war with itself – the whole "brother against brother" dynamic that is recalled whenever discussions of this conflict arise.
One less common aspect of our Civil War (as compared to other nations that have endured civil wars) is that America was geographically divided at the time by the Mason-Dixon line, which divided the Union and Confederate states. This more resembled traditional military conflicts with external adversaries, and has colored many Americans' idea of what a civil war is like. Unlike our Civil War, civil wars in most nations generally involve disparate or dissident factions fighting against each other and/or whatever regime is holding power.
I'm not going to say that what we've been experiencing over the last three months have been the first salvos of a civil war, but it sure looks like it. While hard-line socialists in the Democratic Party are working within the political infrastructure and behaving as though they are conducting the business of governance according to the rule of law and constitutionally established procedures, they are in fact in the process of fomenting civil war – or at least, they have made it apparent that they are willing to go that far if they are not able to gain ascendency via political means.
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And make no mistake: The two-party system in America has been an illusion and a deception for quite some time. Most Republican elected officials who support the president are only supporting him because of his popularity amongst Republicans and swing voters.
I believe it was George Washington who warned that a two party system would destroy the government. I believe he has been proven right. How could it not divide us.
Wrong
It will be a civil war (if Trump wins) or a political purge of the opposition (if Trump loses).
The Left proudly is the party of gulags and blacklisting. They are on record how they will go after those who voted in opposition to Dear Leader(s).
Not if President Trump is elected. If a Democrat is elected, well, then, yeah. Previous Democrat administrations are the reason for the riots and other unusual misbehaviors.
The problem with our Two Party system today is the same problem we recognized in the 1920s-1980s, Communism.
One of our two major parties today is Communist. Stalinist in nature.
We already have civil war and secessionist movements today and they are coming from the Left with approval from the Democrat party and the Democrat media.
I don’t believe they can pull that off. That’s like trying to hijack a plane with boxcutters these days...
I grew up literally - directly - on the Mason-Dixon line. Our local history is steeped in the history of not only the Civil War, but as far back as Washington, Braddock, and the French-Indian War. One of my mother’s great uncles was a Union soldier. Today’s generation is as lost on the lessons of history as a ghost in the fog, but some of us still remember those lessons of the past. And we still respect it. It’s hard to see and physically touch the artifacts of those times and not be moved my their meaning.
I Believe Soros is responsible for the utter unrest in this country AND I don’t know why someone in the DOJ doesn’t do something about this MONSTER!!
Under no credible model does Trump lose the election and after the election the Democrats will take whatever scraps of government that are left to them. Those scrapes will be a extremely diminished Senate seats and maybe 150 seats in the House.
With that they have nothing to fight with nor would they have anything to fight for.
That would not make for a civil war. There is no possible situation that could arise cause people to go to a civil war.
Agree. But the approaching fight isn’t going to be as civil as the first.
I’ve asked myself, why isn’t Soros in prison, many times.
Just a click from Fort Frederick.
This was a busy place.
True. It’s going to be as much (if not more) asymmetrical as it is geographical. I hope all that Sociology 101 mush they funneled into my brain in college does me some reverse good when it’s time to aim and shoot.
Half of us will be too busy working and trying to earn a good life for our families, the other half will be rioting and looting and throwing tantrums demanding reparations for all that has been sacrificed by the blood of predecessors to set them free
....UNTIL it gets like Venezeula and the supply chain breaks down, poverty creeps into the middle class infrastructure crumbles and violent crime boils over into the working peoples neighborhoods.
not until then will it turn in to a bunch of small sad and gruesome guerilla skirmishes that won't end well because the left will be supplied with heavy arms by foriegners and all we will have its whats left on the shelves of closed sporting goods stores
all this talk about civil war as a big shootout is a bunch of fantasy, people will just wear their EVENT 201 masks and get in line
It’s pretty obvious the DOJ is not on OUR side. Epstein and pedophilia were open secrets in DC. DOJ was the chief sponsor of the coup attempt. Nobody there has been punished.
The DOJ (FBI) knelt before BLM.
DOJ has not made the slightest move against the leaders, organizers, communications, and financiers of antifa.
The DOJ has had and probably still has spies embedded in the White House against the president.
The DOJ’s main focus is desperately looking for white naationalist terrorists. That is why they showed up at NASCAR with two vanloads of agents to find out who might have fashioned a small noose as a pull cord on a garaage door.
The DOJ is not on America’s side. That’s just a sad but indisputable fact.
You’re familiar with my old stomping grounds in Allegany County. Pretty lively back in the day there, too. Plan A there will be to clear out the nests of of mush-minded hornets on the local college campuses (as though Frostbite State isn’t always a good keg party fight from setting the town on fire, anyway).
Rioters could reduce us to Venezeula in three days or less if the destruction is coordinated and targeted. Most in our society today only have a limited amount of food and supplies on hand. Maybe more TP now, since covid has taught us a lesson or two about being unprepared. But that’s about it. Normalcy bias is strong in the US.
I have a concern about mass ballot counting. If they are not counted by mid January, then there’s going to be a very serious problem.
The problem with our Two Party system, IMO, is that it pits one group against another. I’m with Washington in that I believe it’s bad for our form of government. The rich and powerful use division among people to remain in power and to become even richer.
One family who lived in my house [and 90 other villagers] didn’t make it to the fort during one of the Indian massacres.
That’s kind of a disturbing thing to think about.
We put in new fence posts years back and found burned cabin logs about 10 feet from the house.
Some kind of outbuilding they torched, I reckon.
Used to be a blacksmith’s shop on the old trail.
If I think about it too much, this place gives me the heebies.
:)
If it comes to all out fighting, it’s going to be neighbor against neighbor, and hood against hood. Kosovo on a massive scale.
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