We'll need something like this X 10,000. The Spanish Civil War began when a legitimately elected government went so far to the Left that they began attacking the Church, encouraging government-armed mobs to seize Church property and then private property, executing priests,nuns, and landowners, allowing Communists to run labor unions and the courts, forging alliances with the Soviet Union, shooting opposition politicians from the village level up etc. (All ignored by the American MSM even then, right along with ignoring Stalin's massacres in Russia.)
And of course, our own Civil War began as a Constitutional dispute over the Right of Secession, rumblings of which are again heard today, as Federalism has abrogated the Constitutional Rights of the Sovereign States.
Perhaps it's hard to see and understand amidst the incessant social noise of our era, but I believe we are living in times of no less historical importance to the survival of the Republic.
To me this feels like being in an old Chinese movie, were the overbearing Manchu lords are oppressing the Ming peasants, who bow and scrape, going about their daily duties, while secretly training in their backyards for the day they kick their Manchurian butts.
I think we’re getting close to the part in the movie where everybody goes insane and cuts off their pigtails...
What I Saw At The Coup - Matt Bracken