The Left’s Sirens Are Already Hinting Our Culture Wars Will End In Another Civil War

The Federalist ^ | 10/10/2017 | John Daniel Davidson

[ForYourChildren]

The radicalization of the Democratic Party is transforming everything that happens in America into another battle in our unending culture war.

Is there anything left in American public life that isn’t an occasion for political rancor and division? NFL games are now nothing more than crude pieces of political theater. On Sunday even Vice President Mike Pence got in on the act, showing up to a Colts-49ers game then leaving after a few players knelt during the national anthem. Next day was Columbus Day, which the cities of Los Angeles and Austin decided this year to replace with “Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” because Christopher Columbus is apparently the new Robert E. Lee. And it’s only Tuesday.

It should be obvious by now that our culture wars will henceforth be constant and unending; the next battle could be triggered by almost anything. Whether it’s the reactions (or non-reactions) of Hollywood celebrities to the unsurprising news of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misdeeds or the outraged calls for the repeal of the Second Amendment the instant news broke of the Las Vegas massacre, very little can happen in America now without it being an occasion for an appeal to one’s own political tribe. No matter how tawdry or horrifying the news, there is vanishingly little room for solidarity because there is no appetite for it. Not even late-night comedy shows with their shrinking audiences can resist the urge to devolve into partisan political rants.

For all his eagerness to wage the culture wars in his improvised, bombastic style, this didn’t begin with Donald Trump. It didn’t begin with Barack Obama, either, but a recent study by Pew Research Center found that divisions between Republicans and Democrats on fundamental political values reached record levels during the Obama administration. .. {..snip..}

[TexasGunLover]

Bring it on, B#t#hes!!

I wonder if you'll say that when you're burying your dead 5 year old child were they to be killed in all out armed conflict.

[5th MEB]

They would, from a lot of enemies outside the US.
But I think we will still whip them, we know the ground a lot better than they do.

[5th MEB]

The object of the game is NOT TO DIE ON YOUR HILL, but to MAKE YOUR ENEMIES DIE ON YOUR HILL.

[Sergio]

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams

I believe it was the Democrat Party that during their convention, booed when it was brought to voice vote that "God" be added to the party platform.

Libs are not a moral people, our form of government is not suitable for them. Libs don't hate us because we are conservative, they hate us because we are not liberal.

Here is the URL for some thoughts from our Founding Father about the importance, relevance, and necessity of Christianity in our system of governance.

http://www.free2pray.info/5founderquotes.html

[Harpotoo]

My Tribe is a Yuge Army of AmeriCANS!

[TexasGunLover]

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams

So true, beautiful quote, and a strong warning to our current state.

[Harpotoo]

I wish President Trump would reinstate Food Stamps (EBT cards look just like our CCs) so we’d know who we were talking to at the check out counter:-)

[polymuser]

This is what proggies want - an eruption of civil war, then martial law, gun confiscation, elitist rule, and a harsh leveling down of white men.

It’s being floated that Las Vegas may have been a planned trigger event, that didn’t work, and some are wondering who may have been in that hotel with front row seats.

I cannot put this past the Soros minions.

[PreciousLiberty]

“they willingly abase themselves by publicly accepting that a kerosene fire (1500°F) can melt steel (3000°F). The fact that 1500 is less than 3000 is called a “conspiracy theory.”

So you’ve never seen the demonstrations of heated steel becoming more plastic (deformable)? It doesn’t have to melt to fail structurally.

You might also want to review this incident from 2007 - where a gas tanker fire caused a freeway overpass to collapse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/us/30collapse.html

The US government had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.

[A strike]

I agree with you 100% if it’s a fair fight.
But, if the Leftists regain control the levers of power, i.e. the use of force by government in favor of the radical antiAmericans as would be the case of Hillary, Lynch, Holder, ... et.al., it would be a very bloody thing with the outcome not guaranteed to the patriots.

[toast]

You’re scaring me. I have one of those on the back of my neck.

[LonePalm]

I have an extra Mil-spec butter knife if you need it.

"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[newfreep]

In 2012, the DNC convention did indeed boo God - 3 times.

All they needed was 30 pieces of silver...and cock crowing 3 times.

[Texan5]

Good-a safe place to be-over the last 10 years, this rural area has become even more of a place where off-grid types, old hippies, preppers and hermits live-the contractor I work for and I are looking to buy a place to co-op with more acreage, even further from any main road than we are now-co-op is popular with those of us going galt out here, complete with a thriving barter system. The idea is to be able to go totally off-grid and self-sufficient if the SHTF, in our cabins with our garden and livestock, doing the same work we do now.

My guy lives and works in a burb outside the city 45 miles away-and although not totally committed to the idea of maybe having to grab pets guns and other necessities and go galt here-he was a ranch kid too so I’m pretty sure he’ll remember how it is all done...

[.44 Special]

I’m so sick of them and their antics that I wish the civil war would start so we could finish it once and for all.

[proud American in Canada]

There is one side that is ready for war. The side that Japan was afraid to take on in WWII.

The other side can sit back and enjoy their expensive Starbucks mocha lattes until it is too late.

(Not condoning violence; just pointing out a very real difference in this cultural divide).

[Doche2X2]

If the Progressives had any understanding of history, which they do not have, they would know that what they want to do has already been tried-in the French Revolution, and that did not work out well for anyone.

[Doche2X2]

If the Progressives had any understanding of history, which they do not have, they would know that what they want to do has already been tried-in the French Revolution, and that did not work out well for anyone.

[central_va]

The numbers are not there. The police and the military are tiny compared with the US population.

[dontreadthis]

it’s not a zit