America Faces One of Three Inevitable Paths: Unrest, Tyranny, or Divorce - Pick One

Townhall.com ^ | April 23, 2018 | Scott Morefield

[CodeToad]

That’s the most likely. Get rich and prepare to abandon ship.

[The Toll]

I don’t even care how it looks in the end. I just want to hurt them. Deeply.

[Windflier]

"...there are three possibilities for America’s future - unrest, tyranny, or divorce."

In all likelihood, America will suffer all of the above, in stages. In fact, I would posit that we're already well into the first phase, which is Tyranny.

Yes, President Trump is our 'great hope', to roll back and bring the burgeoning tyranny of the federal government to a halt, but let's face it, he's just one man, and may not succeed in righting our course during his eight years in office. If he (and we) cannot stop the juggernaut of tyranny, it will lead to Unrest.

I don't think any of us can predict with accuracy, what the Unrest will really look like, or what its full scope will be, but we all know that it's going to be messy and violent. The Tree of Liberty will surely be refreshed.

Only at the end of that violence, do I foresee a Divorce, when all will agree that it's a better solution than continuing the mayhem and destruction.

[papertyger]

Only at the end of that violence, do I foresee a Divorce, when all will agree that it's a better solution than continuing the mayhem and destruction.

I don't think the left has much stomach for ACTUAL "mayhem and destruction." They're perfectly willing to see it visited on their constituents and their opponents, so long as they can rest secure in their little enclaves.

[Jack Black]

To paraphrase the late, great Bill Buckley

What makes Bill Buckley great? I think "God and Man at Yale" was excellent, he wrote that at age 25. What did he do in the next 50 years that made him great?

There is a line of argument that he spent most of his capital repeatedly "purifying" Conservatism of influences he thought disruptive, and ultimately this harmed conservatism.

Initially he used his "purge power" to write the John Birch Society out of the Conservative movement. He did this because he disliked their claim that Eisenhower's administration was packed full of Communists. He felt it distracted from the war against Russian Communism.

Ok, fair enough, perhaps that was a reasonable judgement call, but 50 years on the infiltration of the executive branch my Leftists certainly seems like a central issue, one that we needed to win a while ago, but didn't.

Maybe the power intoxicated him, but the purge became his favorite response to criticism, especially from his right. He went on to purge those he considered "anti-semites", then "paleo-conservatives", then former comrades like Pat Buchanan, and even his long time friends, like his best man from his wedding, the writer Revilo Oliver.

The essence of the cuckservative insult, of recent vintage, is that the Buckley-era Conservative Movement , while supposedly fighting for the conservative cause, when push comes to shove - always folded.

The evidence supporting this is the steamroller of leftist causes is matched by the flattened conservative opposition on issue after issue. The civil rights act, forced integration, school busing, legal abortion, legalization of homosexuality, homosexuals in the military, homosexual adoption, homosexual marriage.

It's instructive to look at the institution Buckley founded, the National Review. It's not against his wishes that Rich Lowry is the editor, he appointed him.

Many of the writers they publish are associated with the Heritage Foundation or American Enterprise Institute.

So, we are left with Buckley's legacy as the institutionalization of Big Business Conservatism, or as critics sometimes call it "Conservatism, Inc.".

Buckley's formula allowed him to continue to be welcome in the salons of the Upper West Side, despite his conservative leanings, he was house-trained.

Where this all ended was with the entire institutional Conservative movement created and nurtured by Buckley agreeing with the importance of preventing Trump from winning the Presidency, despite his being arguably the most Conservative GOP candidate since Reagan.

I no longer view Buckley as great. He was good, and he was amusing, and he did fight some important battles, but in the end he cucked and failed.

We would have been much better off with someone more like Pat Buchanan leading the Conservative movement, than Buckley and his disciples.

I've left out some of the deeper questions about Buckley's personality that a close look at his life inevitably leads to, but to really make the call on whether he was "great" I think you'd need to look into them.

This image leads to a review of a book that presented this criticism in the most detail:

[bert]

Which is why conservatives never achieve a majority

[2ndDivisionVet]

Erring sisters, depart in peace.

[Windflier]

Q says we will be unified again.

Well then, I guess it's all settled. The Prophet Q has Spoken.

[central_va]

There has to a be a physical split so the two sides can occupy their own turf so to speak. You cannot vote with your feet now because the over arching Fedzilla now controls every aspect of life and states rights/power is a joke. This “divorce” is way overdue. Sorry but it has to happen.

[central_va]

I agree with you.

[central_va]

You divide the USA up so people cam emigrate to the area where the feel politically welcomed. There has to be a division. Get it? What’s so hard to understand?

[central_va]

Oh it’s totally simple. The legislature votes to secede and the governor signs it and boom your state is now a country!

[central_va]

There are a lot of conservatives in Northern New England along with Constitutional Carry in all three New England States.

So what? they can move can't they?

[CJ Wolf]

Given the state of blackmail in this country you first item on the list is your weakest point.

[Salvavida]

I don’t see how a piece of paper with three names on it could lead to blackmail.......and I’m somewhat of an expert in this field.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Demographics are now permanently against us and will continue to worsen.

 

An important point if not THE important point the essay above blew right by. That's the secret sauce the totalitarians are going to use to seize power and make it permanent. If we had a truly homogeneous citizenry I feel we could turn the tide - now even the ballot box is steadily being rendered useless. They need to import third world sheep to cancel out the vote of the opposition and ultimately actively participate in their subjugation.

 

 

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

“So what? they can move can’t they?”
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Why the hell should they? It’s their home. Many families have ties in these states going back two or three centuries.

This talk about breaking up the country and California seceding is just a bunch of inane bull$hit.

[snoringbear]

“But who is to say if the ratio would be less or more today?” Yeh, the scenarios that can be conjured are almost infinite. But, it appears to me that first of all there won’t be a civil war nor a revolution in the traditional sense, reasons being; most Americans have jobs, families, are vested in their communities, churches, etc. and, there are zero states what would in mass vote to leave the union. during the Civil War era, many men were farmers or frontiersmen. They could go volunteer for one side or the other while wife and young children took care of the farm. Also, today the U.S. military rank and file is conservative politically. So, the probability of U.S. troops firing on fellow Americans, bothers, sisters, sons, daughters, etc, is remote. Even an event such as the Branch Davidians or Ruby Ridge is unlikely. As you may recall, the Feds went to great lengths to avoid a shooting confrontation in Nevada at the Bundy Ranch not too long ago. Social media and the internet has changed the game considerably. Anyway, the opportunity to meet at the barricades is unlikely. That’s how I see it anyway. Just my two bits 🙄...

[steve86]

I hate seeing that map. It portrays the Pacific states as all blue when it is, in fact, only the extreme coastal areas that are blue. There are north-south mountain ranges, and bexyond that, red as far as the eye can see. Farming, rural.

[steve86]

“You divide the USA up so people cam emigrate to the area where the feel politically welcomed”

Yeah, sure. So when those of us conservatives in eastern WA/OR migrate east, who is going to grow and harvest potatoes, apples, wheat, and cherries, run Grand Coulee dam and ten other power-producing dams, a nuclear plant, secure DOE and DOD facilities, and the rest? Lefties from Seattle? Right.