Posted on 08/19/2018 6:23:51 AM PDT by econjack
A few days ago, Jack Minzey, sent what was to be the final chapter in the long line of books and treatises which he had written.
Jack went to be with the Lord, on Sunday, 8 April 2018.
Professionally, Jack was head of the Department of Education at Eastern Michigan University as well as a prolific author of numerous books, most of which were on the topic of Education and the Government role therein. His interest in Conservative Politics was exceeded only by his intellectual ability. This is the last of his works:
Civil War How do civil wars happen?
Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can't settle the question through elections because they don't even agree that elections are how you decide who's in charge. That's the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.
The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it's not the first time they've done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn't really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There's a pattern here.
What do sure odds of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don't accept the results of any election that they don't win. It means they don't believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections.
That's a civil war.
There's no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the Democrats have rejected our system of government.
This isn't dissent. It's not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they're the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election. When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don't win, what you want is a dictatorship.
Your very own dictatorship.
The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to Democrats, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it's inherently illegitimate. The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can't scratch his own back without his say so, that's the civil war.
Our system of government is based on the constitution, but that's not the system that runs this country. The Democrat's system is that any part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the country.
If the Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do anything. And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. His power is unlimited. He's a dictator.
But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the President can't do anything. He isn't even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented. A Democrat in the White House has 'discretion' to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn't even have the 'discretion' to reverse him. That's how the game is played. That's how our country is run. Sad but true, although the left hasn't yet won that particular fight.
When a Democrat is in the White House, states aren't even allowed to enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission. But under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries.
The Constitution has something to say about that.
Whether it's Federal or State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left moves power around to run the country. If it controls an institution, then that institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land. This is what I call a moving dictatorship.
Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding: Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds. You can't serve in it if you're not a member. If you haven't been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals. If you aren't in the club. And Trump isn't in the club. He brought in a bunch of people who aren't in the club with him.
Now we're seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down.
That's not a free country.
It's not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an 'insurance policy' against Trump winning the election. It's not a free country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the opposition. It's not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media. It's not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn't supposed to win did.
Have no doubt, we're in a civil war between a conservative volunteer government and a leftist Democrat professional government.
It’s amazing after just 8 years a corrupt outgoing President and losing candidate from the same party using the corrupt Government he created to destroy the elected President of another party
Here is another great article!
Another good explanation.
I’m not as eloquently spoken as some. I tend to wield a Warhammer when I’m talking heh.
I’ve always stated that war was about consolidating power in DC. Then the usual suspects come out yelling about slavery.
Lee’sGhost wrote:
“Again, youve got to have the first civil war before you can have the second one. Technically a civil war involves an attempt to take over the government. The South never attempted that. It attempted to act on the belief that their states were sovereign and had every right to form their own union or confederacy. At no time did they attempt to take over the existing government.
Words are supposed to have meaning. The historians from the side that won the War Between the States termed Civil War because they dont want people to remember or to know the truth. That it wasnt a civil war.”
Very very important post! Many thanks!
How many of them are there? How many of them will be willing to fight, or simply throw monkey wrenches in the works when we win?
We are close to winning. Another Supreme Court justice and maintaining majorities in the House and Senate in the mid-terms, and we will have effectively won, at least for several years, just as the left came very, very close to a decisive win with a Hillary election.
There was opposition to FDR, but it never amounted to much. He effectively won the FDR revolution when he got re-elected in 1936.
If we break the back of the media cartel, as seems to have happened/is ongoing, how many effective leftists will there be? How will they fight? Their major power for the last 50 years has been their control of the media. They do not control the military or most of the police.
We can still lose. I think the odds favor us. If the Left is able to silence us on the Internet and social media, it becomes much harder to predict.
It depends on your perspective. The north most certainly looked at it as a civil war. Lincoln repeatedly used the phrase civil war. He used it in the Gettysburg Address. It was common phraseology for the war in the north and they won. The victors write the history books. Its real easy to re-write history 150 years later and say well, technically that wasnt a civil war. Bottom line is this-they thought it was at the time. Those people LIVING THROUGH IT said it was. So, you and I can rewrite history if we want, but it doesnt change what they said it was. They said it was a civil war...which is why we call it the Civil War.
“we will have effectively won”
To what end? The GOP has proven to be the eGOP, and Trump is allowing the democrats (Sessions, Mueller, et al.) to run roughshod all over the people, the constitution, the courts, the law, and himself. The criminals are getting away as he play Kabuki Theater and runs out the clock.
True, but the chip is still a chip (ir)regardless of the wind. ;-)
“Hopefully” is another such example.
Mark for later reading
“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...”
The “Civil War” was actually a war for independence just like the Revolutionary War. Lincoln became the new King George.
“No accountability no law!!!”
Jeff Sessions fail.
You’re absolutely right. We are currently in Civil War 1 where their side is shooting and we are hiding behind Pres. Trump to take care of this all on his own. Wake up people. Put on your Red Arm Bands and Lock N Load. When, not if, we start shooting there are bulls eyes on so many judges, reporters, commentators, Senators & Congressmen, and in general all politicians all the way down the ladder who wants to annihilate our Constitution. BTW the red tennis wrist bans work pretty good. I even carry a blue one in case I’m in trouble.
Right. And the term “CIVIL war” is a misnomer. It may have been a civic (internal) war but it certainly was not civil.
Technically, the Mueller Inquisition is a soft coup or conspiracy (similar in history to some of the ancient Roman conspiracies (Cataline Conspiracy, etc.). It is also a false conspiracy because the FBI’s goal is to not only protect Hillary, for whom they did their plotting, but to protect themselves from accountability for doing the political bidding of Democrats. Like all cops, they will close ranks and defend themselves against politicians who threaten their careers and perks. The way FBI elites view the issue is that they should not suffer firings for doing the dirty work of politicians.
The ongoing conflict over Trump’s election is a conflict between the two middle classes: the Knowledge Class, dependent on government outlays and regulation for its existence, and the Business Class, dependent on Capitalism. This conflict is an insurrection or mutiny that can lead to revolution if not put down.
You mentioned Lincoln, but Jefferson Davis didn’t call it a Civil War.
“So, yeah, the Civil War has, in effect, started”
All the necessary prerequisites have been laid down. The white hot hatred is there. Extermination camps would not cause an iota of guilty conscience. All the fault of democrat provocateurs.
>>Put on your Red Arm Bands and Lock N Load.
Yep. It’s time to become they threat they say we are when they are trying to silence us, disarm us, and kick us out of society.
Not a big fan of arm bands though. MAGA hats seem to fire them up. We need to show them a MAGA hat flood.
It was a civil war that was not civil. It may have been a civic war but not a civil war.
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