Yes. Next question, please.
Whose side has the guns?
Absolutely.
Jumps to Thucydides in the third sentence. Standard VDH fair, seeing echoes of classical Greece in our modern travails. So refreshing after watching Dems whose historical perspective begins either when they were born or when they were elected.
Ping
I was telling students 10 YEARS AGO that if some folks didn’t back off, we were going to have a civil war. Literally, 10 YEARS AGO. Administrators got upset with me. If it happens, some folks are going to regret having told me off.
Yes and not soon enough. The garden that we call America needs weeding.
The war has already begun (probably started when Obama was first elected). The Radical Left/Marxists/Post-Modernists have come into the open. We can see who they are and they tell us what they want, which is a completely new constitution and country which reflects THEIR principles.
As Clausewitz said (I paraphrase), "war is politics by other means." If you listen to the exhortations of Maxine Waters, you can hear the "other means" being planned by the Left. We have already seen the "other means" in the actions of Antifa.
That is just the beginning of the violent phase...but it is also a point of no return.
I think I can answer this question quite simply. Although, NonValueAdded sums it up as succinctly as anyone.
Scenario:
Conservatives live in their neighborhood. They live their lives. Don’t infringe on other people, their neighbors, everyone gets along or at the very least, is courteous to one another. They go to work. Pay their bills. The need for massive police forces are not there, low crime, people obey the law and don’t cause problems. You don’t bother me, I won’t bother you. Doesn’t mean that everyone on the block loves each other, holds hand and sings KumBaYa, but everyone knows their left and right limits. And they all live in and can maintain a civil prosperous society.
Liberals/Progressives/Socialists/Communists live in their neighborhood. They infringe on other peoples lives. Want to take from others because they’re too lazy to get it themselves. Think everything is owed to them. Someone else should pay. Life is unfair. Someone should take care of me. And if you don’t think what I think, you’re racist, misogynist, phobic in every way, shape and form. They foment chaos and violence at every turn, because they cannot win w/ their ideas.
Libertarians think everyone should be able to do what they want, when they want, as long as it doesn’t infringe on another. Which is perfectly fine, with me. But what happens when it does infringe on another. Who solves the problem? Do they duel at high noon? Do they call the police and go through the courts? Something libertarians don’t think is needed.
Eventually, the Liberals, et al, look at the other side and see that everything really is, a nice house, picket fence, nice car, nice lawn, everyone getting along, no issues, and they cannot stand it. They cannot stand that those that aren’t like them, can just live their lives in peace. They demand that they get the same results, even though they don’t want the same results. That is, unless they are the celebrities, hipsters, academics and wealthy liberals that live in the most exclusive parts of our cities and states.
Civil War 2 is already happening. It began the day after Trump was elected.
No.
Because the people that keep bragging about having all the guns, are waiting for someone else to be the guy that shoots. When that guy actually fires that gun, instead of bragging about how much ammo he has, gets arrested and put in prison, then they will magically disappear.
People here are no more inclined to sacrifice their nice life for a shooting war, than anyone else. Civil war is just big talk. You cant even get people here to actively protest RINO senators.
“Every day we will either treat each other as fellow Americans, with far more uniting than dividing us, or we will continue on the present path that eventually ends in something like a hate-filled Iraq, Rwanda or the Balkans.”
The globalists are seeking the latter option. Then they intend to move in and pick up the pieces.
Hanson is just reciting the obvious. Joe McCarthy bought the country a few good years, but the vermin are back, more radical and in our face than ever. Worse, their determination to win this time has physical force and resistance written all over it. For us, it comes down to liberty or death, so there you have it in a nutshell.
Basically Constitutionalists vs. non-Constitutuonalists....
It’s been going on for a while. The Left has actually backed off a little since Trump took office. BLM has been MIA. That won’t last forever.
Liberals are like Steelers fans: they think the world began in 1974.
Ask these morons to tell us about any country or culture that wasn't/isn't flawed. What race/ethnicity has done nothing sinful/aggressive/destructive?
The reality is that it is resentments, hatreds, jealousies, and self-promotion that motivates those holier than thou anti-US pukes who are pulling the nation apart. Further, it is our ill-intentioned media who are pouring gasoline on the fire.