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It's not a coup. It's a civil war.
American Thinker.com ^ | December 13, 2019 | Phil D'Agostino

Posted on 12/13/2019 6:33:06 AM PST by Kaslin

Lately, it's been convenient — and self-serving to some — to call what is going on with the Trump administration a coup. It's a "soft coup" or a "silent coup" or a wish-it-were-a-coup.

Let's take a look at what that means. According to all definitions I can find, a coup is a sudden, often violent overthrow of a government. Every time I look up the definition of a coup, I get something like this from Merriam-Webster: "a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics." But there is nothing sudden about this.

Have you ever thought, "What would a modern civil war look like?" Tanks rolling down the streets of Washington, D.C.? Missiles targeting the Congress? Armed forces storming the White House or Capitol Building? None of these would accomplish anything. So what would a modern-day civil war look like?

At least since the 1960s, a faction of people have been looking for a chance to make our government conform to what they think it should be. This faction has identified itself in many ways, and its members always embrace Marxist ideals with a top-down government run by a few. A "law-based" government, on the other hand, would have a constitution to protect the rights of the minority from the "tyranny" of the majority. That is what the United States of America is: a law-based government founded on the belief that those working in government are employees of the people, and not that the people are subservient to them. And all decisions are to be based on our agreement to form such a government — that is, as spelled out in our Constitution.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 116th; coup; coupplotters; cw2; deepstate; dncstrategy; readythememes; trumpukraine
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To: aimhigh

Grahamnesty has his own Ukraine secrets he wants to keep hidden.


41 posted on 12/13/2019 9:37:43 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: be-baw

What, those democrats who give Pelosi the right to be Speaker?

So she can appoint Schitt and Nadler to convene impeachment inquiries? So those democrats can vote against it as a small minority of the party all in on impeachment?

It is a vicious circle of kabuki theater.


42 posted on 12/13/2019 9:55:04 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: NTHockey
It is up to ALL of us to stop the coup,

What do you suggest?

43 posted on 12/13/2019 9:59:20 AM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
“The MSM” is more accurately described as “the wire services and their members/clients” - or, for short, “the journalism cartel.”

The wire services are continuous virtual meetings of all major US journalism. They began before the civil war, and by now Adam Smith’s dictum that " People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices” must imply that it is utterly naive to assume that journalism is not functionally a cartel.

So much so, that their "conspiracy against the public” is so ingrained in their behavior that everyone (almost) takes that conspiratorial behavior for granted as normal. The cartel - all its members - claim that journalism is objective, and take for granted that “so-and-so is not objective, not a journalist” is a disqualification for anyone claiming to be a journalist. But objectivity is actually really hard, and going along and getting along with the cartel politically is duck-soup easy. So journalism’s “objectivity” defaults to herd mentality.

Journalism is about bad news primarily, and therefore journalism is negative. Claiming negativity to be objectivity is cynicism. Journalism is cynical about society, and (concomitantly) naive about government. The cartel demands that journalists be called “objective” - and that people who equally go along with the cartel politically be called “liberal” or “moderate” or “progressive.” Or some other political virtue. Likewise people who decline to go along politically are smeared - make no mistake, it is intended as a smear - “conservative.”

The journalism cartel and the Democrat Party are joined at the political hip.

44 posted on 12/13/2019 10:08:22 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: Ransomed
I wonder what folks who have actually been through civil wars think of all this civil war talk applied to the current state of US politics and culture.

I've been thinking that a better analogy is to the French revolution with Robespierre and the reign of terror.

45 posted on 12/13/2019 11:00:20 AM PST by TexasKamaAina
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To: TexasKamaAina

The Democrats occupy the position of the French Nobility.

Throw them in jail. make them post bail of $10 million. Give them a trial with three judges as a tribunal.

Then, in public, for all to see...... off with their heads.

They are all guilty of seditious conspiracy and a host of other crimes involved. They have attempted to overthrow the elected government of the Republic.

Off with their heads (it’s painless and humane and not cruel nor unusual)


46 posted on 12/13/2019 11:05:42 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: devane617

They do care. They care that it dare get in the way of their plans. So it has got to be run rough shod over.


47 posted on 12/13/2019 11:14:54 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: workerbee

“What do you suggest?”

Run for county sheriff.

Volunteer as a member for the county’s natural resources board.

Attend a schoolboard meeting and demand that all administrators be fired.

Run for schoolboard.

Investigate the county board land planner. (The a-hole is taking bribes. I guarantee it.)


48 posted on 12/13/2019 11:21:18 AM PST by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: workerbee

>What do you suggest?<

Don’t you still have four boxes? Use them.


49 posted on 12/13/2019 12:01:34 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: be-baw

Where?


50 posted on 12/13/2019 12:07:50 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t find the ‘Rats to be very civil.

They are fascists.


51 posted on 12/13/2019 6:20:00 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Mitt’s mittens were/are in there too.


52 posted on 12/13/2019 6:22:35 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Kaslin

Bump


53 posted on 12/13/2019 8:02:03 PM PST by foreverfree
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To: TexasKamaAina

“I’ve been thinking that a better analogy is to the French revolution with Robespierre and the reign of terror.”

I think a big difference would be that poor people during the French revolution were the most likely to be hungry, not the most likely to be obese like they are here and now. I think that particular dynamic probably makes inaccurate every historical parallel to our current era. It’s never happened before, so who knows. It’s hard for me to imagine anything sustained going on while these conditions persist.

Freegards


54 posted on 12/13/2019 8:43:31 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: Kaslin

It’s the government refusing to abide by the constitution. It is the government in rebellion against the people.

I don’t know if there is a word to define this. Another way to view it is the government fighting with itself, or fighting to preserve the administrative/”lawful” state created by Congress and the Courts over the past 100 years.

Failed institutions, failing in the open. All the while claiming to be healthy and to be supporting the constitution.


55 posted on 12/13/2019 8:49:22 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: allendale
What decent minded conservative can break bread with a wild eyed, pro abortion, hedonistic, decadent socialist? Would you want such a person to enter your home? About 35-40% of the population has values, beliefs and opinions that are an anathema to decent people.

Fortunately most of these marxist freaks live in cities, you can see it on the county by county election map. Granny Clampet was right.

Violence will occur when frustration boils over and decent folk are injured by the decadents.

Well, there are those unfortunate conservatives who live in the filthy cities, and commie nutjobs who live out in the sticks.

The conservatives need to get the Hell out of Dodge, and let the cities burn. Out in the willy-wags....it'll be a short war.

56 posted on 12/13/2019 9:07:52 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (We need to reach across the aisle, extend a hand...And slap the crap out of them)
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To: Kaslin

Brilliant. And dead-on accurate.


57 posted on 12/16/2019 10:11:57 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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