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Winning the Cold Civil War
Tom Klingenstein ^ | 09/07/21 | Tom Klingenstein

Posted on 09/07/2021 9:00:04 AM PDT by PoliticallyShort

We find ourselves in a Cold Civil War. But we have no real generals. A war without generals is no war at all. There is no liberty or death, only death, the death of our once cherished republic. Leading Republicans who should be our generals fight battles, sometimes with spirit, but they don't seem to see the war in its entirety, particularly its cultural aspects. This is a war not over the size of government or taxes, but over the American way of life. The war is between those who salute the flag, and those who take a knee. Those who believe that America is built on freedom, and those who believe America is built on racism. Those who are convinced that America is good, and those who are convinced America is bad. These differences are too large to bridge. This is what makes it a war. In this case, a Cold Civil War.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: coldcivilwar; klingenstein
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1 posted on 09/07/2021 9:00:04 AM PDT by PoliticallyShort
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To: PoliticallyShort

I like the description “Cold Civil War”.


2 posted on 09/07/2021 9:03:31 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: frogjerk

Because the main weapon is the Common Cold?


3 posted on 09/07/2021 9:03:52 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: PoliticallyShort

“Leading Republicans who should be our generals“

McCarthy? McConnell? The other republicans? They are all grifters to communist China. Sure, they may get their cash laundered by the Chamber of Commerce or Google or Apple or Black Rock. But that is all for the benefit of China.

The Chamber of Commerce is a Chinese cash laundry.


4 posted on 09/07/2021 9:07:41 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: PoliticallyShort

One solution is to import elon musk’s education system into the US for primary and secondary education.


5 posted on 09/07/2021 9:09:06 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: frogjerk

RE: Cold Civil War....

But it means one side has the arrogant stance of total power.

The other cowers in the shadows afraid of being fired, canceled, humiliated in a college class, failed by the college professor, banned on all important social media while others promote their lives and careers on it and afraid to walk outside in case teens or thugs pounce on them.

Elections stolen outright and people who ask any question about them are crushed and shunned as supporting “unproven” and “conspiracy theory” nonsense.

Soon the SCOTUS packed with leftists by the no-filibuster all Dem House and Senate as Congress rapidly pushes through reparations, gun confiscation enforcement laws and discrimination against whites in employment.

Plus new housing laws disallowing private one family homes, restrictions on use of air conditioning and heat, defunding of local police and replacement by national police force and friendship with the Chinese Communists.

And the powerful side knows they will always win because they have nothing to fear from the nonviolent weak ones.

They would rather fight and crush Tibetans than battle the WWII Russian style scorched earth fighters.


6 posted on 09/07/2021 9:21:27 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: PoliticallyShort

Conservatives will not win the cold civil war, nor do they have the balls to fight a hot one.


7 posted on 09/07/2021 9:24:14 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: frogjerk

In my opinion it is already hot it is just that one side refuses to effectively fight it. Guerilla tactics and epic asymmetrics seems to be the MO.


8 posted on 09/07/2021 9:27:23 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: dware

True


9 posted on 09/07/2021 9:27:48 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: MachIV

Don’t poke this bear.


11 posted on 09/07/2021 9:40:04 AM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (This is the sort of stuff up with which I shall not put!)
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To: KierkegaardMAN
Don’t poke this bear.

Ha! Gotta be the funniest thing I've read all day.

12 posted on 09/07/2021 9:43:01 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: PoliticallyShort

There are:

1. People who work.
2. The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.


13 posted on 09/07/2021 9:45:55 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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There are:

1. People who work prefer material wealth over the animated contest for freedom.
2. The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.

Fixed it!

14 posted on 09/07/2021 10:00:13 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: dware

It is the height of arrogance to change what someone else has written.


15 posted on 09/07/2021 10:03:32 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: PoliticallyShort

Stitskrieg.

War has started; but both sides are waiting for the other to make a decisive move. Similar to WWII between September 1939 and the battle of Brittan.


16 posted on 09/07/2021 10:07:34 AM PDT by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: blueunicorn6
It is the height of arrogance to change what someone else has written.

I'm not wrong, though.

17 posted on 09/07/2021 10:14:50 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: PoliticallyShort
It was "cold civil war" back when Obama was president.

Now it's something else.

18 posted on 09/07/2021 10:17:55 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: dware

Proving my point.


19 posted on 09/07/2021 10:23:17 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: PoliticallyShort
"This is a war not over the size of government or taxes, but over the American way of life."


20 posted on 09/07/2021 10:38:18 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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