Winning the Civil War of Two Americas

Frontpagemag ^ | April 4, 2017 | Daniel Greenfield

[Mr. Mojo]

America vs. Anti-America

When John Edwards touted the “Two Americas” during his presidential campaigns before his political career ended in disgrace, it was still a metaphor. It stopped being a metaphor at the end of last year.

If you doubt that, you can watch Tom Perez, the head of the Democratic National Committee, yelling that President Trump didn’t win the election. There is a huge difference between opposing the winner of an election and denying that he won it. It’s the difference between opposition and rebellion.

Democrats have not recognized a single Republican presidential victory this century. There is no real reason to think that they will recognize a third one. We can safely assume that the third or fourth Republican to win the White House, no matter who he is, will face the same treatment.

A two-party system can’t function if one party denies the legitimacy of elections won by the other side.

In the Edwards era, the Democrats denied that President Bush had won the election, but they still remained part of the government. That’s no longer the case. Their political mantra is resistance. Their position is that Trump and Republicans are inherently illegitimate and must not be allowed to govern. Instead the government must be defied, opposed, subverted and brought down by any means.

The Democrats have become an unelected shadow anti-government that is seeking to bring down an elected government. That is what I described in an earlier article as a civil war.

The crisis has its roots in Two Americas.

The Democrats artificially created another America. They built it in the elitist urban and suburban enclaves of the left. They drew it with urban welfare ghettoes and with mass immigration. But despite the vast financial, political and cultural power invested in this “New America” it did not represent the majority of the country. And democratic elections dealt repeated setbacks to this Anti-America.

Political maps show these alien concentrations of blue amid a vast national sea of red. Democrats have lost much of the country. They have been wiped out at the state level. They retain power only because they have illegally concentrated them in undemocratic political, financial and cultural centers.

Democrats responded to the latest string of defeats by denying the legitimacy of the election and calling for the elimination of the Electoral College. The original Americans hadn’t died out on schedule so it was time to further dilute their electoral influence in favor of the left’s cultural and financial centers of power all the while protecting the mass immigration program that was meant to replace them.

The Two Americas are now in a state of war.

Anti-America lost an election, denied the outcome and is running a separatist shadow government of sanctuary cities and activist judges. The various attacks on the Trump administration and Congress are expressions of “patriotism”, not to America, but to the alternate Anti-America that they are truly loyal to.

This is not just a power struggle. It’s a clash between two Americas. And only one America can survive.

The left had meant for their Anti-America to replace America. If America is to survive, Anti-America must be destroyed. Unlike America, Anti-America is an artificial entity. Its vulnerabilities are easy to spot by the policy priorities of the left. Anti-America lives by mass migration and campus brainwashing. It requires a huge infrastructure of government employees maintained by taxes and regulations. Its segregated cities depend on a complex hierarchy of political identities that provide access to everything from subsidized housing to jobs based on intersectional caste membership.

Republicans stand against everything that keeps Anti-America alive. So a conflict was always inevitable. Anti-America is far more vulnerable than America. And that’s the good news.

America can win.

Anti-America is based on concentrations of power. Decentralization is its nemesis. Anti-America needs to constantly control people because it is a totalitarian system. Totalitarian systems need a lot more infrastructure and are far more vulnerable. That is why they are so intolerant of individual freedom.

Drain the swamp and you eliminate its breeding grounds. And that of the lobbyists, consultants and reporters who swarm around it like flies.

What the left does best is organize. But organizations are complex systems. And the more complex a system is, the more vulnerable it is. Fighting the left for control of the systems they created and inhabit like hives is a losing proposition. The last few months were a thorough demonstration of that. You don’t fight an ant colony by going inside it. You attack it from the outside by burying it in the dirt.

The left governs by taking a public interest agenda and building an infrastructure of unions, consultants and industries around it. That’s what it did with essentials like education and medicine. Eliminate the organization and you cut expenses, improve services and wipe out the left. That’s why the left panics so badly over education reform and socialized medicine. Those are the sources of much of its money and power.

Cut immigration and the demographic replacement that the left has bet its entire “right side of history” on gets choked off. That’s why the left is more worked up over plans to cut migration than anything else. It doesn’t actually care about Syria or El Salvador. It just knows that Anti-America depends on importing large numbers of people with high birth rates who have no allegiance to this country. Portland won’t do it. Pakistan might.

Leftist beliefs defy common sense. It takes a whole lot of indoctrination to make anyone believe them. End the centralization of education, roll back the endless expansion of higher education and take a hard look at the corporate culture monopolies of the entertainment industry and the Berlin Wall will fall again. Without a fresh supply of zombies, the left goes back to being a marginal movement.

And the left knows it.

The Two Americas have come to a dangerous crossroads. The policy agenda of the Democrats would destroy America. That of the Republicans would destroy Anti-America.

American culture, economics and religion can’t survive the rule of Anti-America. That is what we saw in the Obama years. But Anti-America would do even worse if Republicans got serious about a reform agenda. That’s one reason why Democrats are beginning to engage in a political secession.

Immigration enforcement, school choice and big government cuts frighten them worse than anything.

The left reshaped the culture until an ideological conflict became a culture war. The Two Americas have less in common than the North and the South did. The divisions accelerated sharply throughout the last century. In this century, the division is becoming an irresolvable political conflict. A civil war.

The Democrats are abandoning the pretense of acting as an opposition party within a unified country. If Republicans wish to preserve America, they must be prepared to use government power to destroy the infrastructure of Anti-America. A conflict is underway that will determine whether America survives.

There are Two Americas. In the end there can only be one.

[kearnyirish2]

When the primarily urban rejects of Spanish society elected a leftist government in 1936 and set about “fundamentally transforming” Spain (burning churches, seizing land), the army and police, supported by much of the rural population, rose up and fought a three year war to restore order. In the end, the leftists were too incompetent to really organize much; their screeds against authority left them with a rabble that refused to take orders or see anything beyond their own selfish interests, and starvation set in. Like all communist utopias, nobody wanted to do the actual work involved with raising crops and such...

[Bryanw92]

>>there can only be one.

I’ve seen Highlander. I know what needs to be done.

[PIF]

“You don’t fight an ant colony by going inside it. You attack it from the outside by burying it in the dirt.”

FWIW: burying an ant colony is pointless, they will just dig to the surface and use the free dirt to expand their colony. You fight an ant colony by poisoning the queen(s) ... some ant colonies, like the Allegheny Mound Ant, have hundreds of queens in each mound ...

[BroJoeK]

kearnyirish2: "When the primarily urban rejects of Spanish society elected a leftist government in 1936 and set about “fundamentally transforming” Spain (burning churches, seizing land), the army and police, supported by much of the rural population, rose up and fought a three year war to restore order.
In the end, the leftists were too incompetent..."

Thank you sir!
You have bolstered my unreferenced claims with historical example.
As a boy & young man in my visits to Spain, it was under the dictator Franco, a country relatively poor but beautiful and peaceful.

Sadly, your analogy is not a happy one, since the victory in Spain of national socialist dictatorship over international socialist tyranny is not in any way the choice American conservatives wish.
In the USA the word "conservative" means our Constitution and the Bible, not necessarily in that order.
So we would not willingly chose one form of dictatorship to defend us from another form of tyranny.

That makes us "weak" politically, but perhaps not as weak as some, even on Free Republic, imagine.

[marktwain]

Greenfield has nailed it again.

What he does not mention is that the “Progressives” have gone so far over the top with the Obama administration that they have alienated much of their constituency, leaving only the base. The base is not that large, probably no more than 20 percent of the country, likely less.

As they become more and more unhinged, that base shrinks down to the True Believers. True Believers are probably less than 10% of the country.

10% of committed people can do a lot, but the have to contend with probably 30% of equally committed opposition.

Human nature and reality are working against them.

[gr8eman]

Petrol bombs are most effective...so I hear!

[NTHockey]

>>The Democrats have become an unelected shadow anti-government that is seeking to bring down an elected government. That is what I described in an earlier article as a civil war.<<

No sir, it is sedition to advocate the violent overthrow of the government. If this continues unabated, this shadow anti-government will result in no government. Warlords, anyone?

[GOPJ]

A two-party system can’t function if one party denies elections won by the other side.

Great post - thanks.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

"You fight an ant colony by poisoning the queen(s) "

And there you have it in a nutshell exactly! The worker ants just blindly follow like zombies. They will believe anything the "queens" tell them and do what ever they are told. In the ant colony if the queen is proven to be too sick or weak, the colony will turn against her, and if the queen dies (or is removed from the hive) the colony will not survive.

Go after the "queens" and neutralize them! The question is, do we actually have the guts to do that because it seems that even Trump is reluctant to prosecute the leftist leaders for their obvious criminal behavior. For far too long now the elite crowd has been immune and protected. We can only hope and pray that he is just biding his time and waiting for the right time to spring the trap, and hope that the right time comes sooner rather than too late.

[wita]

You nailed it Guv. Excellent companion to the article itself.

...and the obvious answer to your question, of course not, none at all, and very short selective memories as well.

[griswold3]

Wonderfully stated.
When Gorsuch is on the Supreme Court, they are declaring that none of his decisions will be legitimate because Trump is not legitimate.
There are so many ways the enemy within operates.
This will not end well.

[Albion Wilde]

This essay clearly defines the the virtual civil war before us. Great evil continues to be sown by the universities that will impact the future beyond Trump. What is the answer to this dilemma?

Graduate & Professional Degree ping.

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[TADSLOS]

Republicans stand against everything that keeps Anti-America alive.

Uhhm...not so much.

[Boomer]

I recommend you two get on Jack Black’s Civil War 2 ping list, as well as Louis Foxwell’s Daniel Greenfield ping list.

That sounds like an excellent idea. Can you make that happen Mr. Black and Mr. Foxwell?

I've taken a real liking to Daniel Greenfield's work as well.

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

Excellent question: “What is the answer to this dilemma?”

The answer should be: “We go out and form alternatives to universities.”

But the problem with this answer is that the government is sponsoring the current deficiencies of our academic institutions. How then would the alternatives compete?

Truly, the only thing worse than an unfunded government mandate is a funded government mandate.

[Bigg Red]

Thanks for the ping. So many important points and memorable lines in here.

This must be done, for sure:

End the centralization of education, roll back the endless expansion of higher education and take a hard look at the corporate culture monopolies of the entertainment industry and the Berlin Wall will fall again.

[DuncanWaring]

Political maps show these alien concentrations of blue amid a vast national sea of red.

In another color scheme, the "Clinton Archipelago":

[wardaddy]

Watching how the mainstream media is ignoring or pushing back on the Susan Rice story I was thinking about this when I woke up earlier having been on the road late

But I’d like to hear Daniel opine on the culture division more.

It’s far more than GOP versus Dems

It’s them against us

They reject western civilization mostly on racial grounds but also in reference to nearly any other minority’s so called discrimination at white hands

And those aggrieved have more power than they ever have and seek to import more to bolster their numbers and we can see how they intend to deal with us

The inroads they’ve made with every generation from even pre boomers forward is scary and their influence has grown every decade since WWII

precious few kids today are not at least partially compromised even if the parents did all they could

I have no faith in the GOP

[Albion Wilde]

I would like to see the Trump administration stop funding universities where scandalous anti-American courses are taught, but it’s hard to see how they can do that other than just say “no” and not say why. The Ivies are all incredibly rich from endowments and should not need endless amounts of taxpayer funds for research. But unless the withdrawal of funds can be perceived as a punishment, the steady stream of indoctrination is unlikely to change.

If the Obama administration could force Common Core through the K-12 schools, why could not a course of traditional American history and civics be required? Right now textbooks are being written and supplied through Islamist channels.

[Albion Wilde]

One of the worst “monopolies in the entertainment industry” is that 90% of news broadcasting is controlled by about six companies based in New York. This has to stop.