“I hate the Left with a passion. I’m no longer young, but would take up arms against them if it ever came to that.”
When I first learned about and studied the Civil War, it was hard to understand how Americans could wind up being so incapable of finding common ground that they started killing each other. What I’m seeing now is making it clear how that can happen. We are now clearly living in a highly divided America, and the lighter fluid being squirted on the flame of division is the media and the entertainment industry.
“When I first learned about and studied the Civil War, it was hard to understand how Americans could wind up being so incapable of finding common ground that they started killing each other.”
John Batchelor has several interviews with Michael Vlahos of the Naval War College on the histories of various civil wars and whether or not we are right now in the lead up to one.
Vlahos is a rather squishy conservative, but these are interesting. He posits that when both sides are uncompromising about their own moral superiority, it opens the way to view the other side as immoral, and therefore must be subjugated.
The full list:
https://audioboom.com/search/posts?q=civil+war+michael+vlahos+john+batchelor
Here are a couple of good ones:
https://audioboom.com/posts/6637666-is-the-civil-war-upon-us-us-is-2018-the-same-as-1854-michael-michael-vlahos-naval-war-college-jhuworldcrisis