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| The Question That Someone Asks Nearly Every Week - Is a Second Civil War Coming? |
| 2019-03-01 |
| [American Thinker] Civil wars are horrendous and bloody affairs. That's why we should avoid them. They happen when two sides cannot settle on who runs the country. When they can't reconcile the matter through elections, the country falls apart. When one side does not accept the election results, we have a countdown to a civil war. This is the thesis put forth by journalist Daniel Greenfield. It rings true on many levels. Does the fact that Democrats are rejecting a duly elected Republican president really mean they don't accept the results of any election they don't win? If so, we may be already nearing America's Second Civil War. It is no secret that Democrats and Republicans are more ideologically divided than in recent years. Parts of the country detest the other parts. Coastal elites dislike flyover country. The blue states despise the red states, and vice versa. We may now be near a point comparable to 1860. Modern Democrats hate President Trump as much as the Democrats of old hated President Lincoln. Democrats repudiated Lincoln for opposing slavery, and modern Democratic leaders are repudiating Lincoln's belief that the government is of the people, for the people, and by the people. Then as now, Democrats are on the wrong side of history. The average conservative and the average liberal disagree on the vast majority of the issues, and in the few cases where they can agree, each won't support the other out of sheer tribalism for his side. Since Democrats can't win the argument with reason and facts, they try to intimidate us into silence. While Trump is their focus, we should know that the loathing is really against normal everyday Americans. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 It's all over in California. They won. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-03-01 17:36 |
| #7 #6 IMO, looking at the forest - not the trees, it's already on. And they are winning because you fight it on their terms. Yes, if the Right has "all teh gunz!", then why is the left doing all the shooting? |
| Posted by: charger 2019-03-01 17:09 |
| #6 IMO, looking at the forest - not the trees, it's already on. And they are winning because you fight it on their terms. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-03-01 13:29 |
| #5 forever is a long time to keep your temper.... Once a person has mastered the vice of procrastination, they can solve their anger issues by a careful sequencing of these vices. Just procrastinate your anger indefinitely. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-03-01 13:22 |
| #4 WE HAVE ALREADY HAD TWO CIVIL WARS. Bloody ignorance! |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-03-01 13:20 |
| #3 As that sort of thing gets closer a lot of folks will start to pay actual attention to the news and may find they have been lied to constantly by the media an political class. Civil war aborted at the ballot box with both parties losing vast numbers. Who gets the votes I don't know at this point. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-03-01 12:29 |
| #2 OTH__ forever is a long time to keep your temper.... |
| Posted by: Clolunter Lover of the Swedes6280 2019-03-01 12:21 |
| #1 No. life is too good for it to happen. most people could care less. as long as theres plenty of food, leisure time, and spare cash, nobody will lift a finger to help politicians with their BS games |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2019-03-01 11:22 |