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-Great Cultural Revolution
ION Are We Looking At Another Civil War?
2022-07-12
[Townhall] Consider the logic of the left and it’s no wonder that many people are considering the unspeakable — whether America will devolve into actual violent conflict. But I dare speak about it at length in my brand-new book We’ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America, which confronts this issue of systematic political violence head-on. The most important question related to the long decline of America at the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and terminally foolish ruling caste that controls our major institutions is whether we can pull out of this tailspin without bloodshed.

I sure hope so, but the risk is real and we need to confront it.

The logic of the left accepts political violence. A few years ago, one of its acolytes tried to wipe out the congressional Republican caucus on a softball field; last month, another member of the MSNBCNN target demo tried to off Justice Kavanaugh for somewhat limiting the ability of progressives to conveniently kill babies. Even the reaction to the recent molestation of the famously beer-ophilic jurist as he nibbled on a rib-eye at Morton’s in DC was indicative — this personal confrontation was celebrated by the left instead of decried. What’s the logical limit when you sign onto the idea that one can legitimately influence politics via the personal intimidation of officials placed in office by our agreed constitutional procedures? If you can get in his face, why can’t you slap it? Or put a bullet in it? If there is a boundary, the left is not setting it. Keep in mind that civil conflict is not unknown in America, Our revolution was also a civil war — one sparked by tyrants seeking to enforce gun control. The Civil War that followed four score and change years later was sparked by Democrats angry over the Republican demand that they stopped treating human beings inhumanly — a theme that continues to this day. Prior to the War Between the States was a war between the pro- and anti-slavery militias along the Missouri-Kansas borders.

In the late-sixties/early-seventies, there was an urban leftist insurgency by groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers that resulted in hundreds of bombings and many killings. It was dealt with as a law enforcement matter, but in a distinctly militaristic way. The Los Angeles Police Department famously annihilated most of the Symbionese Liberation Army — whose battle cry was "DEATH TO THE FASCIST INSECT!" — in a blazing firefight in South Central that was broadcast on national TV.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Amen, 49 Pan. Civil wars look like Lebanon.
Posted by: Glenmore    2022-07-12 16:25  

#3  Ah'm a 1%er.

Andersonville Prison
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-12 14:01  

#2  99% of American have a delusional idea of Civil War and the aftermath. If they understood, the war would be for peace..
Posted by: 49 Pan   2022-07-12 08:22  

#1  What if one side declared civil war and found they were a small fraction with no support and the other side was far better armed and trained?

I'm thinking it'll end up like the Weatherman and the pathetic commie terrorist groups in the 60s/70s.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-07-12 08:16  

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