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| The Two Americas |
| 2017-06-12 |
| [American Thinker] For many years now, we conservatives have had the impression that our nation is fragmenting. Day by day, more signs of this disintegration accumulate. Throughout it all, many of us had hoped that the fragmentation could be reversed. We tried to persuade ourselves that our republic would prove resistant to unconstitutional ideas, and that the American people would come to their senses and reunite, before irreversible catastrophe occurred. That hope seems to be quickly vanishing. Two items in the news are of special interest. One of them is that protesters are conducting marches against Sharia Law. The other involves a young woman named Reality Winner, who has been arrested and jailed on charges of stealing and publishing secret government documents, that purport to link Russia to election hacking. Winner’s motive seems linked to the fact that she has been publicly opposed to the Trump presidency -- so much so as to have advocated destroying the White House. These news items are only two of the latest, among the many examples of the increasingly rancorous divide in American politics. The march against Sharia Law is predictably being characterized by the left as an example of right-wing racism and intolerance. (One wonders, when will the left march against Islamic homophobia?) However, the fear of Sharia Law is not entirely imaginary. There is a recurring effort by Moslems to institute it. And there are other ways in which Moslems segregate themselves from the rest of society. Most recently, this has taken the form of demanding that the government provide Muslims with "safe spaces." The spaces would shield them from surveillance, so that they could -- and the Moslems specify this -- say things that they otherwise could not say in the open. What, pray tell, are they afraid to say in the open, that radicals of both the right and left are not already saying? Burn down the White House? Murder homosexuals? My lifelong optimism for America is being challenged by the divisiveness in our society. Once the mighty boulder is cleft, there is no way to return it to its former state. The American Revolution gave us a war not only against the British Empire, but it also pitted Americans against each other, Tory versus Patriot. A second American Civil War would be bloody and destructive on a scale none of us has seen in our lifetime within these borders. Even so, a Second American Revolution may be unavoidable. Constitutional government may require it. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 No truce with these evil people. And "evil" is the correct term. There's no other way to describe anyone over the age of 30 with at least a high school education that supported HRC. I'm no longer willing to write such support off as "willful blindness"--there HAD to be some part of their soul who knew she was evil...and went along with her anyway. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2017-06-12 17:49 |
| #8 ...(and probably light sentences in the name of reconciliation) I'm past that. If I'm rounding up these traitors and fascists trying to flee, they will end up at the end of a rope or against a wall. No truce with these evil people. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-06-12 15:43 |
| #7 Found this little ditty by Bill Whittle again on another website. Similar in scope. Worth the read |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2017-06-12 14:56 |
| #6 The last time around that got us the Klan and local suppression of civil liberties. One person's civil liberty is another person's terrorism/fascism/insert favorite -ism here. Two Americas. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-06-12 12:36 |
| #5 (and probably light sentences in the name of reconciliation). The last time around that got us the Klan and local suppression of civil liberties. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-06-12 12:04 |
| #4 A 'second' civil war would be short, and horrible for any minority communities that fall for the liberals siren call of uprising. After all one "faction" is very well armed, contains most of the military and police, and controls the food. Sure a civil war could play out in multiple ways but most likely it's rioting in the inner cities, blackouts, a system to process refugees as they flee the quarantine, starvation in the inner cities, and a round-up of traitors for trial (and probably light sentences in the name of reconciliation). A lot of good might come in the aftermath as everyone finally talks about WTF. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-06-12 11:52 |
| #3 There are two Americas? Where have I heard this before? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-06-12 10:49 |
| #2 Note - first American Civil War was back in 1776, see - King's Mountain, loyalist vs patriots. Unlike the second when America was largely a rural nation that grew its own, independent of a very elaborate infrastructure, the contemporary world is very dependent upon processes that can easily be disrupted which will result in the old four horsemen of the apocalypse consequences. The most susceptible being large urban areas which will become death traps without outside support. Think Hurricane Katrina or Andrew without the outside world coming to the rescue a dozen times over. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-06-12 10:10 |
| #1 A second American Civil War would be bloody and destructive on a scale none of us has seen in our lifetime within these borders. Even so, a Second American Revolution may be unavoidable. Constitutional government may require it. A political party in total denial and dedicated to systematic obstruction, urban unrest, mall and store closures, epidemic drug abuse, college campuses in rebellion; I reckon we know where the fires will start. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-06-12 08:33 |