Is America headed toward a new Civil War? (link)
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Date: June 25th, 2018 11:58 AM Author: Ivory school death wish
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/06/25/sanders-nielsen-incidents-suggest-new-us-civil-war-underway-column/729141002/
"Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kirstjen Nielsen experiences at restaurants suggest a 'soft' civil war is well underway. It will get worse unless we learn to stop hating each other.
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The other day, authorTom Ricks asked whether we’re heading toward a civil war. "I don’t believe we’re to Kansas of the 1850s yet. But we seem to be lurching ... in that direction,” he wrote.
Ricks was commenting on “What Democratic rage would look like,” a Bloomberg opinion column that quotes political scientist Thomas Schaller as saying, "I think we're at the beginning of a soft civil war. ... I don't know if the country gets out of it whole."
That sounds pretty serious. The column by Francis Wilkinson presents a catalog of things Democrats are mad about — from the existence of the electoral college to Trump’s “propaganda apparatus” — and predicts that if Democrats lose the midterm elections, there will be hell to pay. (And Republicans, you know, could make a similar list of their own complaints.)
“I don't know exactly what that would look like," Wilkinson writes. "But liberals have a great deal of cultural, academic and economic heft, stretching from Hollywood to Harvard. Just this week, someHollywood powerhouses flirted with leveraging their clout against the Trumpist Fox News. There are endless variations on such a power play. If Democrats opt to use their power more aggressively — breaking rules — Schaller's soft civil war hardly seems unlikely.”
The civil war is already starting
Well, actually this sort of thing seems to be well underway. Hollywood has basically turned its products, and its award shows, into showcases for "the resistance." Americans are already sorting themselves into communities that are predominantly red or blue. And in heavily blue Washington, D.C., Trump staffers find that a lot of people don’t want to date them because of their politics.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was even kicked out of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, because the owner and employees disliked her politics. This seems like a small thing, but it would have been largely unthinkable a generation ago.
And, in a somewhat less “soft” manifestation, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was bullied out of a restaurant by an angry anti-Trump mob, and a similar mob also showed up outside of her home.
More: Red Hen's LGBT employees should have made sure Sarah Sanders got served
Sarah Huckabee Sanders guide to refusing service: Christian baker can, Red Hen can't
Why is Harvard discriminating against Asian Americans? 'Diversity' is no excuse for racial bias.
Will it get worse? Probably. To have a civil war, soft or otherwise, takes two sides. But as pseudonymous tweeter Thomas H. Crown notes, it’s childishly easy in these days to identify people in mobs, and then to dispatch similar mobs to their homes and workplaces. Eventually, he notes, it becomes “protesters all the way down, and if we haven't yet figured out that can lead to political violence, we're dumb.”
Apparently, some of us are dumb or else want violence. As Crown warns, “We carefully erected civil peace to avoid this sort of devolution-to-a-mob. It is a great civilizational achievement and it is intensely fragile.” Yes, it is indeed fragile, and many people will miss it when it’s entirely gone.
Political contempt is the problem
Marriage counselors say that when a couple view one another with contempt, it’s a top indicator that the relationship is likely to fail. Americans, who used to know how to disagree with one another without being mutually contemptuous, seem to be forgetting this. And the news media, which promote shrieking outrage in pursuit of ratings and page views, are making the problem worse.
What would make things better? It would be nice if people felt social ties that transcend politics. Americans’ lives used to involve a lot more intermediating institutions — churches, fraternal organizations, neighborhoods — that crossed political lines. Those have shrunk and decayed, and in fact, for many people politics seems to have become a substitute for religion or fraternal organizations. If you find your identity in your politics, you’re not going to identify with people who don’t share them.
The rules of bourgeois civility also helped keep things in check, but of course those rules have been shredded for years. We may come to miss them.
America had one disastrous civil war, and those who fought it did a surprisingly good job of coming together afterward, realizing how awful it was to have a political divide that set brother against brother. Let us hope that we will not have to learn that lesson again in a similar fashion."
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009818&forum_id=2#36305754) |
Date: June 25th, 2018 12:08 PM Author: lime locus useless brakes
This is the direct result of the far left and fake news media labeling conservative opinions, mainly opposition to illegal immigrants and tranny bathroom like stuff, as racist and homophobic etc.
Also from labeling Trump racist against blacks and Hispanics, even though he's never said or done anything actually racist against blacks and the only thing he's said that's actually racist towards Hispanics was an intentionally misconstrued quote from the beginning of his campaign.
The media wants civil war and the left is falling for it.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009818&forum_id=2#36305800) |
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Date: June 25th, 2018 8:01 PM Author: Motley corn cake indian lodge
To be fair,
MFCR, anyone who thinks that the sight of government troops intentionally shooting hundreds or thousands of white American citizens on American soil wouldn't immediately galvanize the sane contingent of the population to effectively topple the federal government is delusional. America may not be the nation it was 50 (or even 20) years ago, but even in 2018 Americans of all races and creeds by and large would not stand for that.
And that's assuming that the military was willing to go along with this imaginary civil war in the first place--which is an extremely dubious proposition.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009818&forum_id=2#36308726) |
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Date: June 25th, 2018 1:09 PM Author: pearly senate
If there is a civil war, it will start with shitlib and conservahero groups, clubs, unorganized militias, etc. going at it with the military sitting on the sidelines. Widespread Charlottesville incidents, political assassinations, mob attacks, etc. directed at intimidating the other side. It starts slow and escalates slowly, as things that were previously unheard of become common and no longer shocking (i.e. leftists attacking people at Trump rallies, etc.) The powers that be don't crack down on their side because they, in the absence of action, are encouraging this kind of political violence and warfare (i.e. San Jose, etc.)
In a way, this has already started, it just hasn't escalated yet into what most people consider a "war." It would be great if things cooled down, but the November midterm and 2020 POTUS election are likely going to see a more violence as opposed to less.
US military doesn't engage in US Civil War II, instead servicemen fade into the partisan camps as private citizens.
The tanks and planes stay parked.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009818&forum_id=2#36306193) |
Date: June 25th, 2018 1:53 PM Author: lime locus useless brakes
It's hard to imagine what the non- Fox News media will be like heading into Midterms. It'll be worse than it is now or was before 2016 election. If GOP keeps house and senate there will be a campaign to change our electoral system and abolish the "racist" constitution. It's gonna be insane. All because of the media and 10% of our population which are freaks.
I hope Trump enacts martial law
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009818&forum_id=2#36306457) |
Date: June 26th, 2018 12:10 PM Author: tripping prole
LMAO @ some morbidly obese purple haired feminist sweatily waddling up Main Street flanked by two soy boys all holding guns they don’t know how to shoot and trying to menace some unhinged right wing gun nut with a six figure private arsenal
Something like 8 out of 10 deaths in Colombia’s civil war were right wingers massacring leftists. There’s a reason for that.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009818&forum_id=2#36312060) |
Date: June 26th, 2018 1:33 PM Author: Coral Laughsome Crackhouse Masturbator
Dan Carlin recently did a podcast on this. Argued that a “civil war” would look like the 1968ish time period when there were thousands of left-wing terrorist bombings (the weathermen, etc.), not a conventional civil war.
https://www.dancarlin.com/product/common-sense-316-the-day-of-the-dove/
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009818&forum_id=2#36312639) |
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