Posted on 01/24/2017 5:55:55 AM PST by Kaslin
It is time for our society to acknowledge a sad truth: America is currently fighting its second Civil War.
In fact, with the obvious and enormous exception of attitudes toward slavery, Americans are more divided morally, ideologically and politically today than they were during the Civil War. For that reason, just as the Great War came to be known as World War I once there was World War II, the Civil War will become known as the First Civil War when more Americans come to regard the current battle as the Second Civil War.
This Second Civil War, fortunately, differs in another critically important way: It has thus far been largely nonviolent. But given increasing left-wing violence, such as riots, the taking over of college presidents' offices and the illegal occupation of state capitols, nonviolence is not guaranteed to be a permanent characteristic of the Second Civil War.
There are those on both the left and right who call for American unity. But these calls are either naive or disingenuous. Unity was possible between the right and liberals, but not between the right and the left.
Liberalism -- which was anti-left, pro-American and deeply committed to the Judeo-Christian foundations of America; and which regarded the melting pot as the American ideal, fought for free speech for its opponents, regarded Western civilization as the greatest moral and artistic human achievement and viewed the celebration of racial identity as racism -- is now affirmed almost exclusively on the right and among a handful of people who don't call themselves conservative.
The left, however, is opposed to every one of those core principles of liberalism.
Like the left in every other country, the left in America essentially sees America as a racist, xenophobic, colonialist, imperialist, warmongering, money-worshipping, moronically religious nation.
Just as in Western Europe, the left in America seeks to erase America's Judeo-Christian foundations. The melting pot is regarded as nothing more than an anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-Hispanic meme. The left suppresses free speech wherever possible for those who oppose it, labeling all non-left speech "hate speech." To cite only one example, if you think Shakespeare is the greatest playwright or Bach is the greatest composer, you are a proponent of dead white European males and therefore racist.
Without any important value held in common, how can there be unity between left and non-left? Obviously, there cannot.
There will be unity only when the left vanquishes the right or the right vanquishes the left. Using the First Civil War analogy, American unity was achieved only after the South was vanquished and slavery was abolished.
How are those of us who oppose left-wing nihilism -- there is no other word for an ideology that holds Western civilization and America's core values in contempt -- supposed to unite with "educators" who instruct elementary school teachers to cease calling their students "boys" and "girls" because that implies gender identity? With English departments that don't require reading Shakespeare in order to receive a degree in English? With those who regard virtually every war America has fought as imperialist and immoral? With those who regard the free market as a form of oppression? With those who want the state to control as much of American life as possible? With those who repeatedly tell America and its black minority that the greatest problems afflicting black Americans are caused by white racism, "white privilege" and "systemic racism"? With those who think that the nuclear family ideal is inherently misogynistic and homophobic? With those who hold that Israel is the villain in the Middle East? With those who claim that the term "Islamic terrorist" is an expression of religious bigotry?
The third significant difference between the First and Second Civil Wars is that in the Second Civil war, one side has been doing nearly all the fighting. That is how it has been able to take over schools -- from elementary schools, to high schools, to universities -- and indoctrinate America's young people; how it has taken over nearly all the news media; and how it has taken over entertainment media.
The conservative side has lost on every one of these fronts because it has rarely fought back with anything near the ferocity with which the left fights. Name a Republican politician who has run against the left as opposed to running solely against his or her Democratic opponent. And nearly all American conservatives, people who are proud of America and affirm its basic tenets, readily send their children to schools that indoctrinate their children against everything the parents hold precious. A mere handful protest when their child's teacher ceases calling their son a boy or their daughter a girl, or makes "slave owner" the defining characteristic of the Founding Fathers.
With the defeat of the left in the last presidential election, the defeat of the left in two-thirds of the gubernatorial elections and the defeat of the left in a majority of House and Senate elections, this is likely the last chance liberals, conservatives and the right have to defeat the American left. But it will not happen until these groups understand that we are fighting for the survival of America no less than the Union troops were in the First Civil War.
Trump has got the unions now. All dems have are the snowflakes..blacks..gays..and hispanics..oh and the feminazis
the irrational behavior of the left will predicate self defense, and not a civil war.
The Makers build, mine, grow, etc while the Takers practice warfare, the arts, politics, etc.
Both need the other but if the Takers become to adept, societies fall and must be rebuilt by the Makers.
Rinse, Repeat.
And it will get violent.
The loathsome semi-females displaying parts no one would ever want to see are only the start.
The Union was not fighting for survival or against slavery up to 1863. The Union was fine albeit smaller. Only the South was fighting for its survival. At no point, at any time did the South want to occupy or conquer the North. That is silly.
There no longer exists a reasonable social consensus in America. A large proportion of the population has devolved into post religious, neo pagan decadence.
Geez!
I don't want to rain all over Prager's parade, but just what in the he11 does he think winning this war will look like?
Guess he's a half empty glass kind of guy.
The actual real violence comes when/if the entitlements are severely curtailed and they have to go and work for a living.
Now you’ve down it! You stated a fact. Stand by for incoming!
I don’t understand why they called themselves “rebels”. Rebels don’t want to just leave and be left alone.
As for a second Civil War, it’s gonna’ be hard to figure out who to shoot at.
There isn’t a reasonable social consensus now because Democrats have conspired to increase this country’s population with non-assimilating, dissatisfied foreigners to the tune of upwards of 100 million people if you count both legal and illegal entrants.
Then, couple this with a comprehensive social media, TV, Film and entertainment industry geared towards dissent and decadence, and you have a recipe for some king of final confrontation at some point which the media misery ghouls are doing their best to foment controversy.
Thank you for such a well-written contemplation of the American Condition. I’m seeing more of such observations and I wish to encourage more folks to post such sensible outlooks of the conditions we are currently facing in these times of discord.
I would normally think there isn’t a person who would want to give up their freedom for the sake of an ideology, but I’m not so sure of that nowadays. It is deeply perplexing to me how the “left” whole-heartedly ignore the tenets of liberalism to the point of almost becoming alt-right.
It would be easy to dismiss that as stupidity, but I fear that it’s due to outright mania - as if there has been an extinction level event that has left pockets of humans pillaging and plundering their way through the day like barbarians.
I prefer to think there are enough of us Americans who hold dear our freedoms and will do what is necessary to preserve them - as evidenced by the Presidential Election of 2016. We must realize that Donald Trump, his Cabinet, the Supreme Court and the Senate can’t fight the good fight alone.
We cannot sit back and allow the Enemies of Freedom (my nickname for the left) to stifle our speech, restrict our safety, or twist the minds of our young to believe in un-American ideals which - at the very heart of them - are designed to destroy our country.
We must not leave it all to chance by remaining idle thinking it’s someone else’s job to keep us free. It would be an insult to those who gave their lives for us. It would be a crime to allow such a world to come to fruition for our children to live in.
Protest if you will, but do it peacefully without surrender. Boycott those people and institutions which support anti-American agencies. Don’t cower in the face of dictatorship - but don’t invite it either. I mean in our everyday interactions, like when someone tries to berate you or tell you the opinion you have is wrong. You don’t have to get your point across by being a bully.
We’re smart, sensible people. Let’s lead the restoration by example.
Never forget that the Democrats that fostered that change were themselves neo pagan, decadent endemic Americans. Values matter. Future elections will have no pretense about “bringing us together”.
These are two possible non-war solutions.
Ping.
“The irrational behavior of the left will predicate self defense, and not a civil war.”
True! No clashes between opposing armies, but you might have to shoot your way out of a riot.
In my opinion the first shot has already been fired in Dallas Texas when our men in blue were murdered while on duty.
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