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.
You forgot the Intelligentsia.
Democrats started the first civil war.
"We should have exorcised the who gaggle of demonic females."
I want a divorce. The Liberals can have their East and Left coast enclaves and Sh!tcago. We'll take the rest.
There is no difference now between the left and libs. All the same...enraged without cause, violent and dangerous.
Me too. I will never surrender to those sons of bitches. My dying breath, I will still be fighting them.
Yup! The Rats emulate a virus, that needs to be eradicated from time to time so that the body can rejuvenate and become healthy once again, before the next viral attack.
There isn't.
Our opponents think that once most of "us" are dead, the rest in chains, that they will rule freely and absolutely, not realizing that once most of "us" are gone, they themselves will be on their way to the gulags.
‘Poor Dennis. This election’s taken all the life out of him.’
Not to nitpick, but it will be our first Civil War. And it is coming....
Don’t start nuttin, won’t be nuttin.
“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?”
You raise a good point. Even the putative “conservative” writers live in the same MSM bubble universe that all of their leftist writer colleagues populate. They all view things through a common filter, the “Beltway”. But Trump’s victory has shown us that these talking heads of the left or the right do not live in the world that the vast majority of middle Americans encounter everyday.
It’s gotten to the point that I don’t read anything or watch anything from any established “news” entity anymore. I get all of my information from a few carefully selected web sources that have shown themselves to be truthful and reliable. And I find I know more about current affairs than most people I encounter. We are living in a time unlike any other since the invention of the printing press; I call it the Internet Age.
Ok...you shot one over my head. What’chu mean willis?
Being a Southerner, I consider the War for Southern Independence to be a war between two distinct nations.
The way I see it is that there are wealthy and powerful globalist puppeteers who fund and direct “the left”, it’s agenda and it’s politicians in both parties. They are both foreign and domestic.
We need to cut the snake’s head off and the treasonous “left” collapses. If there comes a war, going for the globalist’s snake’s head would be the way to go.
Love to have ya on board.
Anyway,I moved from North Alabama to the Birmingham area in 97, and other interests took priority. In the meantime, I got into genealogy and found that I have pretty deep CSA roots on Dad's side. Lost a couple of great-great uncles in The Cause, plus another one was a state rep in Kentucky who fled the state because authorities were after him for recruiting for the South. He wound up in Virginia and served in the Confederate House of Representatives for the duration.
Anyway, you've reminded me that I need to renew those old ties (moved back to Athens last year) and also upgrade my membership. Thanks!
Fantastic article.
Well we’d be glad to have ya. I am a member of SCV Texas.
Both my GG Grandads fought outta Haywood co. North Carolina, Loves company.
Pretty proud of my heritage. God bless brother.
I consider the War for Southern Independence to be a war between two distinct nations.
so the delegates from the states of VA, NC, SC, and GA were in fact not signatories to the Constitution of the United States in September of 1787...?
Gee, who knew...?
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