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.
Of course they did. And by mid-1861 they (along with 7 other states) held state conventions. In each, delegates were chosen, and the conventions resulted in their being signatories to formal secession documents. Here is South Carolina's formal secession ordinance:
We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America," is hereby dissolved.
In each, delegates were chosen, and the conventions resulted in their being signatories to formal secession documents.
which, of course, were not recognized by the entity to which they were constitutional signatories in the first place, thus, they were not a ‘distinct nation’except in their own delusions, regardless of articles of secession not worth the paper they were written on...
The Democratic Party has been captured by the hard left. And short of a civil war that breaks their hold on it, that poses a threat to the country.
It is not a good thing for the Democrats to be controlled by leftwing extremists like in California. At some point the Republicans will wear out their welcome and the Democrats will get back into power. They better be old style Democrats.
And there you have the perfect example of a tyrannical federal government. Pretty much from that point forward, the government has increasingly restricted freedom of the states and of individuals in its never-ending quest for more power and control.
And there you have the perfect example of a tyrannical federal government.
of course, of course...those same tyrants which forced those poor, put upon troops which surrounded the entrance to Charleston to fire on hugely outgunned Fort Sumter...much like ‘tyrannical victimization’ forced Imperial Japan to attack Pearl Harbor...
your great grandfathers sowed the wind, and reaped the whirlwind...
Fort Sumter was the property of South Carolina, which was by then a member of the Confederate States of America. The CSA took pains to reach an equitable settlement concerning Ft. Sumter. Lincoln's answer was to send reinforcements; General Beauregard replied with lead once the fleet neared the entrance to Charleston Harbor because Major Anderson refused to refrain from joining any pending hostilities from the "Relief Squadron". Allowing the invading fleet to enter the harbor would have placed his troops in a crossfire, hence Bearegard fired the first shot - a shot in self-defense in response to the North's provocation.
The states entered into a voluntary union with the assumption that they could withdraw from that union. In fact, Virginia had entered the union with a written proviso that it could withdraw. One could argue for days on end as to the cause of the war: trade, states rights, slavery, etc.. However, the main reason the South fought is because it was invaded by the North.
The bottom line is that I have neither the time nor desire to litigate the war with you; especially given your reprehensible comparison of the South's self-defense to Japan's sneak attack.
Thanks again, Kaslin, for posting another good article.
It seems paleo-Conservative Dennis Prager is waking up to modern reality.
Almost.
He still uses terms like "melting pot" and "Judeo-Christian."
These are old and discredited terms and ideas to describe the founding and culture of America.
Look them up and do your research if you folks don't believe me.
Otherwise, he's right. The "Left" is an enemy to normal, Western, and modern civilization - and a lot of non-political people are finally starting to recognize that fact.
Good post. Welcome to FR.
Future elections will have no pretense about “bringing us together”.
Excellent observation.
Identity politics have arrived. There's no going back.
your great grandfathers sowed the wind, and reaped the whirlwind...
Thanks again for Demonizing the South, Mr. Liberal. Go F yourself.
No, it's not:
At least, not at first.
Great article here describing the current state of the cultural battle, not only in the US, but the world.
In addition, thank you for a very well written post.
BTTT
but it will be our first Civil War. And it is coming....
They have the judges also.
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