Posted on 01/09/2019 4:24:51 PM PST by Aquamarine
Jack Minzey, sent what was to be the final chapter in the long line of books and treatises which he had written. Jack went to be with the Lord, on Sunday, 8 April 2018. Professionally, Jack was head of the Department of Education at Eastern Michigan University as well as a prolific author of numerous books, most of which were on the topic of Education and the Government role therein. His interest in Conservative Politics was exceeded only by his intellectual ability. This is the last of his works:
Civil War
How do civil wars happen?
Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can't settle the question through elections because they don't even agree that elections are how you decide who's in charge. That's the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.
The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it's not the first time they've done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn't really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There's a pattern here.
What do sure odds of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don't accept the results of any election that they don't win. It means they don't believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections.
That's a civil war.
There's no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the Democrats have rejected our system of government.
This isn't dissent. It's not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they're the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election. When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don't win, what you want is a dictatorship.
Your very own dictatorship.
The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to Democrats, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it's inherently illegitimate. The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can't scratch his own back without his say so, that's the civil war.
Our system of government is based on the constitution, but that's not the system that runs this country. The Democrat's system is that any part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the country. If the Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do anything And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. His power is unlimited. He's a dictator.
But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the President can't do anything. He isn't even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented. A Democrat in the White House has 'discretion' to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn't even have the 'discretion' to reverse him. That's how the game is played That's how our country is run. Sad but true, although the left hasn't yet won that particular fight. When a Democrat is in the White House, states aren't even allowed to enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission. But under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries.
The Constitution has something to say about that. Whether it's Federal or State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left moves power around to run the country. If it controls an institution, then that institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land. This is what I call a moving dictatorship. Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding: Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds. You can't serve in if you're not a member. If you haven't been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals. If you aren't in the club. And Trump isn't in the club. He brought in a bunch of people who aren't in the club with him.
Now we're seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down.
That's not a free country. It's not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an 'insurance policy' against Trump winning the election. It's not a free country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the opposition. It's not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media. It's not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn't supposed to win did.
Have no doubt, we're in a civil war between conservative volunteer government and a leftist Democrat professional government.
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FYI, America has already been experiencing a cold civil war for at least a decade.
“FYI, America has already been experiencing a cold civil war for at least a decade. “
Indeed. Only a tipping point is needed to change the temperature.
A popular topic these days, sadly.
The Spanish Civil War is a common model for the current process of radicalization of the “sides”, in a modern polity. Interesting if rather belated article.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/learning-from-the-spanish-civil-war/
I highly recommend Beevor’s “Battle For Spain”, as a superb case study of how these things can go. The communal hatred that is growing in the US does seem very “Spanish”, in that way.
100%. Now, all it takes is a spark, and it need not be a large spark.
One side promises you that if you join a ‘union’ and you don’t like it you can leave.
Then when you try to leave (like if they tell you you can’t own slaves anymore) they send people with guns to tell you that you can’t leave.
But it could be them forcing you to do anything- like buy health insurance.
For a civil war that looks like ours or the Spanish civil war you need two polities with contiguous borders and access to resources. Our civil war would be countries versus cities except fedgov and archers daniel midland would be sure to control all major food and water supplies. You’d need an evenly split armed forces for this to work. I don’t see a scenario where that is likely - depending on what happens the armed forces are going to strongly on the side of the existing government or the people trying to overthrow it.
I really believe we are headed for a second civil war. Ronald Reagan always predicted one would come, and I believe him. It will not be pretty from the start to the end. Shucks, we may come to live under the Chinese, the Indians, The Russians, the Iranians...who knows. One thing I do know for sure, individual freedom and liberty will die...forever!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqn0kiYBiMI&list=PL4w-2j6Q0Qj4iJ7GmEoQGWMUBeE5h1GVq
The Brits did a 6 part documentary series on the Spanish Civil War back in the 80’s much similar to ‘The World at War’ and were able to still interview some of it’s aged participants.
It was actually more Spanish than Communist vs. Fascist. Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini were all frustrated with the factions they were backing.
The Spanish military was not evenly split - the vast majority remained loyal to the Republic, regardless of the popular myths.
However, some critical parts of it, the so called “Army of Africa”, which was by far the most experienced and best trained, declared for the Nationalists. They put in an astonishing military performance in the desperate early weeks of the war, and thereby kept the rebellion in business.
Spain was also split by country vs city, and class vs class. It certainly wasn’t unified regions against each other. It was a terrible, mixed-up, chaotic situation, and which piece of ground went to one side or another was a matter of chance. It is a rather good analogy of the situation that could be in the US.
"...Civil War / Civil War II..."
A US Civil War will also be extremely complex, extremely parochial, and will no doubt frustrate any foreign powers who decide to intervene.
Have been at war ever since they required me to buy health insurance I did not want. And they have not seen a personal income tax return from me since. Wake me when the shooting starts.
The problem with democracy is when Democrats lose by one vote then you might have civil war.
After all, Democrats work hard to cheat the ballot boxes.
The critical point is not who owns resources “on paper”, but who controls the territories on which they lie.
One of the first casualties in such a war is property rights, and the other casualty is authority. The law becomes much more about who can enforce it.
Civil wars destroy economies and dissolve militaries, and eliminate wealth based on debt or equity ownership. Money becomes less meaningful with extreme inflation and the loss of legitimacy.
It is hard to imagine this stuff if you have not been in such a situation, and a typical thing is for large numbers of people to continue to assume things are normal, when they are not.
Thank God we have never had one of those before. Lol.
Like these quotes from "The Russian Revolution" by Alan Moorehead 1958. And like what's happening here now.
"… this was a predatory state which the Czar and a small group of noblemen and bureaucrats ruled for their own exclusive benefit...The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants to be little better than animals..."
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