Posted on 11/08/2018 8:39:26 PM PST by blam
Strong rhetoric and violence on both sides of the political spectrum are reaching a fever pitch
Is the United States on the brink of a new civil war?
According to Newsweek magazine’s polling, a third of all Americans think such a conflict could break out within the next five years, with 10% thinking it “very likely to happen.” Plenty of experts agree. Back in March, State Department official Keith Mines told Foreign Policy magazine: “It is like 1859, everyone is mad about something and everyone has a gun.” He rated the odds of a second American Civil War breaking out within the next 10-15 years at 60%.
October’s awful events — pipe bombs sent to leading Democratic politicians and supporters, the mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh — have only amplified these fears. “We are now nearing a point comparable to 1860,” my Stanford University colleague Victor Davis Hanson recently wrote in the National Review.
The historian Niall Ferguson, another Stanford colleague, suggested in The Sunday Times of London that if someone were to design a “Civil War Clock” comparable to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ “Doomsday Clock,” the designer would probably now be announcing that it is “two minutes to Fort Sumter.”
Ferguson himself is more upbeat, thinking that “the time on the civil war Doomsday Clock looks more like 11.08 than 11.58.” It seems to me, though, that all these speculations are deeply misleading — so much so, in fact, that the main thing they illustrate is how not to use the past to understand the present.
Similarities, differences and broad patterns
There are certainly some striking similarities between the American political scene in the late 2010s and that of the late 1850s. Both periods saw extreme polarization over issues of intense economic and emotional importance.
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Thanks for looking that up for me.
I’m still posting because my daughter’s in labor tonight.
Gonna be a grampa in the morning. Again ;-)
OMG!!!
Congratulations and prayers for everything to go perfectly!
Whew...
For a minute there, I thought some varmint had got into your house and attacked you :-)
Thank you!
I’m about to text my wife for an update. My daughter had dilated to 9.5 centimeters hours ago. They’re probly cooing over the baby now.
Nah.
He’s a sweetheart.
One of my rescued things.
Squeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Can’t wait to hear boy or girl!
Whichever, it will be beautiful, I’m sure!
Baby boy is here! Daughter and hubby are taking him home now, with Grandma close behind.
Everyone’s well :-)
Eeeee!!!!
Welcome to the world, newest little Windflier!
:D
His parents are both lookers, so I'm sure he'll be a cutie.
Right now he looks like an old prune :-)
Thank you so much. Now I can finally get some sleep!
I’m sure your daughter takes after you so the baby has to be a looker!
Seriously, this made my whole night.
I’ll have a stupid grin on my face all day.
:)
Congratulations again to you and the whole family!
SO glad everything went well.
Rest easy, now.
Good night, Grandpa Windflier.
:)
Aw... I'm blushing :-)
Thank you again!
-—> stupid grin :D
Alaska’s pretty big and is bristling with people with guns. The Russians might even leave the strip where Juneau is alone, since it also borders Canada to its South as well as East and might be to big to commit occupying troops to. Russia proper only has 160 million people and its integral territory is huge and they know China is eyeing Siberia. Alaska will probably be left alone.
My estimate is 60 million...we can’t even comprehend what angry unemployed engineers can create in their garages and work benches.( lots of old electronics around that can be repurposed) I see 60 million killed in a war that splits the nation in 3 or 4 sections. Might even involve tactical nukes since desperate tyrants will use extreme measures to keep their power.
It’s quite evident that neither side likes the other. How about a friendly separation instead of a civil war.
US Civil War II
Soros and deep staters and globalist dream. But I repeat myself.
I’ve been saying for a while now, including on this forum, that the question of our age is whether one segment of our society will be able, and allowed, to vote the rest of us into slavery. So far they’re winning, IMO.
We have leftwing groups of weirdos committing violent acts and being shielded by the government. It’s only a matter of time before right-leaning people start organizing to fight them in the streets in reaction. It’s already happening some. We live in Weimerica.
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