Without lending credence either way, the concept of a civil war keeps being brought up in many contexts. One of them is that it might be a "second" civil war.
Nope, the first civil war was the Revolutionary war. We were one British people who fought a war over our differences; back then, and again in the 1860's.
We won our war, the South did not fare so well in theirs. They saw the revolution as the victory of a determined underdog against the world's strongest power, and said they could do the same. Unfortunately for them, not so.
Any subsequent civil war would be our third. So, civil war is not truly such an impossible thing.
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The concept of a Second Amendment Sanctuary municipality simply gives credence to Immigration Violator Sanctuary cities. Both creatures are simply the artificial constructs of those who accept that politics is a solution to a basically existential question.
The problems we have today are the logical consequences of trying to solve non-political problems with political artifices. Politics is not only not the answer to many problems, it is not the answer to most of them.
There used to be an educational profession that strove to impart tradition, individual freedoms and their consequent responsibilities, and general decency toward all folks, not just your favorite folks. It was trod under the juggernaut of political correctness.
Political correctness is itself simply too politically correct, and is a direct offshoot of the way of the lazy, who try to force society into devolving individual responsibility onto the political system. That system was never intended for such endeavors, and fails miserably when forced into such a mold. It is a fatal mistake.
The problem with politics is that too many employ it as a means to exercise personal power to achieve personal goals, rather than the people's power to achieve the people's goals, as was intended. In their cunning wickedness, they began their power grab by enacting laws that make them immune to genuine justice. The system has failed, and has been done so not only intentionally, it has also been rendered irreparable by those same intentions. Restoring the system to prior status quo could only be pointless, since it is precisely the means by which we have arrived at this point.
Something else must be tried. I say tried, because all political systems are experiments, and when evil is permitted to participate in the political process, it fails. This is unavoidable, and to the intellectually honest, unavoidable. Democracy is yet another failed experiment; failed because evil was not prohibited from participating. We need another experiment, and this time, not such a grand one. Grand experiments are doomed to failure, because the world is not a grand one, it is a real one.
What to try? If pressed, I suggest a reading of Heinlein's Starship Trooper. In his words, from his book, and not the glossy contraction that formed the basis of the motion picture. The book does not stand alone, it has a living, functioning following.
For those who respect the rule of law, I applaud your credence in such things.
For those who want to see the current morass resolved, I suggest that when the laws flout genuine justice, they become the chains of tyranny; which is precisely that which our forebears threw off in the 1770's and 1780's.
That's an opinion...
Greg
Nope, the first civil war was the Revolutionary war. We were one British people who fought a war over our differences; back then, and again in the 1860's.
We won our war, the South did not fare so well in theirs. They saw the revolution as the victory of a determined underdog against the world's strongest power, and said they could do the same. Unfortunately for them, not so.
Any subsequent civil war would be our third. So, civil war is not truly such an impossible thing.
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The concept of a Second Amendment Sanctuary municipality simply gives credence to Immigration Violator Sanctuary cities. Both creatures are simply the artificial constructs of those who accept that politics is a solution to a basically existential question.
The problems we have today are the logical consequences of trying to solve non-political problems with political artifices. Politics is not only not the answer to many problems, it is not the answer to most of them.
There used to be an educational profession that strove to impart tradition, individual freedoms and their consequent responsibilities, and general decency toward all folks, not just your favorite folks. It was trod under the juggernaut of political correctness.
Political correctness is itself simply too politically correct, and is a direct offshoot of the way of the lazy, who try to force society into devolving individual responsibility onto the political system. That system was never intended for such endeavors, and fails miserably when forced into such a mold. It is a fatal mistake.
The problem with politics is that too many employ it as a means to exercise personal power to achieve personal goals, rather than the people's power to achieve the people's goals, as was intended. In their cunning wickedness, they began their power grab by enacting laws that make them immune to genuine justice. The system has failed, and has been done so not only intentionally, it has also been rendered irreparable by those same intentions. Restoring the system to prior status quo could only be pointless, since it is precisely the means by which we have arrived at this point.
Something else must be tried. I say tried, because all political systems are experiments, and when evil is permitted to participate in the political process, it fails. This is unavoidable, and to the intellectually honest, unavoidable. Democracy is yet another failed experiment; failed because evil was not prohibited from participating. We need another experiment, and this time, not such a grand one. Grand experiments are doomed to failure, because the world is not a grand one, it is a real one.
What to try? If pressed, I suggest a reading of Heinlein's Starship Trooper. In his words, from his book, and not the glossy contraction that formed the basis of the motion picture. The book does not stand alone, it has a living, functioning following.
For those who respect the rule of law, I applaud your credence in such things.
For those who want to see the current morass resolved, I suggest that when the laws flout genuine justice, they become the chains of tyranny; which is precisely that which our forebears threw off in the 1770's and 1780's.
That's an opinion...
Greg
