https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
^^^ How many were the Secessionists and the Unionists willing to have die for their causes? Hey, the footsoldiers got slaughtered wholesale. Not the politicians. Or the business-interests (on both sides) who funded the whole thing.
Wars are not logical. They make no sense. Well, that is unless they are fought by vassels. In which case, it's a splendid, profitable little spectacle and doesn't touch your neighborhood. It's why 'total war' as practiced by Grant and Sherman and Sheridan... and almost all armies since... came as such a shock. "Wait... we never counted on having our plantation burned. This is not what we signed up for." "But... Dresden... how dare they?"
Funny thing is that if you extrapolate this whole thing out a bit... it's still the Cold War. It's Communist ideology running rampant in our Constitutional Republic... which is at odds with the centrally-controlled and planned economic and social groupthink that is at the core of Communist ideology. It IS what McCarthy railed on about... it IS what was predicted back all the way from the 1920's when COMINTERN laid out their plans... and Americans looked at it and shuddered.
But, hey they are patient... and I daresay they are willing to sacrifice the entire population... as long as their political agenda arises from the ashes. That, by the way, is core to Communist expansionism and their belief in the eventual triumph of their cause. Marx said that it is inevitable that we will end up in 'his' Utopia. And for the losers and idiots that follow false dreams (or easy ones.... sit back and you will get your reward... just believe what I tell you?) it's sure easier than getting a job or coming up with a good patent. Does this also sound familiar? Martyr yourself... and you will have a reward with Allah... you will be remembered. Your life here in this sh**hole sucks... but blow yourself and a marketplace to kingdom come... and you'll get virgins in the afterlife. Follow my ideology... don't think for yourself or strive for better. It's all in Allah's hands anyway... How is that different from "Communism is inevitable and so you might as well get aboard the red train to Utopia where we are all equal and Unicorns and crap? How much of a leap, then, is it to assume that the same tactics (ANTIFA? Weather Underground Bombings? Days of Rage? Kill 30 million Kulaks) would not make total sense to get to the promised land.
What was the quote? "A Communist has read Marx and Engels. An Anti-Communist has read and understood Marx and Engels." ?????
I don't know about you guys... but the 'promised land' where I grew up was the promise that if you are smart, work hard, have a bit of luck, do your part... etc. You can achieve anything you want in America. I don't remember promises of "Shut up and the Government will provide." Because that's what's being taught. And those teaching it, IMHO, are prepared to kill any number of people if they thought they could get away with it....
Let's not forget, there are a lot of global climate change crazies... teaching away in Universities and think-tanks... who have openly advocated exterminating 9/10ths of the worlds population... in order to save the planet... and have it run under the stewardship of a few intelligencia who 'get it' when it comes to a Utopian dream. And since I've long said that the whole 'climate debate' is socialism under another banner... it goes back to a clash of ideologies.... One that says "Live and let live... work hard... succeed... help others... rugged individualism is the natural human state and that will create progress and a brighter future... "
And another that says "Central control and submission is the only way to Utopia... and that the human condition is one of cowed herd mentality."
Well, ok... those are two valid possible human conditions. But let me ask you this... When those two political scenarios are actually playing out... in the real world.... which one has brought us flush toilets, medicine, electronics, transportation, moon landings and the like... and which system has resulted in Gulags, deaths of millions of 'untermenchen and wreckers" and misery... as people line up for toilet paper. Which of the two experiments... has proved the most successful?
And what documents.... have made it possible. Is it the Magna Carta, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? Or is it Das Kapital and Mein Kampf?
Happy Star Wars day....
Cheers,
Sirhr