We are now seeing prominent public figures justify behavior that until quite recently would have been considered beyond the boundaries of acceptable political behavior. For example, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), a leader in the battle against Kavanaugh, refuses to condemn public harassment of senators opposing the confirmation. Such harassment of Republican senators and other public officials connected to President Trump has been going on for months. We have already seen numerous examples of cooperation between city and state officials in condoning and facilitating violence by the antifa. It’s a short step from that to refusing to condemn assassination attempts on public figures.
And a short step from that to Civil War II.
Occidental Observer
Lincoln’s Rhetoric on the Struggle Between Good and Evil: Relevance to the Present
Kevin MacDonald | retired professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach
The view that civil war is brewing in the US comes predominantly from the right, where many believe that the left is preparing a war against white people, and white males in particular. The perps? Non-whites, non-Christians, and liberal women.
See also MacDonald's Thinking about Civil War II (July 4, 2018):
As noted in a previous TOO article, by Cooper Sterling, “the Left’s irrational obsession with gun control goes beyond the latest mass shooting. It is endemic among the cosmopolitan literati, who loathe Middle America, to dwell on the risks associated with firearms while disregarding or minimizing the benefits of firearm ownership.” As noted there, Jews and Jewish organizations have led the campaign against gun ownership. In any case, if Civil War II were to break out in the near future—before the left can achieve its goal of abolishing the Second Amendment—there can be little question that the White/rural side would have an advantage both in terms of gun ownership and in being able to use a gun effectively.
However, civilians, no matter how well armed, are no match for a trained military equipped with the latest technology. Whose side would the military be on? Given that there are large percentages of non-Whites in the military, there would likely be conflict between different factions. Nevertheless, White males have a clear majority (60% overall), especially in the Marines and Air Force, and especially in the officer corps.
The view that civil war is brewing in the US comes predominantly from the right, where many believe that the left is preparing a war against white people, and white males in particular. The perps? Non-whites, non-Christians, and liberal women.
2 comments:
“Kevin B. MacDonald is an American psychologist. He is a retired professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach, best known for writings that characterize Jewish behavior as a "group evolutionary strategy". His work has received support from anti-Semitic and white supremacist groups”
McDonald is alt-right.... the neo Nazis are always thinking “civil war!”, etc...
The Occidental Observer article says that Republicans and Democrats are more ideologically divided than in the past.
And yet both Republicans and leading Democrats remain identical in every way that materially matters.
Both sides remain equally pro-war, pro-Israel, pro-Wall Street, pro-neoliberalism, pro-decriminalization of financial fraud, anti-Universal-Medicare, and anti-Russia.
When Democrats last controlled Congress (2007-2011) they pushed through the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which forced the US Postal Service to pre-fund future retiree health benefits 75 years into the future. That is, to fund retirement benefits for postal employees who haven’t even been born yet. This is a crushing burden that no other agency or company — public or private — is required to meet, or could survive. The mandate has drained $5.5 billion a year out of Postal Service funds, and accounts for more than 90 percent of its losses. [The US Postal Service delivers 30 percent of FedEx Ground packages, and 40 percent of all of Amazon’s shipments.]
Democrats did this in order to prepare the US Postal Service for privatization. This is neoliberalism. It is quintessentially Republican.
I appreciate that some people are amused by identity politics, and that they want to inflame the peasants’ bickering by crying, “Civil War!” However this is a variant of the Russian-gate hoax, which is designed to distract and divide the peasants as they are crushed by the rich.
Regarding this supposedly coming “civil war,” will it be a race war? A war of secession? Obviously it will not be the only kind of war that counts: a war on the rich and the bankers.
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