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THE CIVIL WAR IS HERE
The left doesn’t want to secede. It wants to rule.
March 27, 2017 Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
A civil war has begun.
This civil war is very different than the last one. There are no cannons or cavalry charges. The left doesn’t want to secede. It wants to rule. Political conflicts become civil wars when one side refuses to accept the existing authority. The left has rejected all forms of authority that it doesn’t control.
The left has rejected the outcome of the last two presidential elections won by Republicans. It has rejected the judicial authority of the Supreme Court when it decisions don’t accord with its agenda. It rejects the legislative authority of Congress when it is not dominated by the left.
It rejected the Constitution so long ago that it hardly bears mentioning.
It was for total unilateral executive authority under Obama. And now it’s for states unilaterally deciding what laws they will follow. (As long as that involves defying immigration laws under Trump, not following them under Obama.) It was for the sacrosanct authority of the Senate when it held the majority. Then it decried the Senate as an outmoded institution when the Republicans took it over.
It was for Obama defying the orders of Federal judges, no matter how well grounded in existing law, and it is for Federal judges overriding any order by Trump on any grounds whatsoever. It was for Obama penalizing whistleblowers, but now undermining the government from within has become “patriotic”.
There is no form of legal authority that the left accepts as a permanent institution. It only utilizes forms of authority selectively when it controls them. But when government officials refuse the orders of the duly elected government because their allegiance is to an ideology whose agenda is in conflict with the President and Congress, that’s not activism, protest, politics or civil disobedience; it’s treason.
After losing Congress, the left consolidated its authority in the White House. After losing the White House, the left shifted its center of authority to Federal judges and unelected government officials. Each defeat led the radicalized Democrats to relocate from more democratic to less democratic institutions.
This isn’t just hypocrisy. That’s a common political sin. Hypocrites maneuver within the system. The left has no allegiance to the system. It accepts no laws other than those dictated by its ideology.
Democrats have become radicalized by the left. This doesn’t just mean that they pursue all sorts of bad policies. It means that their first and foremost allegiance is to an ideology, not the Constitution, not our country or our system of government. All of those are only to be used as vehicles for their ideology.
That’s why compromise has become impossible.
Our system of government was designed to allow different groups to negotiate their differences. But those differences were supposed to be based around finding shared interests. The most profound of these shared interests was that of a common country based around certain civilizational values. The left has replaced these Founding ideas with radically different notions and principles. It has rejected the primary importance of the country. As a result it shares little in the way of interests or values.
Instead it has retreated to cultural urban and suburban enclaves where it has centralized tremendous amounts of power while disregarding the interests and values of most of the country. If it considers them at all, it is convinced that they will shortly disappear to be replaced by compliant immigrants and college indoctrinated leftists who will form a permanent demographic majority for its agenda.
But it couldn’t wait that long because it is animated by the conviction that enforcing its ideas is urgent and inevitable. And so it turned what had been a hidden transition into an open break.
In the hidden transition, its authority figures had hijacked the law and every political office they held to pursue their ideological agenda. The left had used its vast cultural power to manufacture a consensus that was slowly transitioning the country from American values to its values and agendas. The right had proven largely impotent in the face of a program which corrupted and subverted from within.
The left was enormously successful in this regard. It was so successful that it lost all sense of proportion and decided to be open about its views and to launch a political power struggle after losing an election.
The Democrats were no longer being slowly injected with leftist ideology. Instead the left openly took over and demanded allegiance to open borders, identity politics and environmental fanaticism. The exodus of voters wiped out the Democrats across much of what the left deemed flyover country.
The left responded to democratic defeats by retreating deeper into undemocratic institutions, whether it was the bureaucracy or the corporate media, while doubling down on its political radicalism. It is now openly defying the outcome of a national election using a coalition of bureaucrats, corporations, unelected officials, celebrities and reporters that are based out of its cultural and political enclaves.
It has responded to a lost election by constructing sanctuary cities and states thereby turning a cultural and ideological secession into a legal secession. But while secessionists want to be left alone authoritarians want everyone to follow their laws. The left is an authoritarian movement that wants total compliance with its dictates with severe punishments for those who disobey.
The left describes its actions as principled. But more accurately they are ideological. Officials at various levels of government have rejected the authority of the President of the United States, of Congress and of the Constitution because those are at odds with their radical ideology. Judges have cloaked this rejection in law. Mayors and governors are not even pretending that their actions are lawful.
The choices of this civil war are painfully clear.
We can have a system of government based around the Constitution with democratically elected representatives. Or we can have one based on the ideological principles of the left in which all laws and processes, including elections and the Constitution, are fig leaves for enforcing social justice.
But we cannot have both.
Some civil wars happen when a political conflict can’t be resolved at the political level. The really bad ones happen when an irresolvable political conflict combines with an irresolvable cultural conflict.
That is what we have now.
The left has made it clear that it will not accept the lawful authority of our system of government. It will not accept the outcome of elections. It will not accept these things because they are at odds with its ideology and because they represent the will of large portions of the country whom they despise.
The question is what comes next.
The last time around growing tensions began to explode in violent confrontations between extremists on both sides. These extremists were lauded by moderates who mainstreamed their views. The first Republican president was elected and rejected. The political tensions led to conflict and then civil war.
The left doesn’t believe in secession. It’s an authoritarian political movement that has lost democratic authority. There is now a political power struggle underway between the democratically elected officials and the undemocratic machinery of government aided by a handful of judges and local elected officials.
What this really means is that there are two competing governments; the legal government and a treasonous anti-government of the left. If this political conflict progresses, agencies and individuals at every level of government will be asked to demonstrate their allegiance to these two competing governments. And that can swiftly and explosively transform into an actual civil war.
There is no sign that the left understands or is troubled by the implications of the conflict it has initiated. And there are few signs that Democrats properly understand the dangerous road that the radical left is drawing them toward. The left assumes that the winners of a democratic election will back down rather than stand on their authority. It is unprepared for the possibility that democracy won’t die in darkness.
Civil wars end when one side is forced to accept the authority of the other. The left expects everyone to accept its ideological authority. Conservatives expect the left to accept Constitutional authority. The conflict is still political and cultural. It’s being fought in the media and within the government. But if neither side backs down, then it will go beyond words as both sides give contradictory orders.
The left is a treasonous movement. The Democrats became a treasonous organization when they fell under the sway of a movement that rejects our system of government, its laws and its elections. Now their treason is coming to a head. They are engaged in a struggle for power against the government. That’s not protest. It’s not activism. The old treason of the sixties has come of age. A civil war has begun.
This is a primal conflict between a totalitarian system and a democratic system. Its outcome will determine whether we will be a free nation or a nation of slaves.
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Columnist Dennis Prager stated:
"Left-wing thugs engage in violence and threats of violence with utter impunity. They shut down speakers at colleges; block highways, bridges and airport terminals; take over college buildings and offices; occupy state capitals; and terrorize individuals at their homes.
In order to understand why more violence may be coming, it is essential to understand that left-wing mobs are almost never stopped, arrested or punished. Colleges do nothing to stop them, and civil authorities do nothing to stop them on campuses or anywhere else. Police are reduced to spectators as they watch left-wing gangs loot stores, smash business and car windows, and even take over state capitals (as in Madison, Wisconsin).
It’s beginning to dawn on many Americans that mayors, police chiefs and college presidents have no interest in stopping this violence. Left-wing officials sympathize with the lawbreakers, and the police, who rarely sympathize with thugs of any ideology, are ordered to do nothing by emasculated police chiefs.
Consequently, given the abdication by all these authorities of their role to protect the public, some members of the public will inevitably decide that they will protect themselves and others.
This ability of the left to get away with violence is one of the gravest threats to American society in its modern history. Since the Civil War, I can think of only two comparable eruptions of mob violence that authorities allowed. One was when white mobs lynched blacks. The other was the rioting by blacks, such as the Los Angeles riots 25 years ago, and the recent riots in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland."
With Obama not being able to - The Keystone Petroleum Pipeline and other pipelines that were stopped by Executive Fiat have been green-lighted, getting crude petroleum oils off of the nations railroads and back into an environmentally friendly pipeline transport.
- The EPA's war on Coal? It's Over. Although Coal eventually will be replaced by cleaner burning Natural Gas (Methane), it will be Economics that cause the change over, not an Administrative Fiat, by an Executive Branch bureaucracy that is unaccountable to the general public. Older power plants, that were in some cases over 100 years old, were forced to close. But these plants couldn't have been upgraded to meet the new MAPS emissions standards in an economic manner.
- Solar and Wind Power Renewable Energy will be forced to become Economically Viable or it will remain a "fringe energy source."
- Obamacare is dying a slow painful death, as more and more insurers come to grips with the fact that it's a money losing proposition.
- The unvoiced directives NOT TO ENFORCE illegal immigration at our borders is over. The border is now being policed.
- US support for the Paris Climate Change agreement? Dead on Arrival, with President Trump pulling the US out of a scheme to divert US tax payer dollars to competitors, killing American Jobs.
- The Trans-Pacific (Trade) Partnership, which had the great potential to move still more manufacturing jobs away from America, further decimating what once was the middle class? Trump wisely withdrew ALL SUPPORT of the US into this job killing deal, set up by the Obama Administration.
- Environmental Protection Agency Waters of the US ruling? If it hasn't been killed yet, it's being killed off as you read this blog post.
- Supreme Court Justices? Neil Gorsuch was nominated and Confirmed a conservative, using the Reid Rule, which Democrats used to eliminate the filibuster from the minority party. Additionally, Trump has appointed and gotten more Appellate Court Judges approved by Congress than even the great Conservative President Ronald Reagan did.
Dilbert cartoon creator, Scott Adams, best describes what's happening politically as two movies on one screen, where the filters which we have (how we look at things due to our individual preferences and prejudices) are coloring what we see. People who voted for Trump or at least support him see that he's done nothing wrong, while people who voted or supported the losing candidate, Hilary Rodham Clinton, see pure evil and prima fascia evidence that Trump has committed a crime, for which he must be impeached.
What we have here are 2 separate, irreconcilable view points; a schism that cannot be repaired. This a Civil War, because one group has chosen to violate the laws made by a Representative Republic
So what do I mean by "It's the End of the World?" I mean the civilized world. So in making this claim, we need the definition of Civilized (we'll also include Civilization and Civil to make these points). Here are the definitions from Merriam-Webster.com:
Definition of civil
1 a : of or relating to citizens <civil duties>
b : of or relating to the state or its citizenry <civil strife>
2 a : civilized <civil society>
b : adequate in courtesy and politeness : mannerly <a civil question> <It was hard to be civil when I felt so angry.>
3 a : of, relating to, or based on civil law
b : relating to private rights and to remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings : established by law <civil freedoms>
4: of, relating to, or involving the general public, their activities, needs, or ways, or civic affairs as distinguished from special (as military or religious) affairs <got married in a civil ceremony>
5: of time : based on the mean sun and legally recognized for use in ordinary affairs <the civil calendar>
Definition of civilize
civilized; civilizing
transitive verb
1: to cause to develop out of a primitive state; especially : to bring to a technically advanced and rationally ordered stage of cultural development
2 a : educate, refine
b : socialize 1
intransitive verb : to acquire the customs and amenities of a civil community
Definition of civilization
1 a : a relatively high level of cultural and technological development; specifically : the stage of cultural development at which writing and the keeping of written records is attained
b : the culture characteristic of a particular time or place <the impact of European civilization on the lands they colonized>
2: the process of becoming civilized <civilization is a slow process with many failures and setbacks>
3 a : refinement of thought, manners, or taste <exhibiting a high level of civilization
b : a situation of urban comfort <Our African safari was quite interesting, but it was great to get back to civilization.>
civilizational play \-shnəl, -shə-nəl\ adjective
The Left has become anything but civil and are starting to get violent
A man who obviously was "radicalized" to the point of taking action for "The Resistance (to Trump and to and against a lesser extent, the Republican Party)," actually attempted to assassinate some Republican members of the House of Representatives.
As Republican House members were practicing for a charity baseball game against the Democrat Party team, a man came up and asked who was practicing? After learning that it was the Republican Party team, the man took out a rifle and started shooting, wounding Steve Scalise, the Republican (Majority) House Whip among others. There were children in the dug out during this shooting, but none were hurt. Representative Scalise, because of his position, had a contingent of US Capitol Police with him, to keep him safe. They fired back at the gunman with their hand guns, striking and killing him, but not before he wounded several people.
(What's really Bad Ass here is that the Capitol Police Officers assigned to protect the House Majority Whip went HEAD-TO-HEAD using hand guns against an assailant with a rifle, putting their lives in mortal danger, killing the idiot with the rifle.
It is my hope that President Trump has honored their bravery and service in a public ceremony.)
And Paul Ryan, A Libertarian Senator, who is registered as a Republican, was viciously attacked by his Liberal Democrat neighbor, breaking some of his ribs, although after the fact, the neighbor claimed that it was a dispute over the way Paul kept his yard.
With that being said, we are in a Civil War that just got violent. It's time to respond with LEGAL FORCE against those who would foment revolution against the Constitution of the US and the will of the VOTERS in the last election.
The longer the (legally elected) government allows this to happen, the more difficult and over the top the response to quell. While the resistance was planned for a day of rage on November 4th, 2017. At best, it was a failure and basically did not happen.
The Resistance will keep protesting and keep breaking the law . Those who demand resistance MUST PAY A LEGAL PRICE FOR ANY OF THEIR UNLAWFUL OR TREASONIST ACTIONS.
Maybe we should start with the following proposals:
- The Rule of Law shall prevail in ALL circumstances.
- We MUST END SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT of the LAW. If we are all Equal Under the Law, Selective enforcement, whether by Jurisdiction or Individual MUST STOP.
- The 2017 Presidential Election was won by Donald Trump, who won the most Electoral Votes. Anything that Hillary Clinton has done/is doing (e.g. trying to bully Electors to change their votes, leading the "Not My President" and the "Resistance" movements to delegitimatize the election, foment revolution and overturn the will of the American people - in effect, asking others to do traitorous acts and accept full responsibility and consequences that she is too chicken-shit to do herself, trying to end the Electoral College system of choosing the president, so that large Democrat States - e.g. California, Illinois and New York - can have a greater proportion of the vote and change future elections toward the Democrat Party) is at best poor sportsmanship that SHOULD DISQUALIFY her from running for office and at worst TREASON that must be swiftly and surely punished
- Those accused must be considered INNOCENT, UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. The Media's Presumption of Guilt or Innocence MUST STOP NOW. Those accused must be tried in a court of law, not in by the Media, in the Court of Public Opinion, where a story, shaped by an Editor taints the opinions of citizens before a trial by jury can begin.
- If an investigation and trial Finds that any legal action (e.g. the Russian Collusion Investigation) was unfounded and frivolous, that the instigator should pay for ALL costs of the trial.
A 2nd Civil War in the United States should be unthinkable. War is never pretty as people die and are maimed, and property is stolen, desecrated or destroyed. More importantly, old hatreds are kept fresh for generations as the winning side "Lord's it over" the losing side (e.g. ALL SOUTHERNERS are accused of being racists, Neo-confederates and had ancestors that owned slaves and treated them poorly).
However, the longer those who would foment Resistance, Insurrection and Revolution are allowed to continue without consequence, the closer we come to that war. Especially, disturbing are California's actions, nullifying FEDERAL LAWS, to provoke action (either the Federal Government's ignoring the Nullification or Inciting a Federal take over of that government, whether by legal court order or with Troops).
Kurt Schllicter has written an excellent column on the possibility of the 2nd Civil War. It should be a warning to any of the leftists who are willing to break the law, not considering the consequences.
Will a civil war occur? No one knows. Will the US Split? Quite possibly, but it would never be amicable. Much like Brexit, this is almost a religious litmus test: You're on one side or the other, losing friends because of your strongly held core beliefs.
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