The 19th century Prussian general Karl Von Clausewitz famously said: “War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.” or as we more often hear it, “War is but politics by different means.”
War is what generally happens when two (or more) sides get
to a point where they can no longer peacefully coexist with the current
circumstances. We’re there…
How does one know a civil war is coming? Have you been on a college campus lately?
2024 is an echo of 1968, the original Summer of Love. Today the ostensible catalyst for what we’re
seeing on campuses across the country is the Israeli “genocide” happening in
Gaza. We’re seeing a virtual replay of the
original “Summer of Love” where entitled students took over campuses while
feckless administration cowards fiddled while their schools figuratively burned. In ’68 the students were protesting the
Vietnam War (they were really protesting the draft, the war was just the
rallying point) and then as now, Columbia was the epicenter.
Spreading from Columbia across the country, that summer protests
raged and chats of “Hell no, we won’t go” and images of Black Power
fists were everywhere to be seen and heard on the nightly news. Today the news
and social media are filled with chants of “From
the river to the sea,” images of Palestinian flags, BLM signs and &
Antifa graffiti and anyone not wearing a keffiyeh being declared a “Zionist.”
The difference between 1968 and 2024 is that back then most
of the country disagreed with the protesters.
In November 1968 Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey in
the Electoral College 301 – 191. Add to
that the 46 electors that George Wallace took and the country voted 347 to 191
against the Democrats (57% vs 43% in the popular vote). And this was at a time when most Democrats
were strongly anti-Communist and being pro American was considered normal,
almost required.
Today we have a completely different landscape. In 2024 Democrats are virtually
indistinguishable from Communists and being pro American is seen as racist.
Sadly, all of those things are basically mainstream Democrat
policies in 2024. We see every single
one of them play out across the country in federal, state and local governments. From stultifying climate change regulations
to the housing of illegals to DEI diktats to the reimagining of police, there’s
virtually nothing that government does today that isn’t infused with the workings
of a leftist’s wet dream. And at the end
of the day, while some new incremental CAFE standard from Washington or a DEI
hire at the local university might not sound particularly onerous, in reality
they’re just more bars of the leftist policy prison being implemented around
the country.
Half of the American population have become anti-everything
America once stood for, and they’re actively leveraging the power of the government
to “fundamentally transform the United States of America” against everything
traditionally American. Given that the
other half has no interest in watching their country be destroyed, feel like
they have few viable tools with which to stop the destruction, and are told by
the government they’re the enemy, the country is sitting on a powder keg.
If this was the Roman Empire or 1945 Germany it might be
possible to split the nation in two where the east would go one direction and
the west another, but it’s not. What we’re faced with is an urban / rural
dichotomy where the population of cities are largely hardcore leftists and the
population of the suburbs and rural America are more traditionally patriotic.
While a clean split is simply not feasible, a continuation
of the current trajectory isn’t either.
Which is where these college protests come in. As they morph into fortified CHAZ like encampments
across the country, where the American
flag is replaced by the Palestinian flag or where their own violent “security”
staff keeps others at bay, the pressure will only ramp up on the feckless
university leaders to do something. But
of course, given that most are fellow travelers with the protesters, they’ll no
doubt drag their feet, which will only serve embolden the them.
Funded
by the modern incarnation of Satan himself, George Soros, the protests will
spill out beyond the universities, returning to bridges, highways, and other
choke points around the country. They’ll
be joined by LGTBQXYZ activists, environmental wackos as well as more Antifa
and BLM agitators.
Together they’ll try and bring the country to a halt. It won’t happen of course
as local police and the National Guard will be called out – often by reluctant,
sympathetic Democrat leaders – to restore some law and order.
But the lines will be drawn.
On the one side will be Americans who understand exactly how fortunate
we are, how difficult it is to create prosperity and how, while imperfect,
America is the greatest nation yet produced.
On the other side will be Americans who know little about history, spit
on their birthright and seek to turn the United States into Venezuela. At some
point the former will decide they've had enough and do what they need to do to
put a stop to it.
With all due respect to Von Clausewitz, I’d suggest politics
is a prelude to war. At least in this case. It’s not inevitable, but it is
likely. But… we could get lucky.
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