A cause for civil war?

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  1. Battle3

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    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/06/a_cause_for_war.html

    For a republic to be worthy of the name, it must have certain features. Most obviously, political power must, in some meaningful sense, reside with the people and be expressed through their elected officials. Even at this most basic level, our country has a problem. To the extent that we are governed by an unelected bureaucracy we are no longer a republic. Unfortunately, the political disease that afflicts America runs far deeper than that. For power to reside with “the people” there must be a single, generally unified nation which can be identified as “the people.” This nation need not be racially, ethnically, or even religiously homogenous, but the overwhelming majority of its members do need to agree on some common set of interests and values. They need a common identity. That is what a nation is. American now contains at least two nations, and arguably many more. Democratic institutions like elections, intended to settle differences between fellow countrymen, of people who simply disagree on means or minor matters of policy -- cannot settle differences of national identity.........

    More to the point, elections staged between competing nations trapped under the authority of a single state -- nations so different in their ideals that each seeks the other’s subjugation or destruction -- such elections settle nothing. Any election that takes place under such conditions will inevitably be seen as illegitimate by the losing side. Trump, progressives say, is not their president -- and neither would Hillary ever have been ours......

    It is no longer possible for conservatives and progressives to coexist within a single state. Sooner or later, the emerging blood feud between our separate nations will overwhelm the superficial political game.

    The sooner people realize this is an untenable situation, the sooner it can be resolved.

    The question is how will it be resolved? The only peaceful solution is to greatly weaken the federal govt. and return to a states rights federalist approach.

    This should be agreeable to everyone. Conservatives were trod upon and ridiculed for the 8 years of obama. "progressives" are now suffering the same fate under Trump. Both sides should realize this zero sum winner-take-all game will not work.

    But will "progressives" abandon their drive to rule everyone and to impose "progressivism" on everyone? Will they accept states rights and allow states to operate as each state sees fit? If they do, there is a peaceful resolution.

    Or will "progressives" try to revolt and take power from conservatives by overthrowing Trump? If and when the progs regain control of the federal govt, will the progs use the govt to purge conservatives from the nation? If they take these approaches, will there be war?
     
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    I've been saying this for years, including in the last week, in this forum.

    This has happened because the Totalitarians do not respect our Constitution, or Federalism/States Rights, and have destroyed the notion of a united States.
     
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    Big time states rights guy, I am all for it.

    I agree though that it is a fairy tale at this point, the political atmosphere is simply getting worse and worse. I don't see a non violent end to this
     
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