Our (Un)Civil War Escalates Towards The Real Thing
Michael Rectenwald — Lew Rockwell.com Oct 6, 2020
Armed black militia on the march in Georgia. Click to enlarge
Nearly two thirds of Americans believe the US is on course for civil war. One third now support political violence. The first Civil War’s death toll won’t be beaten, but the second’s nation-destroying potential will be unequalled.
The American left and right no longer inhabit a common moral universe. In fact, that imagined universe does not exist. The old, cherished political notions no longer apply, if they ever did. Not only are the terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ complete misnomers under the current configuration, but the players are not as they seem, or as they are made out to seem.
All-black NFAC militia members march on Lafayette in armed rally pic.twitter.com/gHJNUHWwvR
— RT (@RT_com) October 4, 2020
First, Trump is hardly the stereotypical right-wing despot that the ‘resistance’ makes him out to be, his rough demeanor and coarse rhetoric notwithstanding. At the same time, the Democrats are hardly the vaunted champions of the ‘working class’ as imagined under the old dispensation. Instead, the resistance to Trump is actually led by an entrenched political establishment, although their supporters apparently remain unimpressed by this minor detail.
Take a look at this ironic and unlikely political alignment. It should go a long way toward understanding the perturbations throwing the nation into convulsions. The resistance includes the Democratic Party machine, the loyal Democratic Party voters, the ‘never-Trumpers’ among the Republican establishment, the permanent bureaucracy or ‘deep state’, the riotous Antifa and Black Lives Matter foot soldiers, and, but for a few isolated and dwindling islands, the entirety of the mainstream media. Given its uncontested hegemony, this establishment-backed resistance inhabits a parallel universe of its own making and projects a fabricated simulacrum as reality.
The resistance establishment controls the official narrative, which includes a few prominent elements: the tropes that Trump is an inveterate liar, a huckster profiting from his incumbency, and a criminal who is committing unspeakable (and undiscoverable) crimes against the nation and humanity at large. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the Speaker of the House, went so far as to call Trump, the sitting president, an “enemy of the state.” This establishment resistance routinely declares Trump a dictator. It now asserts as an incontrovertible article of faith that he will refuse to vacate the White House should he lose the upcoming election.
The death of civility
Despite its own chicanery and possible criminality, the resistance establishment is so sure that its success is guaranteed that Hillary Clinton boldly urged Joe Biden not to concede the election under any circumstances. Rumors have even been floated that a contingent of military generals are prepared to remove Trump from the presidential domicile, if or when it comes to that. And now, since Trump contracted the coronavirus, Democratic Party leaders, a frothing media, and ardent party supporters have been unable to contain their glee at the prospect of his early demise.
As an indication that ‘civility’ is a thing of the past, one may point to the recent spate of tweets by Trump haters openly wishing for his death by Covid. Such posts became so prevalent and glaring that Twitter was forced to introduce a new policy declaring that any tweets wishing for the death of a politician would be removed. Conspicuously missing was any mention of even temporarily banning tweeters who infringe the policy. Such banning is routine for pro-Trump posters – and for far lesser infractions – if they are not contrived by the tech giant in the first place.
Meanwhile, Trump supporters are routinely caricatured as a reactionary and irredeemably racist band of blind loyalists, including a significant contingent of white supremacists willing and already engaging in acts of racist violence. Even as Antifa and Black Lives Matter rampage and riot, leaving rubble in their wake, rightwing extremists, we are told, are the greatest domestic threat to national tranquility.
A very American coup?
At the same time, Trump Republicans and their few allies in an otherwise overwhelmingly Democrat-favored corporate media point to a growing body of evidence that a coup has been ongoing since before Trump assumed power. The director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, recently alleged in a letter published by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), just hours before the first (and perhaps last) presidential debate, that Hillary Clinton orchestrated “a campaign plan to stir up a scandal” – by linking Trump to Russia in 2016. The letter also claims that then-President Barack Obama knew about her intent and role in the contrived affair and did nothing to prevent his former secretary of state from ordering up the concoction.
While the resistance hurls an endless series of increasingly outrageous accusations and epithets at Trump, pro-Trump forces in the state nevertheless continue to pile up dirt on the Democrats and their assets in the permanent bureaucracy. For example, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigations into the ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ investigation of the Trump team’s supposed collusion with Russia has revealed evidence that a Russian asset, suspected by the CIA of being a spy, was the underlying source for the “dirty dossier” that prompted the FBI investigation. The committee has pointed to evidence that former FBI Director James Comey knew the dossier was unsubstantiated garbage peddled by a gutter-sniping mercenary hack when he or his staff members submitted FISA applications.
Added to this, the Department of Justice has since reported that more than two dozen phones belonging to members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team were “accidentally” wiped clean of data before the Justice Department’s inspector general could comb them for records.
Ironically, the Senate Judiciary Committee has also asserted that the son of former VP and current presidential candidate Joe Biden, namely Hunter Biden, actually engaged in a kind of ‘Russian collusion’ – when he received a whopping 3.5 million dollars from Elena Baturina, the wife of the corrupt former mayor of Moscow. Hunter Biden then allegedly funneled a part of these funds into human trafficking and prostitution rings. This alleged swindle, gained on the basis of his father’s influence peddling, would be added to the vast sums reportedly collected from corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine, China, and elsewhere.
All of these claims are either scoffed at and deemed conspiracies prima facie, or simply memory-holed by a complicit press. Nothing, it appears, will ever come of any of them.
Meanwhile, the vastly outflanked pro-Trump camp maintains that the attempted coup extends to the upcoming presidential election. Fears are escalating that the Democratic Party’s election machinery has already been set in motion, harvesting fraudulent or otherwise invalid mail-in ballots in favor of Biden. These deep misgivings are compounded by early reports of dumped and discarded ballots for Trump.
Anarchy in the USA
Among the ground forces in both camps, some informed and some merely inflamed by baseless rhetoric, hostility has reached fever pitch. According to Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service, 83 percent of Americans believe that behavior once considered unacceptable is now deemed acceptable in the political sphere. Apparently, this behavior includes violence and threats of violence. Other studies found that 61 percent Americans polled believe the country is headed inexorably towards civil war. Other reports indicate that a nearly equal number of Democrats and Republicans (33 percent and 34 percent, respectively) believe that violence will be justified if their side loses the impending presidential election, up from just eight percent on both sides who believed that three years ago.
The ‘left’ justifies its campaign of violence given the supposedly disproportionate unjustified police violence against blacks. The ‘right’ justifies its pondered response as necessary self-defense and defense of the nation after months of almost unhampered rampages.
Surging gun sales across the country suggest that many Americans fear continued and increasing conflict. First-time gun and ammunition purchases have reached an all-time high. One might reasonably suppose that potential counter measures from pro-Trump ground forces are being seriously contemplated. The prospect of a protracted election controversy has both camps suggesting that they’re booted up and ready for action. Any state response to such action, on the other hand, remains unclear. Who, after all, will have the authority to direct state police forces if Democrats and their supporters claim that Trump’s ‘occupation’ of the White House is illegitimate?
Pro-Trump pundits warn that the violence coming from ‘leftists’ since May has only been a warm-up act for November 3 and beyond. There are so many related and somewhat disparate theories being floated that one’s head is left spinning. But suffice to say, anyone the least bit cognizant of the state of affairs is bracing for a massive confrontation.
‘Things fall apart’
The current and looming strife is demoralizing in the extreme, especially given the utterly incommensurable accounts held by the opposing sides. It is especially alarming to me, living as I do in urban Pennsylvania – a ‘swing state’ with the potential to be a center of a disputed election result that looks to tip over into open mortal combat. I plan on voting in the early morning, then driving immediately to another, probably uncontested, state.
The alarming state of affairs has led me to revisit a harrowing poem by William Butler Yeats, ‘The Second Coming’. The first stanza captures the temper and pitch of the moment so well that I quote in its entirety:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
I met my first grandchild for the first time the other day. And I wept with trepidation for his future.
This article first appeared in RT.
You all whine about Australia and its great leader Dan, but lets face it, if those jungle bunnies had tried something like that here in Victoria, they would be crock meat now, we don’t give a crap about black lives, and we would never allow sniveling jungle bunnies to intimidate us.
Dan would see to that, its part of his plan.
There is a big problem with this analysis. As per the recent article about how the sheeple precieve and trust the fake news media, the sheeple’s opinions are worth that much when they have almost no understanding of how fake news stories are created.
It is the same here. A tiny, very tiny number of sheeple are in the various deep state-controlled movements. The fake news magnifies the riots, so the sheeple adopt new opinions, express new views on a fake reality.
Sure, the US is bankrupt, sure, they can keep printing Monopoly Money & they can & soon will be handing out free money to the US sheeple. They have already made some free helicopter money drops. It is very difficult to predict/guess what will happen after the US election & the reason why this is so hard is that we are ‘literally’ (pun intended) beyond the realms of fiction. 9/11 would never pass the Hollywood script test. Before 2016, a presidential character like Donald Trump would never pass a Hollywood audition.
And you can make similar comparisons to Boris Johnson & other hafwit members of the regime. We are now at the point where Conservative pressitutes are mocking their own idols.
They look like ISIS and I’d say the US elite has brought their concept back to the US mainland to be used against Americans. There is no way such a grassroots organisation would be tolerated and left unchallenged on US soil. It would be put down by overwhelming force and the fact it hasn’t been indicates it’s not a grassroots army but a tool of the elite.
The Jewish controlled media keeps pushing the George Floyd/Black Lives Matter narrative to further demonize White people and to further divide the country.
The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015. The Post defines “unarmed” broadly to include such cases as a suspect in Newark, N.J., who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase.
In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883
Elite Jewish extremists via their absurd narrative “White is a synonym for racist” want to destroy the power of White people and destroy the cohesiveness of the country to bring in the Jewish controlled One World Government.
I took my kids out of school as they were teaching them homosexuality
my yougest is just 7
My old property agent put homosexuals in and they did not pay rent for 6 months before i could get them out, and they had sex parties with underage boys and before they left they shit every where cooking pots bedclothes curtains carpets, the smell was sickening, the police took no action but said they often do that when they leave a place its called ” shitting up”
the clean up cost £14.000 No way will i ever allow homosexuals into my properties again
It was a crazy thing for the British government to start people trafficking them in back in 1948 they have been a problem ever since
its time we admitted it has not worked and ship them back home
Well, I hate to have to state the obvious but the USA is currently AT civil war, whether some people like to accept it or not. When you have mass gangs of Antifa and BLM marching through cities, burning, looting, assaulting and murdering, for the most part white people and their business, not only is this clearly racism, but it’s civilian war.
If you look up the definition of civil war you’ll find that it states:
“A civil war, also known as an intrastate war in polemology,[1] is a war between organized groups within the same state or country. The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region or to change government policies.[2] The term is a calque of Latin bellum civile which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.”
Source: Jewpedia (sorry).
So armed with the above, what has happened in Seattle? Was the creation of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone not controlling a ‘region’ of the United States of America, under their own law?
The same can also be said for places in Europe, whose immigrant populations have created ‘No Go’ zones within many cities. Europe is also at civil war. The western civilization is at civil war.
larry barnes,
There was nothing crazy about the letting in of immigrants after WW2. It was completely planned, long before hand, as was WW2 and WW1. Go back to the Fabian Society and you’ll find that it was they (created by Jews) who brought about the Suffragette movement (feminism). Roll onto the 60’s and the birth rate starts to drop through women choosing careers over family and abortions took off. Again, this was planned as it allowed the government to them promote their rhetoric of “British people are not having enough children so we need to flood the country of immigrants to pay for pensions and pick the crops”. And of course, previously they’d demonized the British people, by saying that black people did the jobs white people wouldn’t. Of course, a blatant lie, but when told over and over it became a truth.
Nothing that has happened in the USA, the UK, Europe and the rest of this world happens by chance. It’s all planned and the sooner people realise this the better for everyone, as they’ll begin to realise that very bad people are in charge that have to be removed from power.
Uniforms and guns given out to stage unrest and a feeling of instability where the 90% of decent people the hunger for law and order. Always seems to occur right around election time in the US.
If there was a national insurrection against government & establishment mass deceptions, chronic fake news and propaganda, mass terrorist psyops like the 9/11 and the Plandemic, brainwashing through the MSM, and cultural Marxism in our educational systems, I would join right now. However, first we have to decide upon what is seriously wrong and evil and destroying everything we value in order to eradicate it, either by insurrection, revolution, or some form of real democracy which obviously does not exist anymore .
Make your own mind up.
Non Fiction or Fiction? YOU MAKE THE CALL!!!!!
They’re all gonna walk after the Transition Integrity Program (TIP) and its operatives overthrow the Trump Administration even after being legally re-elected in a landslide. (Look up TIP if you still can). And when they settle back into the office they thought was in the bag for the hag in the pantsuit in 2016………
1. Be prepared to be arrested, disappeared or sent to the gulag…
2. Or prepare to resist with extreme prejudice when the democrat/Marxists and their agents pay you a visit for having even looked at TIP……
3. Or for having posted remarks disparaging to present and former democratic public office holders, groups like the DNC, BLM and ANTIFA.
4. Oh, if they do arrive at your door…..do they have a vaccine for YOU!…and you WILL take it…or…see #1 or #2.
Pssst. Isn’t this already obvious?
VOTE FOR ABAD! Who’s ABAD? Anybody But A Democrat! YOU CAN DO THIS. YOU DON’T NEED THEM. MANY OF YOU HAVE VOTED DEMOCRAT FOR DECADES.
If you are a Black American, just where has voting democratic gotten you? Really? Any reasoned person so longing for a “middle ground as a platform for debating the issues” will be trampled upon as if they wore MAGA hats in Portland. Marxists do not care about your feelings.
Elect Democrats, become China. It’s that simple.
All those plotters and insurrectionists who should already be in prison for treason or executed for their roles in the wanton attempted destruction of this presidency, like him or not, and are in on this TIP plan, have been taking names, with the able assistance of Silicon Valley.
Right now, all this BS is the democrat attempt to run out the clock on prosecution of people in the State Dept., DNC, FBI, CIA, DHS, DOJ, et.al., for sedition and treason. Many are doing this not recognizing that many of these actors themselves are useful idiots for the NWO, Trilateralists, soulless billionaire titans of industry. They, too, will eventually become…”His/Her name was……..”
The statute of limitations ends with an uncontested Democrat election victory. In that very unlikely event…
The coming pre-election rioting and destruction will pale in comparison to what comes after a Trump election victory. Your Holiday Season HAS BEEN CANCELLED! Consider, if you will….
The death of the President and possibly his family and loyal members of his administration either by disease (from deliberate exposure), accident (accidentally on purpose) or worse (think JFK). The result will be Civil War, like it or not.
Don’t think for a minute that the democrat party and deep state actors with them are unwilling to do this. Meet the new Stalins, Hitlers, Maos, Pol Pots, Israeli Prime Ministers…pick any, Osama bin-Laden. They are aficionados. To deliberately lay waste to the country, they should be viewed as nothing less.
From whom will the military take their orders, even if Trump is re-elected? Will there be dissension within the ranks? Will the military drift left or right? I know what I hope but I just don’t know.
In fact, the longer it takes, the more National chaos, violence, hunger, suffering and desperation there will be. Actually, what happened in the former Yugoslavia is a realistic possible outcome.
In fact, all these SOBs will all be back comfortably in familiar jobs,if they are allowed to be successful. These people from the Left want rights only for themselves and their social strata. To them, the common man is, just, well….common and of no real value anyway.
Like the CCP who takes national pride in their epic historical bloodletting, losing 25 to 50 million here in a Country of, allegedly, 350 million is a desired outcome not a tragedy to our Marxists.
TIP is THE bipartisan overthrow of the government, and a violent revolution could ensue.
But if you already sense this, you can help re-elect Trump by a very substantial and incontestable margin. Oh, it WILL be contested.
If the Country is lucky, he will then unleash the fury that deserves to be applied to every person who took part in the closest we have come to a successful coup d’ etat on this soil since pre-revolutionary war days.
I say that war only because the democrats are getting ample help from actors outside the US, some who call themselves our Allies.
THINK! Research the Transition Integrity Project. We think bipartisanship would be Nirvana nowadays. This is anything but Nirvana.
AND REALLY, DO YOU REALLY WANT BIDEN, a sick old man, HARRIS OR PELOSI TO BE YOUR PRESIDENT, EVEN FOR A MONTH? And believe me, there are even worse options from the left. We might as well cancel ALL future elections if the democrats take the White House by losing the election or by brute force.
So…^ for fiction….v for non-fiction.
People who dread division and conflict are just frightened of their likely defeat. “Peace” means you are letting the rats run riot.
If racism were bad for you the Jews would not be spoon-feeding it to wognog all day. They are just lucky that “racist” rhymes with “rapist” for the subliminal message.
If Trump really were a dictator, as alleged by the idiot Jew-controlled “left”, then treasonous hags and harpies like Pelosi and Clinton would have been coated in tar & feathers and launched out of giant catapults into the sea by now. Of course, Trump is just another controlled ass puppet, albeit with a loose mouth and an even looser brain, … a circus side-show clown, and certainly no threat to the true powers that be.
Well, on election day in Nov here in the US, I plan to have breakfast and vote very early. Then, I will go home and find a good news outlet online (I do not watch TV) and watch the shooting start.