{"id":214633,"date":"2020-10-07T05:31:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T05:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214633"},"modified":"2020-10-12T07:17:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:17:50","slug":"america-is-in-throes-of-unrest-unlike-any-in-our-244-year-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214633","title":{"rendered":"America Is in Throes Of Unrest Unlike Any in Our 244-Year History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Our (Un)Civil War Escalates Towards The Real Thing<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Michael Rectenwald &#8212; Lew Rockwell.com Oct 6, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_209909\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/black-militia-georgia-demands-reparations-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209909\" class=\"wp-image-209909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/black-militia-georgia-demands-reparations-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/black-militia-georgia-demands-reparations-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/black-militia-georgia-demands-reparations-1-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-209909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armed black militia on the march in Georgia. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Nearly two thirds of Americans believe the US is on course for civil war. One third now support political violence. The first Civil War\u2019s death toll won\u2019t be beaten, but the second\u2019s nation-destroying potential will be unequalled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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 \u2018<em>left<\/em>\u2019 and \u2018<em>right<\/em>\u2019 complete misnomers under the current configuration, but the players are not as they seem, or as they are made out to seem.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All-black NFAC militia members march on Lafayette in armed rally <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gHJNUHWwvR\">pic.twitter.com\/gHJNUHWwvR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RT (@RT_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\/status\/1312799646205370373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">First, Trump is hardly the stereotypical right-wing despot that the \u2018resistance\u2019 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 \u2018working class\u2019 as imagined under the old dispensation. Instead, the resistance to Trump is actually led by an entrenched political\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgov.org\/Inauguration-Trump-and-Early-Opposition-Trumpism\">establishment<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, although their supporters apparently remain unimpressed by this minor detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Take a look at this ironic and unlikely political alignment. It should go a long way toward understanding the perturbations throwing the nation into\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/02\/new-york-times-blasted-for-suggesting-trump-might-not-stay-on-ballot\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>convulsion<\/strong><\/span>s<\/a>. The resistance includes the Democratic Party machine, the loyal Democratic Party voters, the\u00a0<em>\u2018<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/lincoln-project-wont-pull-anti-trump-ads-vows-defeat-trumpism-after-presidents-covid-diagnosis-1536155\">never-Trumpers<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u2019\u00a0<\/em>among the Republican establishment, the permanent bureaucracy or \u2018deep state\u2019, 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\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/legitgov\/status\/1312649539900321792\">inhabits<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0a parallel universe of its own making and projects a fabricated simulacrum as reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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 \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/1380148\/nancy-pelosi-trump-enemy-state-defend-constitution\/\">enemy of the state<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span>.\u201d This establishment resistance routinely declares Trump a dictator. It now asserts as an incontrovertible article of faith that he will refuse to vacate the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2020\/09\/24\/donald-trump-hints-he-wont-leave-white-house-quietly-if-he-loses-election-13320833\/\">White House<\/a>\u00a0should he lose the upcoming election.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The death of civility<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/513527-hillary-clinton-biden-should-not-concede-under-any-circumstances\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>circumstances<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Rumors have even been floated that a contingent of military generals are prepared to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/03\/sara-jacobs-the-generals-would-help-remove-trump-if-he-loses-wont-leave\/\">remove<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Trump from the presidential domicile, if or when it comes to that. And now, since Trump\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2020\/10\/02\/president-trump-coronavirus\/\">contracted<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0the 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As an indication that \u2018<em>civility<\/em>\u2019 is a thing of the past, one may point to the recent spate of tweets by Trump haters openly wishing for his<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robbystarbuck\/status\/1311936303416709121\">death<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0by Covid. Such posts became so prevalent and glaring that Twitter was forced to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/twitter-says-it-will-suspend-users-publicly-wish-trumps-death-2020-10\">introduce<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0a new\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterComms\/status\/1312167835783708672\">policy<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>declaring that any tweets wishing for the death of a politician would be removed. Conspicuously missing was any mention of even temporarily banning\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawenforcementtoday.com\/verified-users-on-twitter-call-for-death-of-trump-not-suspended\/\">tweeters<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>who infringe the policy. Such banning is routine for pro-Trump posters \u2013 and for far lesser infractions \u2013 if they are not contrived by the tech giant in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A very American coup?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/press\/rep\/releases\/chairman-graham-releases-information-from-dni-ratcliffe-on-fbis-handling-of-crossfire-hurricane\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>before<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0Trump assumed power. The director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, recently alleged in a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/09-29-20_Letter%20to%20Sen.%20Graham_Declassification%20of%20FBI's%20Crossfire%20Hurricane%20Investigations_20-00912_U_SIGNED-FINAL.pdf\">letter<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0published by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), just hours before the first (and perhaps last) presidential debate, that Hillary Clinton orchestrated \u201c<em><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/29\/cia-told-obama-of-claim-clinton-conjured-trump-russia-scandal-spy-chief\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>a campaign plan to stir up a scandal<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>\u201d \u2013 by linking Trump to Russia in 2016. The letter also claims that\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/29\/cia-told-obama-of-claim-clinton-conjured-trump-russia-scandal-spy-chief\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>then-President<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0Barack 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/09\/24\/trump-was-right-explosive-new-fbi-texts-detail-internal-furor-over-handling-of-crossfire-hurricane-investigation\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>For example<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, the Senate Judiciary Committee\u2019s\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/comey-testimony-senate-judiciary-committee-today-live-2020-09-30\/\">investigations<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0into the \u2018<em><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/crossfire-hurricane\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Crossfire Hurricane<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>\u2019 investigation of the Trump team\u2019s supposed collusion with Russia has revealed evidence that a\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/steele-dossier-source-suspected-russian-spy-andrew-mccarthy\">Russian asset<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, suspected by the CIA of being a spy, was the underlying source for the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/09\/steeles-dossier-source-was-a-suspected-russian-spy\/\">\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>dirty dossier<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/a>\u00a0that prompted the FBI investigation. The committee has pointed to evidence that former FBI Director James Comey knew the dossier was unsubstantiated\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/420408-comeys-confession-dossier-not-verified-before-or-after-fisa-warrant\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>garbage<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0peddled by a gutter-sniping mercenary hack when he or his staff members submitted FISA applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Added to this, the Department of Justice has since reported that more than two dozen phones belonging to members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s team were \u201c<em>accidentally<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/at-least-27-phones-from-special-counsels-office-were-wiped-before-doj-inspector-general-could-review-them\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>wiped<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0clean of data before the Justice Department\u2019s inspector general could comb them for records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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 \u2018Russian collusion\u2019 \u2013 when he\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/23\/hunter-biden-received-3-5m-from-russian-billionaire-report\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>received<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0a whopping 3.5 million dollars from Elena Baturina, the wife of the corrupt former mayor of Moscow. Hunter Biden then allegedly\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/23\/senate-report-links-hunter-biden-to-trafficking-ring\/\">funneled<\/a>\u00a0a part of these funds into human trafficking and prostitution rings. This alleged swindle, gained on the basis of his father\u2019s influence peddling, would be added to the vast sums reportedly collected from corrupt oligarchs in\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/11\/27\/hunter-bidens-reported-burisma-payout-was-far-above-comparable-board-compensation\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ukraine<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/10\/10\/6-facts-about-hunter-bidens-business-dealings-in-china\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>China<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Meanwhile, the vastly outflanked pro-Trump camp maintains that the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/legitgov\/status\/1312458876525056000\">attempted coup<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0extends to the upcoming presidential election. Fears are escalating that the Democratic Party\u2019s election machinery has already been set in motion,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/minneapolis-police-omar-ballot-harvesting\">harvesting<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 fraudulent or otherwise invalid mail-in\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/518682-new-yorkers-report-receiving-ballots-with-wrong-name-voter-addresses\">ballots<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in favor of\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/bidens-texas-political-director-accused-of-illegal-ballot-harvesting-at-texas-supreme-court\/\">Biden<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. These deep misgivings are compounded by early reports of dumped and<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/2020\/09\/24\/doj-alleges-local-pennsylvania-officials-opened-9-discarded-military-mail-in-ballots\/\">discarded<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0ballots for Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Anarchy in the USA<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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\u2019s Institute of Politics and Public Service, 83 percent of Americans\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/politics.georgetown.edu\/2019\/04\/24\/new-survey-overwhelming-number-of-americans-frustrated-by-incivility-in-politics-but-conflicted-on-desire-for-compromise-and-common-ground\/\">believe<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0that 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\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/washington-secrets\/powder-keg-61-say-us-on-verge-of-civil-war-52-already-prepping\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>civil war<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Other reports indicate that a nearly equal number of Democrats and Republicans (33 percent and 34 percent, respectively) believe that\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/10\/01\/political-violence-424157\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>violence<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0will be justified if their side loses the impending presidential election, up from just eight percent on both sides who believed that three years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The \u2018<em>left<\/em>\u2019 justifies its campaign of violence given the supposedly disproportionate unjustified police violence against blacks. The \u2018<em>right<\/em>\u2019 justifies its pondered response as necessary self-defense and defense of the nation after months of almost unhampered rampages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Surging gun sales across the country suggest that many Americans fear continued and increasing conflict. First-time gun and ammunition purchases have\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/06\/24\/gun-and-ammunition-sales-soar-as-defund-the-police-movement-grows\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>reached<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>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\u2019re 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\u2019s \u2018<em>occupation<\/em>\u2019 of the White House is illegitimate?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Pro-Trump pundits warn that the violence coming from \u2018leftists\u2019 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\u2019s head is left spinning. But suffice to say, anyone the least bit cognizant of the state of affairs is bracing for a massive confrontation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2018Things fall apart\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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 \u2013 a \u2018swing state\u2019 with the potential to be a center of a disputed election\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/518300-pennsylvania-risks-becoming-center-of-election-chaos\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>result<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0that looks to tip over into open mortal combat. I plan on voting in the early morning, then driving immediately to another, probably uncontested, state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The alarming state of affairs has led me to revisit a harrowing poem by William Butler Yeats, \u2018<em><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/43290\/the-second-coming\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Second Coming<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>\u2019. The first stanza captures the temper and pitch of the moment so well that I quote in its entirety:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Turning and turning in the widening gyre <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>The best lack all conviction, while the worst <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Are full of passionate intensity.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I met my first grandchild for the first time the other day. And I wept with trepidation for his future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This article first appeared in RT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2020\/10\/no_author\/as-our-uncivil-war-escalates-towards-the-real-thing-america-is-in-throes-of-unrest-unlike-any-in-our-244-year-history\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two thirds of Americans believe that the country is on course for civil war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":209909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214633"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214638,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214633\/revisions\/214638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}