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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Muddling 2 on September 26, 2021, 03:45:52 PM
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"A couple of years ago, I had the honor of publishing American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup by Frank Buckley, a prolific author and law professor at George Mason University. Buckley began by noting the obvious: that we in America are more divided now than at any time since the 1850s. We know how that Disunited States of America worked out, and the horror of the Civil War—what Buckley calls Secession 1.0—has led many of us to conclude that we’d put up with almost anything rather than risk a repeat of that disaster.
“Almost” anything.
Buckley does not predict a second American secession, exactly, but he shows, convincingly, I think, how it might come about. “The bitterness” of our life together, “the contempt for opponents, the growing tolerance of violence, all invite us to think that we’d all be happier were we two different countries.” There is something to that. And something to Buckley’s admonitory conclusion: “In all the ways that matter, save for the naked force of the law, we are already divided into two nations, just as much as in 1861.”
I hesitate to spoil the ending, but it is probably worth noting that in the end, despite his warnings and various scenarios of how the divorce might happen, Buckley turns out, again like most (but not all of us) to be a unionist. The United States may be too big and too powerful for its own or anyone else’s good, but might, while it doesn’t make right, does or at least conduce to stability.
And consider the alternative world orders on offer: Communist China? Islamic fundamentalism? European socialism?
No thank you. "
Link: https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/25/how-it-might-end-act-i/
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I think the end result will be more like in "Atlas Shrugged" We are on the down hill slope to mediocracy.
The have nots against the haves.
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Kurt Schlichter - lawyer, US Army Reserve colonel, author, columnist, and straight talker, has written 6 novels that are patterned after what he calls "The Split." The protagonist (Kelly Turnbull) is a no-bullshit, shoot-first kinda agent that works for the Red USA while the Blue People's Republik of America has a number of "issues" that need to be addressed. The stark inflation, lack of food, fuel, and staples on the Blue side (mostly the coasts) create lots of opportunity for tyranny, oppression, and corruption for the Haves.
One of the six books goes into an actual battle fought in Indiana between the Red and the Blue and we get a look at how Schlichter sees the Red patriots fighting a guerilla war and kicking the Blue's asses -- but not without serious bloodshed.
These are novels, but they're well written and the most unsettling thing -- they are completely plausible.
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These are novels, but they're well written and the most unsettling thing -- they are completely plausible.
They're instructional manuals.
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They're instructional manuals.
have you read them?