How do you start a Civil War?

Posted by $ 25n56il4 5 years, 10 months ago to Politics
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Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can't settle the question through elections because they don't even agree that elections are how you decide who's in charge. That's the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a Civil War. (I wish I had written this but I didn't)


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  • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
    When you consistently reject the results of an election that you don't win, what you want is a Dictatorship. Your very own Dictatorship.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 5 years, 10 months ago
    Watch Hannity at night and listen to Rush during the day.
    Me dino is optimistic that the rule of law shall eventually prevail.
    Dem-wit dirty deeds were done because the sure fire election of the entitled The Evil Hag would have covered them up.
    Well, the cackling dream of open borders did not win and that attempt to derail the now Choo-Chooing Trumpet Of Progress with that lying Russian pile of nothing was an even bigger mistake.
    Me dino is looking forward to popping popcorn when Comey and company stand trail.
    Virtual cries of blasphemy shall be howled on CNN should $hillary and the Clinton Foundation Crime Cartel ever deservedly face criminal charges.
    Also deserved would charges made against the Obamanation for a Traitor-In-Chief, but me dino fears that extensive rioting and random attacks against innocent Caucasians shall result.
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  • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
    The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. This isn't the first time they have done this. The first time a Republican president was elected in this Century, they said he didn't really win. The Supreme Court said he did. There's a pattern here.
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
      I recall the election of Mr Obama. He wasn't my choice. But I said, "Okay, good. Let's see how he handles himself." I didn't think he had much of a background and I wondered why everyone kept saying how smart he was. Not the impression I was getting. Then this Obama Care really lost me. Working in the healthcare field, I wasn't impressed. And he really acquired an interesting amount of wealth somehow and he entered the White House, according to my research, practically penniless! Is that why our Founding Father's felt a person should have a certain amount of wealth to be selected as President of our country?
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      • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
        Okay. One parting shot...Our system of government is supposedly based on the Constitution, but that's not the system that it is running this Country. I worry about little things like that.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 5 years, 10 months ago
    "When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a Civil War."
    How does that work? What are the objectives?
    How do you know when you've won. What do you do with the defeated?

    I ask these questions because I do not see inability to settle questions through elections leading to civil war. I think civil war is a special case of that where the disagreeing parties are separated along somewhat clear boundaries, i.e. the North and South. In the US, I do not even see people unable to settle questions through elections. I cannot at this moment think of any major issues, beyond the usual wedge issues, that people can't disagree on. I don't mean like capital punishment or abortion. I mean something where some people want communism/social and some people want liberarianism or some people want a strong federal gov't while other want local autonomy. I don't see it at all.
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