The Bloodless Civil War in America
Posted by freedomforall 4 years, 9 months ago to Politics
Intelligence analyst and Iraq/Afghanistan war veteran Samuel Culper breaks down a rational way to look at "Civil War 2."
Unless patriotic Americans act soon, socialist control of America is guaranteed.
Unless patriotic Americans act soon, socialist control of America is guaranteed.
SOURCE URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca7mGSvRdoM
Peace and prosperity for the world is our goal.
No more deep state divide and conquer.
The almost inevitable path to WWII was not caused by where and when Japan unpredictably decided to attack. FDR wanted the war and planned a "backdoor to war" that most of the citizens did not want and did not know about. He expected it as a result of his own foreign policy, knowing that he was deliberately provoking it while carefully avoiding be seen as the attacker. He didn't have to know where they would attack to know what he was getting. FDR's actions were in turn part of the general progressive trend and the willingness of the voters to put him back in office several times.
In the 1960s and early 70s there were violent uprisings across the country, in many ways more widespread and common than today. The New Left leaders were anticipating a Marxist revolution, but with the end of the draft and the Vietnam war that movement collapsed and they went back to an incremental approach with economic and environmental regulations clamping down steadily over time in a more "stable" trend driven by the intellectual establishment..
The sporadic overt violence by antifa and a couple of radical left universities in recent decades has in some ways caused a backlash, but without reversing the trend driven by the same ideas. The radical left -- originating in the New Left now entrenched in 'mainstream' politics and business -- came very close to the Presidency with Gore and Kerry until they got it (and Congress at the same time) with Obama, which in turn created another backlash.
But with the premises of the intellectuals left unchallenged, the backlash can never be enough, instead creating a zigzag but net decline. No one can predict when some instability might cause a sudden lurch down, but we can predict the overall trend downward if the philosophical trends are not reversed. It becomes harder and harder to reverse as it becomes more entrenched, until freedom of speech is all that is left, for as long as that lasts, to protest entrenched statism.
For example, more and more states have become 'blue' or unreliable, and it's not hard to see where that is leading and what is becoming impossible to reverse by a voter backlash alone -- just as, ahead of us by several decades, the Fabian Socialists and the Labor Party zigzagged Britain into socialism and stagnation, with no recovery possible in the foreseeable future because even though a lot of them don't like it, they don't know enough to know what is right and are afraid to give up their torment.
Thanks...(I think?), Freedom
There is nothing in it at all about the nature of the philosophical ideas driving the course of the nation and what is required to reverse it. Ayn Rand wrote about the underlying cause and solution extensively, including the nature of pressure group warfare,"Global Balkinization", and the civil war between the original American individualist sense of life and the establishment intellectuals. Repeatedly ignoring this on an Ayn Rand forum while speculating about upcoming chaos with an empty injunction to "act soon" makes no sense.
Her books have never been popular with the intellectual establishment, including in the schools. The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged spread by word of mouth despite the establishment hatchet reviews, from the beginning through the Tea Party popularization. They can't stop people from reading and talking (and they can't stop the Ayn Rand Institute programs that have put tens of thousands of the books into the classrooms.)
But talking requires understanding, which is not automatic. Discussion on this forum is surely not enough, but it can be a source of information, and could be a source of knowledge of events from an Ayn Rand perspective, on how to apply Ayn Rand's ideas, and where to find out more.
Ayn Rand discussed the importance of first understanding for oneself and then of speaking out in her articles "Don't Let it Go" (1971) and "What Can One Do?" (1972), both in her anthology Philosophy: Who Needs It?
Unfortunately, too many on this forum have little understanding or interest in Ayn Rand. They liked something she said or something about a novel and never went beyond that, assuming that "Ayn Rand" only means whatever they already believed -- which here is mostly conservativism, mixed in with anti-intellectual conspiracy theories and utopian schemes, none of which Ayn Rand is. They don't look to see what the philosophy is that made Atlas Shrugged possible, and what is required to change the course of the nation.
Creating an impossible utopian "Gal's Gulch" does not suddenly become possible when there are "political and social forces" that are destructive. You can only do what is possible, which requires understanding cause and effect. There are no short cuts. Fantasizing wishful thinking is not a substitute.
If you want to know what Ayn Rand wrote about this start with "Don't Let it Go" and "What Can One Do?" in Philosophy: Who Needs It?. This has been referred to many times on this forum.
Okay, on this forum I wrote a list and posited some ideas of an island Gulch. To answer that isn't possible:
1. If you Google - islands for sale; there is a plethora of islands for sale.
2. I created a list of what "I" can do and procure with sizeable monetary resources. (see: JBrenner Assigns Homework)
3. The way I view Gulch in "Atlas Shrugged" isn't quite a Utopia. I view it as an alternative hidden industrial zone which is governed by the founding members of the Gulch and John Galt is the chairman of the board.
4. I'm submitting "my" scenario in a rational way.
5. "I'm" not fantasizing! "I'm" thinking o/s the box!