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I’ve been saying for several years now that, unless something changes, we’re headed for Civil War 2.0. I’ve had others tell me it won’t happen, questioning how it could happen, where it would happen, and thinking we’re too big to see it happen. I remain unconvinced of those arguments.
I occasionally came across whispers of Civil War 2.0 as I did research on my own, mostly in corners of the Internet that would be considered fringe sites. Even though the sites weren’t considered credible by mainstream opinion leaders, their observations confirmed the escalating tensions I was seeing in the culture. That changed as time went on and national opinion leaders like Dennis Prager began to say the same thing.
The fear of a break out of violence really got its legs in the wake of the 2014 Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. That’s when the Black Lives MatterTM movement gained momentum and when we got our first taste of the mayhem such “protests” could generate.
There was the horrific ambush of Dallas police officers in 2016. There was the 2017 shooting of U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and three others during the Republican team’s practice for a charity baseball game by man who was enraged against Republican legislators.
The election of president Trump in 2016 unleashed a torrent of hatred toward him and his supporters and seemed to rip the country in half. Trump supporters were beaten or accosted, had their cars rammed, stolen or set on fire, had their MAGA hats stolen, and were accused of hate crimes they didn’t commit, among other things. Republican administration officials or congressmen were confronted, accosted or kicked out of restaurants.
Current congress-critters piled on with inflammatory speech, like Maxine Waters who encouraged a crowd to harass Trump supporters or former Obama AG Eric Holder, who told his group, “When [Republicans] go low, we kick them.” And, of course, the latest from Nancy Pelosi, calling those at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, “domestic enemies,” one of the most irresponsible things anyone at that level of government could say.
Our nation’s celebrities also became unhinged. Kathy Griffin posed with a mock severed head of Donald Trump covered in blood (and ruined her career). Robert De Niro lost his mind after Trump was elected, demeaning him every chance he gets. Jimmy Kimmel alienated half of his audience with “emotionally-charged monologues about healthcare and gun violence.” Alec Baldwin relishes his turns playing Trump on Saturday Night Live and has called him “an incompetent idiot.” Cher lashes out at Republicans and has called Trump a liar and a murderer.
Then there have been all the attempts to force Trump from office, including the Russia-collusion hoax that goes all the way to the top of the Obama administration—including 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden; the sham impeachment effort; the Kung Flu and the lock downs that have destroyed an economy that was the best our country had ever seen; and now the anarchy and chaos of BLM and Antifa.
There’s a lot more examples, but the point I want to make is that the division has been growing louder and less civil as time has gone on. We’re way beyond disagreements over a particular policy position. We’re now confronting insurrectionists who want to overthrow our entire system of government and replace it with socialism.
These insurrectionists are parading through neighborhoods and and demanding people give up their homes. We even have a candidate for elected office standing in a residential neighborhood confronting white home owners.
We are facing increasingly vocal, violent and brazen revolutionaries who are threatening neighborhoods, businesses, police and government officials, and innocent civilians.
The most recent sign that tension is mounting? Guns. Lots and lots of guns are beginning to appear on the streets. Not in the hands of police, but in the hands of citizens.
Here’s just a few of the guns we’ve recently seen in public.
I can’t tell you where this will end up. I’m just watching and observing the trend lines. As of right now, the guns seem to be more accessory than utility. But will they stay that way?
After the election is decided this November, all bets are off.