Daily Verse | Malachi 4:2
“But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings.”
Monday’s Reading: Matthew 1-4
Happy Monday, my friends. For those of you who have been reading through the Bible this year with me, we finished the Old Testament on Saturday and today we start the New Testament. If you haven’t been reading with us, today’s a great day to start. We’ll be done with New Testament on January 1, 2022. I’ll start putting the day’s passage at the top of each post from now through the end of the year.
I’ve been saying for the last 6 or 7 years that all the trendlines point to a new civil war in United States. I was predicting it long before opinion leaders and political commentators began sounding the alarm.
Frankly, we’ve been at war already for many years; it just hasn’t gone hot yet. But the last two elections have exposed how deep—and how hostile—the division is in our country between “red” and “blue” America. We really are two peoples living in the same geographic location called the United States of America.
Last week Ace over at Ace of Spades HQ shared three articles that justify my conviction that we were headed this way and that it might finally be reaching a tipping point.
The first is from the Daily Mail, where a new poll shows what looks like a near-majority of voters want red and blue states to separate:
“A new poll has revealed that political divisions run so deep in the US that over half of Trump voters want red states to secede from the union, and 41% of Biden voters want blue states to split off.”
If we go to the analysis itself, we read that “Illustrating the extent of the underlying divide, nearly 90% of voters on both sides agree that people like them won’t belong in America anymore if the “other side” has its way, and more than 1 in 5 say they “agree completely” that such is the case.”
This sentiment doesn’t surprise me at all. Democrats are the political enemies of freedom and prosperity. They really have no business being here.
Two-thirds of all voters on both sides of the aisle think the opposition voters “have become a clear and present danger” to their way of life.
Over 75% of voters on both sides agreed with the statement: ‘I believe that Americans who strongly support the [OPP_PARTY] have become a clear and present danger to the American way of life.’ Seventy-five percent of Biden voters at least somewhat agreed with the statement, as did 78% of Trump voters.
The second article is a blog post by David Reaboi titled, “National Divorce Is Expensive, But It’s Worth Every Penny.”
As with any breakup or divorce, even if we had a popular consensus for a National Divorce in principle, there are all kinds of details—and massive, very thorny ones, like who gets which territories, populations, industries or nuclear weapons caches—that could cause tumultuous and potentially violent negotiations. All these points of contention are very real and shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand; they’re not going anywhere. The seriousness of these issues and their daunting solutions are meant to prove that the breakup of the United States will always be an impossibility.
But that’s not right. National Divorce or some other, more tragic and chaotic outcome won’t be impossible orever. Despite heaping dollops of patriotic propaganda—which, admittedly, is essential to maintenance of the citizens’ faith in the regime—one day, the United States will end. History teaches us that regimes, like all human creations, rise and fall—and world-bestriding empires fall harder, faster, and more surely than that. Admitting this is a possibility isn’t as accurate as understanding it as a certainty; yes, the timeline is hazy, but it’s coming.
Reaboi believes it’s only a matter of time before we endure a national break-up. He sees it as inevitable. In his post, he’s responding to his friend Karol Markowicz’s piece in the New York Post in which she writes that the idea of a break-up “has understandably gained steam — though it can’t possibly work and shouldn’t.”
Some people believe such a split isn’t in the cards; can’t be done. Others think it’s inevitable. I’m with the latter, but I believe there’s a solution to that coming split—we’ll have to fight to keep it from becoming permanent. More about that in a minute.
The third article is a conversation between Emma Green of The Atlantic, a very liberal publication, and Ryan Williams of The Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank. Here’s an excerpt that I think is accurate (with my emphasis):
Green: Glenn Ellmers wrote an essay for The American Mind about why the Claremont Institute isn’t conservative. One of the things he writes is that some people residing in the United States—“certainly more than half”—are not Americans in any recognizable sense.
What does it mean to declare that more than half of the people residing in the country are not truly American?
Williams: Glenn was, of course, being provocative and polemical. But if Claremont thinks real Americanism is a belief in the principles of the American founding, we have to acknowledge that a good portion of our fellow citizens don’t agree with our principles and conclusions about what politics is for. If we differ on those fundamental things, we’re really two Americas.
Even during the Civil War—I think we’re more divided now than we were then. As Lincoln said, we all prayed to the same God. We all believed in the same Constitution. We just differed over the question of slavery.
I might come around but right now I am not in favor of dividing up the country, for a lot of reasons. First, I don’t want some “blue” country right on my doorstep. The radicals in Congress and the leaders of the Democrat Party have great contempt for our Constitution and seem to believe that socialism—the end result of which is hardcore communism—is the preferred governing system. If that’s true, then we should expect that a socialist democratic system will reach out for support to communist China and Muslim theocracies like Iran, which are both dictatorships. Do we really want some junior commies next door making deals with hardcore communist and fascist countries?
Another reason I don’t want to break up the country and divide the spoils with progressive commie Democrats is that the only reason they have the support they do is that they’ve deceived the fools who follow them. They’ve brainwashed our children, they’ve imported millions of impoverished people of the third world as dependents to keep themselves in power, and they’ve lied, lied, lied about everything. EVERYTHING. They live in an idealized fantasy world where they think that 4 trillion dollars will somehow make everything beautiful and morally right.
It will not. One only has to look at the track record of progressive Democrats to see that they ruin everything they touch. EVERYTHING.
My final reason for not wanting to break up the country flows from the previous one: the only reason we’re even talking about a “national divorce” is that the domestic communists in this country have poisoned the well. They’re the ones that are agitating for change. They’re the ones who have created the conflict, then blamed it on their fellow conservative (normal) Americans.
The Democrats, BLM, antifa and the mask Karens like Howard Stern have told us they don’t want us, that we’re homophobes, deplorables, xenophobes, racists and bitter clingers; that this country must pay for its sins. Stern actually said, “We want you to leave the country. Go somewhere where they have ultimate freedom, wherever that is, some bizarro world where you don’t have to take the vaccine.”
No, Howard. That’s not how this works. We were here first. If you don’t like this system of government or the people who respect our heritage, traditions, history and want less government and more freedom, then you leave. Go somewhere where your vision of communist propaganda fits—there’s plenty of them out there.
I will not be bullied into surrendering any of my country to these people. If they want it, they will have to pry it out of my cold, dead fingers that are wrapped around the trigger of my Second Amendment rights. They don’t get to walk off with half the country of my birth, founded by men whom, in comparison to our modern-day junior commies, are intellectual giants.
If you want it, you’ll have to come and take it.
Molon labe.
