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We have been at Civil War...for quite some time...
Both the Sexual Revolution and Drug war had been Civil Wars I am not sure if people even know how to end some kinds of covert War’s civil or not for the most part there has been and extraordinary effort in keeping at least both of those wars covert.
Also, there have been multiple World Wars as well that have not been officially recognized.
This does not change truth it only is a sign of loss of some kind of legal representation.
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I reckon were not going to have any more civil wars and you should know because there’s going to be one big war t try o end all wars which is about the only thing I believe about the Bible any way
A battle to end all battles is not a big War combat, battle, and war a collection of events that might take place in a Civil / Intrastate or Conventiional war. I could not find a word to describe what a war is named when it is not taking place within the same state. I went with the word Conventional War as the goal in this type war is not over occupation of land instead it is over principles of justice and law as a united state.
The self-evident truth in the bible is that water was not the apocalypse to end all life on earth it will be fire. The flood was originally intended to end all life built from the origins of the original human sin not war, the understanding is made that truth had found hope in humanity GOD (as self-evident truth which told Noa). The burning of earth is not in the control of mankind we can simply also destroy the world by fire or even move it in opposition of natural destruction.
Understanding takes change it is not a result of a speed race...honor and be honored.
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'We must fight and kill our countrymen in order to save the country!' What an asinine solution. It reaks of the 'might makes right' mentality often advocated by authoritarians, 'gravy seals', 'y'allqueda', and other wannabe warriors.
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Sounds more like PantyFA and Buying Large Mansions.
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That comment is confused. I'm not sure what it is you mean to say. Do you think the civil war was fought for 5 years (it was 4 years), or that democrats now and democrats then share a similar political ideology? In actuality, Democrats from then would identify with the Republican party now. And "some semblance of sustainability....with proper protocol and authorization"? ...I have no idea.
Make it make sense, because this is making you sound unhinged.
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You're not doing any better than RickeyD. Make your gibberish make sense:
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Civil war era Democrats were for States' rights (the states right to enslave). However, what I said about a Democrat from then identifying as a Republican now isn't wrong. Back then Democrats were conservatives, and now Republicans are conservatives.
As for abortion, that wasn't a political issue in the civil war era. But it should be noted it was mostly Republicans justices who made abortion legal in 1973. Does that blow your mind?
Basically, your narrative is hard to square with reality. Feel free to look it up if you don't believe me. Alternatively, I will be happy to provide substantiation should you choose to let evidence shape your views of the world for a change.
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He's the only one saying anything intelligent in this thread.
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You're correcting what I haven't said. I said abortion was not a political issue during the civil war era. This is true. Abortion was politicized after Roe V Wade. It wasn't even a default objection among religious groups. In 1970, something like 70% of Southern Baptists supported abortion. You, or whoever you are getting your info from, are grossly overstating the political importance of abortion historically.
As far as the 'Southern Strategy', it's no myth. There is ample evidence of it. From the 1960's to now, the Republican party has targeted conservatives unhappy by the Democratic party's embrace of Civl rights legislation and equality.
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Well it just might be, after all America has enjoyed a great amount of sustainability for quite some time, and as we know that is a pretty serious problem, a civil war would definitely fix that, after all, something has to be done about America's sustainability!
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Even if I were a "brainwashed puppet [that] hate the Country, hate our Founding...hate capitalism and God" it wouldn't make your beliefs about the Southern Strategy true.
As usual, you fail to respond to counter-arguments with anything substantive. My arguments stand.
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The Democratic Party’s claim to be the party of the good guys, while the Republicans are the party of the bad guys, hinges on the tale of Richard Nixon’s so-called Southern Strategy. According to this narrative, advanced by progressive historians, Nixon orchestrated a party switch on civil rights by converting the racists in the Democratic Party — the infamous Dixiecrats — into Republicans. And now, according to a recent article in The New Republic, President Trump is the “true heir, the beneficiary of the policies the party has pursued for more than half a century.”
Yes, this story is in the textbooks and on the history channel and regularly repeated in the media, but is it true? First, no one has ever given a single example of an explicitly racist pitch by Nixon during his long career. One might expect that a racist appeal to the Deep South actually would have to be made, and to be understood as such. Yet, quite evidently none was. https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/402754-the-myth-of-nixons-southern-strategy/
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This intimates a strategy can be racist only if explicitly stated. It is no secret human motivations are not always plainly stated. That's not to say we can't follow a pattern of actions and derive the goal. We do this all the time.
Lee Atwater explained how this can be (and is/was) achieved through dog whistles. It is possible to have a racist pitch without saying anything about race...
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On top of this, the Nixon tapes reveal Nixon had some strong prejudices against Jews and Blacks.
And, Nixon's counsel and Assistant for Domestic Affairs, John Ehrlichman, made clear some of the goals of the Nixon admin:
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
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Dog whistles are a thing, buddy. Lee Atwater explains it well:
Link
It is not necessarily reasonable to expect an explicit mention of race when race is a consideration.
Secondly, Nixon did make his strong prejudices known and this is recorded on the Nixon tapes. He was distrustful of Jews and felt Black people inferior. Here is an example.
Link
Finally, council and Assistant for Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman revealed Nixon was motivated to go after the "anti-war Left and Blacks".
Long story short, Nixon and others appealed to white conservative bigots through language and programs which targeted non-whites and non-conservatives thereby centralizing their vote in the Republican party.
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You've already posted this. Just fyi, PragerU isnt known to be the most objective or accurate source. Given the choice between the summary of the Southern strategy from Lee Atwater, insights from Nixon's own council on racist motivations behind some of his policies, audio evidence from the Nixon presidential library of Nixon being antisemitic and racist, etc., or PragerU ... the choice is easy: PragerU got it wrong.
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Which party has traditionally been more responsible for empowering African-Americans — doing away with slavery and its vestiges, enabling black people to vote and own property and putting numerous black members into Congress before 1900? Well here’s a little hint: it isn’t the Democratic Party.
In fact, if it were up to the Democrats, there might still be slave-owning plantations in the United States, and the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution (which abolished slavery, established citizenship for African-Americans and gave them voting rights, respectively) might never have been ratified.
As it stands, even the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was opposed by a majority of Democrats, who filibustered the proposed law for months. So, while the Democrats may be proud that they first put a black man into the Oval Office (who turned out to be one of the most racially divisive and inflammatory leaders in modern history), the long track record of their party doesn’t reflect well on them at all.
Watch as Vanderbilt University Professor Carol Swain reminds us why the Republican Party is far more of a champion of civil rights than the Democratic Party can ever claim to be.
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This is great advice! ...something should also be said about vetting sources, but great advice nonetheless.
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No need for a civil war at this time. The states are taking their stand. The only time a civil war would happen would be when the Federal government gets to big for their panties and starts unconstitutionally start taking the rights away from the states or the states refuse to follow the constitution will of the decisions of Congress like what happened in the only civil war we have had. That was a war I think needed to happen in order to keep the states united and had a just cause.
There are a lot more that needs to happen before a second civil war would even be worth talking about.
In the meantime political activism and voting are a better choice to throw you and your like minded friends to put their energy in.
Stand down and let the system work for now.
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Too bad he needed to hear what I had to say and what other reasonable people had to say.
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