Over the last few years, many people have wondered if our country was headed for another Civil War. Maybe they started wondering back in 98 with the Clinton impeachment, or 2000 when the election didn’t have a clear winner. Maybe they started wondering on 911, or after the invasion of Iraq. No doubt many wondered after the FBI put their fingers on the scale of the 2016 election, or during the two partisan impeachments. The MSM and Democrats had no problem trying to convince the world that Jan 6 was an insurrection (albeit while conveniently forgetting the 3 days in Jan 2017 when Democrats rioted and burned DC). There has been a Great Recession that took longer than the Great Depression to recover, a pandemic, lockdowns, George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, and record levels of poverty. Roe vs Wade, mass shootings, gun rights, and militant Marxist transvestite mass murderers. There’s been a lot of extremely divisive moments and issues in the past 25 years, and these are just a few!
Perhaps the most divisive and most explosive issue has yet to really reach a boiling point: Reparations. It’s the idea that 13% of the population who were never slaves should be paid by 87% of the population who never owned slaves. That 13% doesn’t just want to be paid, but paid TRILLIONS of dollars. Increasingly they are being convinced by Democratic Party leaders and mainstream media that not only are reparations to be considered, but they are a debt owed; that each person in that 13% should be paid millions of dollars for nothing they did and nothing they suffered.
It was an issue in the 2020 election where every democratic Presidential candidate said they agreed with the idea. Several universities, cities, and states are already actively considering their own reparations to the 13%. In 2024 it will be a much bigger issue. Nothing buys votes better than the promise of a chicken in every pot-except the promise of millions of dollars in cash in every bank account. Who would turn down the check after being told for decades that they were victims, and that the money was owed to them; that they had a right to be paid?!
Conversely, 87% of the American people must be convinced to pay. 10-20% of the 87% are Democrats who will agree with anything the party says is right. For example, the party can tell people that while public schools are failing, while there’s little or no money for arts, music, and sports there should be money for drag queens to give lap dances to 8yr old kids…and most Democrats will agree with it. However, of the remainder of that 87%, how many are Asian, Hispanic, and Native American who all would ask, “Um, where’s MY reparations millions?” How many whites from families who came to America long after the Civil War would ask, “What should I pay for something that happened long before my family became Americans?” What of the people who take their oaths to become American citizens next Monday “We just became citizens-why should WE pay millions of dollars?” What about the people who are asked to pay reparations who watch TV and see mass riots in Chicago, huge bands of people robbing stores in NYC, or a mob breaking into and cleaning out a gas station in LA-why should they pay millions to the 13% that’s responsible for most of the violent crime in the country?
The case for and against reparations is huge. There’s a wealth of pro/con articles, books, and speeches that one can research. When studying the subject, it becomes less of a giveaway to the 13%, much smaller than demanded, more reasonable, and more understanding. The brutal fact is, however, most people aren’t going to study the pros/cons. They’re gonna watch their preferred media spin and parrot the opinion they like the best with the half-truths and half-facts they’re shown.
The partisan divide, the massive scale of reparations demanded, and the undisputed fact that reparations will not repair the damage of slavery make it the best issue to cause a civil war. Imagine how you would react if you were told you had to pay hundreds of thousands in taxes for reparations? How about when you see that your 4 year old daughter has to pay the same millions of dollars? Now imagine the craziest person you know getting told the same thing. The potential for violence, mass violence, and even something like Civil War is real.
A second American Civil War would not be like the 1860 War Between the States. It’s doubtful that entire states would secede. Its doubtful vast armies would do battle in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and the Mississippi. We could see red states with supermajorities in state legislatures kicking out blue cities. There’s already an effort for red counties to leave blue Oregon and join Idaho, and that’s as legal as it was for West Virginia to leave Virginia. There are other states that would like to divide, and some states like Illinois or New York where a few blue cities are financial and political parasites to the rest of the state. How political bodies support or oppose reparations could be the over-arching issue that slavery was in 1860.
The big difference between 1860 and today isn’t the issue or the popular and political divide under it. No, the big difference is that President Joe Biden is the polar opposite of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was willing to lay ruin to more than half the country, leave 10% of the country dead or dismembered, crash the economy for decades, and all to preserve the Union. Joe Biden, on the other hand, didn’t have the political or personal balls to leave 2000 troops in Afghanistan to protect half a million Afghan allies, and when he ordered the American rout, he wiped his hands of dust at the reality of leaving behind hundreds-even thousands of Americans to the Taliban. This week, he did it again when he abandoned 16,000 Americans in Sudan.
The entire purpose of the US Military is to protect Americans, and the commander-in-chief chose to abandon instead of protecting Americans. How could such a pathetic excuse for a leader ever handle a battle like Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, or Shiloh? How would Joe “Your On Your Own” Biden handle the close of the Civil War when 85,000 Americans died in just 4 battles over a few weeks? He couldn’t. He wouldn’t, and if faced w conflict at any level…he won’t.
As a senator, Biden opposed removing Saddam. As Vice President, he opposed the raid that killed Bin Laden. He opposed the raid that killed the head of ISIS. He opposed the raid that killed Soleimani. While one President may have liked to speak softly and carry a big stick, Biden rants and raves like a crazy old tough guy, then begs for mercy, “C’mon man.”
It’s impossible to imagine Joe Biden authorizing the use of force on a city, county, state, or states that chose to secede. Asked about that kind of situation he once boasted that it could never happen because the Federal government has F-15 fighter planes and nuclear weapons.
That was obviously before the Taliban defeated him. America can have a civil war, but violence at any level-whether a militant Marxist transvestite mob or “mostly peaceful” BLM protest that leaves billions of dollars in damage, and even if it were a militia or an army, Joe Biden has proven he will never fight like Lincoln to protect our nation. He’s so timid he wouldn’t so much as pop a balloon.