I launched into this as a brief comment in response to the enlightening diary posted by SemDem about the new threats being made if somehow Trump is not reelected. For the handful of you who have taken the time to read anything I have posted on the Daily Kos there was little to no hope that that was going to happen. As such this morphed into a diary and it did because as I started to write this I was struck again by just how much this issue was really driving me nuts. We have to get a handle on this or there is little to no doubt that any number of highly confused bad actors will cave to their delusions and unnecessarily create a situation that will lead to more irrational and unneeded death and destruction……………………………………….
This whole nonsense of “a new civil war” really drives me nuts. As if the total destruction of large areas of the south and the deaths of 620,000 individuals as we had during the first and I certainly hope the last Civil War, nearly half of all persons killed in all of our military conflicts combined, wasn’t bad enough. Who is it that thinks about this and their next thought is ‘that’s a great idea’.
It used to be that if you were interviewing some guy who had spent the last twenty years in the northernmost regions of Montana living alone and completely off the land with no connection to the grid and still fuming about how the Symbionese Liberation Army was a movement for positive change and somehow was just misunderstood by the police and the media, for him this might be a thing. You might hear this person suggest that a new civil war just might be what it takes to fix everything. slate.com/…
In this new Bizzaro America, in which Trump daily tries to make everything about this nation a mutated exact opposite of what it has been for nearly 240 years, it is now fashionable to spout the increasingly popular trope that a civil war is just what this country needs to make it great again. You now hear it talked about openly on certain news and entertainment channels, in certain national periodicals, and frequently on the more extreme fringes of nearly every form of right wing media communications. We have even seen recently in one of his more unhinged tweets the President of the United States making veiled threats that if he doesn’t get his way for something stupid like the Wall and or get reelected that he will unleash various violent and heavily armed parties and it won’t go well for those who oppose him. Certainly an all time low as our Commander In Chief threatens the citizens of the very country he is sworn to serve and protect.
As though this war would be something akin to one of the civil war reenactments that have become so popular all across the nation. Only this wouldn’t be a fun afternoon of acting out the various horrific meat grinders that killed tens of thousands of troops in a single day in our first civil war, to be followed by all the participants joining together in brotherly love to enjoy kegger’s and barbecue’s while they congratulate each other on what a good job they did of pretending to die. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of Americans would actually lose their lives, vast portions of numerous cities and all associated infrastructure would be obliterated. Our economy in large degree would collapse. And the things that are most terrifying are that it would create a circumstance whereby our nation would be completely open to attack by foreign powers who would just as soon see us gone from the world stage. That does not even begin to address the endless list of unintended consequences that would affect the entire globe, pandemics, starvation, the outbreak of wars worldwide as the protection of the United States no longer held numerous threats in check.
Even in a best case scenario if you had tens of thousands of individuals who were delusional enough to believe that a nationwide military clash of cultures would actually solve anything, the first opponent they would face would be the U.S. military. Don’t think for a moment that the underlying limitation of The Posse Comitatus Act would not fall by the wayside if the very nature of our democracy and the functioning of our government was threatened by large well armed militias who’s intent was to destroy it all. Not to mention probably just as many if not far more individuals who are rational enough to understand the threat to their nation and the lives of their loved ones is something well worth trying to protect, would take up arms against such a force and risk their lives to put an end to it. If there is any recent event that should be an example of why this whole notion of destroying this nation to rebuild it the way you think it should be, is a really bad idea, look at what happened to ISIS. I am sure that those who supported this absurd notion to forcibly attempt to return this region of the Middle East, if not the whole world, to the sixth century AD are rather disappointed that it has not ended even close to anything like many of these individuals had hoped it would. en.wikipedia.org/...
Finally just how twisted and perverted does your perspective of this world have to be to think that killing mass numbers of Americans and destroying the lives and livelihood of millions of citizens of this country to fight against injustices that are largely the fabricated delusions of conspiracy theorists, is a good idea. A world of destruction and complete chaos where human life has no worth, this is the world you would have your children, and grandchildren, and future generations inherit ? I think it’s well past time we start to seriously try to examine and understand why the extreme right and even some of those on the far left are now willing to even consider this dangerous and disastrous path. Possibly this delusional idea of end times, the same one which has been endlessly claiming that ‘the end of the world as we know it is most definitely going to happen next week’, for over the past 4000 years. Or maybe just Trump enthusiasts who refuse to believe that “The Donald” has been lying to them all along and are extremely pissed because the path they have been dragged down is a complete lie that is far far more destructive than the one that the GOP has falsely claimed for decades that the Democrats would “impose upon them” if they won office. Whatever, this needs to be addressed, and this demented ‘other solution’ exposed to the light of day and identified as the extreme form of insanity it actually is.