This is an unusual editorial from Spirit Daily, a religious (Catholic) website, so it should be heeded.
From “Prepping For Civil War?,” Spirit Daily, October 5, 2021:
We have warned about it for years, but now the signs — the tocsins — grow louder.
The United States is cleft, split at the seems, with hardcore “liberal” factions hardening (and aggressive, for they are currently in power) and hardcore “conservative” factions hardening, vowing as never before to resist the progressive agenda.
If you don’t think there can be an armed rebellion, consider the transpiring of January 6 and the fact that there are nearly four hundred million guns in the U.S. in private hands.
Consider also the proclivity for riots and looting, as occurred after George Floyd.
Religious freedom. Gun rights. Racism. Big Tech. Income inequality. Homosexual “rights.”
Once more, however, there is a central, sharply defined, and seemingly irreconcilable issue.
Just as slavery was the cleave during the First Civil War, abortion is the cutting edge, the Mason-Dickson line, of a second one.
A recent poll conducted by the Center for Politics found that “significant numbers of both Trump and Biden voters show a willingness to consider violating democratic tendencies and norms if needed to serve their priorities. Roughly two in ten Trump and Biden voters strongly agree it would be better if a ‘President could take needed actions without being constrained by Congress or courts,’ and roughly four in ten (41%) of Biden and half (52%) of Trump voters at least somewhat agree that it’s time to split the country, favoring blue/red states seceding from the union.”
There are other issues. There is the border. There’s education. There is alleged police brutality. There is euthanasia — which is every bit as evil as abortion (as is genetic manipulation and cloning). There are pandemic mandates and the vaccine issue. There is the widening gap between rich and poor (in New York there are about 8,300 people “worth” more than $30 million, and a million “worth” more than $1,000,000). (Watch for an uprising against the rich.)
Every single turn in national events has two opposing — and sometimes alternate — realities. We don’t even live in the same news cycle any longer….
But the single most defining issue remains abortion, and here, like slavery, there is no middle ground: one is either okay with its legality or morally repulsed by it.
A shame this is: that abortion has been so fervently embraced as a human “right,” when it has nothing to do with rights or freedom in any way whatsoever.
So it is that the killing of unborn is the new “slavery,” bringing to mind President Abraham Lincoln, who, signing a declaration on —- in 18 proclaiming a national day and repentance and fasting, used the word “chastisement” (now verboten) in describing the cause of the North-South war.
According to data from two national surveys, two years ago, “15% of self-identifying Republicans and 20% of self-identifying Democrats think the country would be better if members of the opposing party ‘just died.’” How Christian.
“We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God,” this proclamation said.
Lincoln discussed slavery throughout his second inaugural address, depicting it not only as the cause of the Civil War, but that slavery considered as an offence to God, drew God’s righteous judgement against the entire country.
The same is now true of America and abortion.
And once again, there can be roughly drawn a line between north and south (though in our time are those in both camps in all parts of the nation).
So how would a divide happen? How would secession play out? Will it be more various encampments in all parts of the nation that are on one side or another, with cyber-geography: each of the two sides coalescing over the internet (and God-forbid, social media)?
An interesting question, with as yet no ready answer.
See also Emma Green, “The Conservatives Dreading — and Preparing for — Civil War,” The Atlantic, October 1, 2021.
~E
“consider the transpiring of January 6″
I notice that even though there are several videos showing a large group of Antifa thugs dressing like Conservative protesters only minutes before all the real trouble began, NONE of the Mainstream News Media even acknowledges them, let alone shows them. Seeing those videos makes it clear as glass that the whole “insurrection” was arranged by the Leftists ONLY to blame Trump. Notice how NONE of them ever show the full footage of President Trump encouraging the people at his Rally to go to the Capital and PEACEFULLY make their voices heard. Only by abridging his comments, taking parts out of context, and introducing hired violent troublemakers into a peaceful protest could they make the claim that he incited an insurrection. I wasn’t surprised-for the last five years they (the Radical Democratic Socialists) have proven that they’re so afraid they can’t win the people of America over to make the US a Communist Country that they’ll do ANYTHING to keep America from adhering to the principals of the US Constitution. Be afraid-be VERY afraid.
Okay-the soapbox is yours.
I look on the problems of our society with great despair. Frankly, I think it all stems from taking God out of our lives–and this is the mess we are left with.
Well, as a student of history, I think almost anything can happen, like it has done already in our & our parents’/ grandparents’ lifetimes when, ….for centuries the Demorats supported slavery of Blacks for economic & social gains…and in the face of Federal Law, Civil War, & defeat, supported Jim Crow against the Civil Rights granted to Blacks after the Civil War by Constitutional Amendment…and furthermore, fought against continuously and up through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s, including voting rights, AND NOW…all of a sudden after centuries of this, the Demorats have become the darlings of Blacks in America today? Could they have “come around” to understand that they need the Black vote to survive once they did not prevail against it? DAH! And, have they served the Black vote well or AT ALL?????? We can each have our own answer for that….mine is, NO (Chicago, D.C., Baltimore, Detroit, SanFran…LA…etc etc). IMHO…they’ve created a permanent “new plantation system” for buying, for bare subsistence, and holding onto the Black vote. Only the strong and self-reliant, who take full advantage of their opportunities in America will ever be able to break free of this permanent Demorat “new plantation system” & take full membership in the American economy and American Constitutional guarantee, breaking the strangle-hold of an ancient system of servitude–that arrives in many forms.
In the end, as this article claims, I DO NOT think abortion will be the cleave-line between factions in the US that could start a “civil war.” NO. Emphatically NOT. Sorry, but my estimation is that Americans in the USA care the least for the unborn, and maybe even born children as a whole….from birth to age 18…than they do for so many other “passionate causes…” like, open borders (thus, illegals and their “plight”), the welfare system, Obama Care, Black Lives Matter, Defund the Police, zero bail reforms….LGBT etc alphabetica…& so on….. Sorry…the unborn “rights” (which you realize…DO NOT LEGALLY EXIST AT THIS TIME—so we are way behind the 8-ball on this) come way down this list just now. NEVER gonna bring a surge of Patriots to defend these lives…..sorry to say. Do I believe all to the contrary? YES! But do I believe we have a good front against it morally, religiously, legally yet? NO. There is much work that MUST be done along the lines of fetus survivability outside the womb….it’s been there/accessible for decades now, but the Roe v Wade ruling has not been challenged with modern science….. States have been trying to do this lately….but this MUST eventually go to the Supremes even as they do NOT want to do so…to ultimately define the basic right to life defined in the Declaration, then enumerated in the Constitution. Their reluctance just now rests on the old abortion pathos of being the right of states….but, eventually, it MUST be confronted as a right to life as defined by the Constitution in Federal Law….and….so far, no one wants to do that.