Here is where I add that I worked for about a decade up on Capitol Hill, Seattle. In the very place the Lefts later took over like it was Czarist Russia and 1917 again. The King of Chaz opened up his (luxery) car trunk and handed out AR carbines to what amounted to chimpanzees on meth. And here we are today.

Sorry, but I personalize everything. I’m nobody but I wish I could participate more in the politics of the present day. Anyway, I wanted to say that I once read the riot act on the street. It was a training exercise, thank God. What went through my mind was that this was the job of hurting Americans on a domestic battlefield. IDK if this is the Civil War 2 people talk about, but I do watch daily as it seems we are, at least, walking through the weirdness of the Sixties again.

Keep your powder dry, my friends.

Embrace the power of “and”, AD

But Art Deco’s link has a commenter saying:
Guy7500 8 hours ago “Insurrection act is coming.”
So perhaps we will see a resurrection of an insurrection?

But reflecting on Don @ 8:09pm; “We seem to be moving towards civil war … because Democrats insist on getting their way.”
I think the prospect of a Spanish Civil War type situation was growing under the political lawfare and warfare of the Obama/Biden admin, where if such practices had continued, some citizens would eventually end up killing (a lot of) other citizens. But with Trump exercising NG and other federal level reactions, I am beginning to think that will end up calming things down on balance, although there may still end up being more deaths than we would ever want to occur.

I suppose the group of 2028 Dem presidential and congressional candidate hopefuls might just say or do something truly stupid as part of trying to gain political traction; but if the media strangle hold on opinion is also declining, even this might be mitigated by reality.

But they are the same where it matters: rejecting legitimate federal authority and using violent militias to enforce their will.

We seem to be moving towards civil war for similar reasons we fought the last one, and in both cases it is because Democrats insist on getting their way.

Well, it’s good to have a debate about such things. Clears the air, and pins down exactly what we’re talking about.

I see little reason to draw an analogy at all, especially to something that happened 160 years ago for completely different reasons, involving completely different people who believe nothing in common with what today’s Democrats believe. It’s sufficient to factually describe what they are doing and how and why.

If calling them Confederates was some kind of propaganda kill shot it might still be worth doing, but it’s not. Linking them to crazy trans activists, foreign antisemite agitators, illegal immigrants, and assassins is far more effective and is indeed even truthful, and they themselves publicly embrace those people.

Not to mention that if 2024 had worked out a little differently it might well be red states needing to defy the Federal government now. You can bet they’d be called neo-Confederates for doing so, and it would also be a lie. There’s lots of relevant reasons why it’s morally right or wrong to do that and practically none of them have anything to do with the Confederacy.