I was working on a long-form Substack post for Memorial Day, and as I was revisiting the history, something interesting occurred to me. The Civil War’s Decoration Day became Memorial Day, and one of the South’s pre-Civil War Concerns is similar to modern Americans’ current problems.
It is the overwhelming political influence of densely populated urban or industrialized areas (in the North) over most of the rural population, its character, and its culture. In the 1800s, the North was growing in population, which resulted in majority representation in Congress. This would then influence national policy that threatened the pre-Civil War South—not just slavery but nearly everything from commerce to culture. It was a legitimate concern elucidated by political thinkers like John Calhoun. It worried them enough to start a war.
One hundred and seventy years later (more or less), our mostly rural landscapes have been overrun (politically) by densely populated cities. Large cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago dominate statewide elections as they would a national one (National Popular Vote). Portland and Seattle drive the politics in Washington and Oregon. Maine has recently fallen to the political left thanks to progressive heat islands like Portland, Lewiston, and Bangor.
Most of America’s rural landscape is increasingly tilted politically by a handful of growing progressive population centers that have nothing in common with the rest of most states (or the nation).
Is it an odd twist of history that rural interests are in a political fight to prevent the urban progressives from turning all of us (effectively) into slaves of the state? A state looking to suppress speech, the right to defend ourselves, our mobility, privacy, sovereignty, and even our food choices.
I suppose the unanswered question is if the Left is genuinely willing to do anything to protect the Statist Uniparty Cabal’s hold on power, will it lead to another civil war – and one without so clearly drawn lines?
I’m not advocating it (that’s for our friends in the NSA and the FBI). But the Dems have been acting like they intend to do things that would incite one (broad language banning so-called ‘militias,’ for example, attacking a popular president, jailing his supporters, and the escalation of surveillance along with its war on so-called misinformation campaigns).
I’ve long said the Blob would love a gunfight. It’s an excuse to institute Martial law – to conscript local law enforcement under national control and institute oppressive emergency orders. It is a progressive Command and control infrastructure wet dream.
I’m not saying it would work or not inflame any resistance, but I think they’ve wanted it since at least Obama.
If Trump wins and they can’t steal it back, and they don’t assassinate him (and I think they would do that to start the war they want), their coordinated post-election street violence will do its best to get someone to shoot back and escalate the national conflict.
You have to remember that to a proper Marxist, you have to wreck everything before you can rebuild the alleged paradise, and it is of little concern to them the cost to the nation or anyone in it.
There’s nothing civil about civil war, but there are unknown numbers of foreign agitators among us as well, who are very likely here to instigate and then take advantage of any internal conflict if it starts.
I know. Happy Tuesday!
