Scenario: Second American Civil War
Predicting
anything, including a possible new civil war in America is fraught with
difficulties.
The obvious
difficulty is the timing. Another difficulty is just what will happen,
including things like “guessed at” maps and boundaries.
There are
many links on this subject, too. So this link is just one of them.
Last is the
usual wild card, like a mother nature type event happening, like the
Yellowstone caldera letting go, and just what does that do to affect America’s
recovery and future.
I
suspect many people alive today won’t
make it in the long run, either. What a shame if that should happen. Even if we
have too many people, there are better ways to address that problem than death,
or even like China did trying to institute a one child rule. Now some
bureaucrat there even wants to try cap the total population of the capitol of
that Nation. The old line applies, “good initiative, poor judgment”.
And it
should be obvious to most that the American nation is truly divided in so many
ways, and also like historically normal.
A United States of America (USA) is truly a unique combination in world
history, and the slow forming of a new world USA “tribe” is worth developing in
the long run. It can be said to be a kind of win-win Country. I still call it a
melting pot, even thought the more modern expression (fad if you will) is “cultural
diversity”.
And never
forgot the long term effects, either. Even where I live in east Tennessee the
first American Civil War never came here, though bandits in the guise of being
guerillas did operate; and so even in 2015 people still fly the flags of
rebellion by the local Interstate road. And the people who do this were
obviously not alive back then, but still have strong emotions and thoughts
about this subject taught to them by their ancestors.
Unfortunately,
those more interested in short term gains, mostly personal aggrandizement,
still have powerful interests that support them these days. History abounds
with these types, too. Yet, I am old enough to remember the John F. Kennedy
statement during an inauguration of his that went something like “ask not what
your Country can do for you, but what can you do for your Country”. Now while
that expression flies into the face of Family and friends issues,
never-the-less that idea most likely will prey on the minds of most moral
people.
So what
might a second American civil war mean to you? I don’t know and don’t care to
try to suggest what it might mean to you, and your own conduct. After all, the
first American Civil War divided up Families and even West Point, so I can
expect much the same to happen again, if it even comes to it. I myself still prefer the vote as a way to
change things under an American system that we the people have already developed
over 200 years. That includes a Constitution that we take oaths to support,
vice oaths to support whoever is alive and politically in charge at the time. That includes the idea of the law equally
applying to all of us, rich, poor, leaders, followers, hard workers and lazy
people. Said another way, nobody is above the law. Said even another way, we in the new world
USA are all equal. Said another way, gaining political advantage is at best a
short term gain, but people in present charge just never seem to learn that.
Hence, the threat of a civil war if the vote is taken away.
I am
personally repulsed when I hear my present Federal President say “that’s the
right thing to do”. Well, I am confident
that is the “right thing to do according to his beliefs”, but we elected him to
represent us, and not himself. There are other courses of action, too.
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