The New American Civil War
Though many will not have noticed it, and an even larger number would have noticed but would not want to concede it, there's a New American Civil War being waged right now, and ferociously, though so far not involving the use of weaponry such as firearms, except when police get involved or in the scattered acts of hate groups. This battle is not confined largely to one region, as was the old conflict between the blues and the grays of the early 1860's. Instead it is being fought on a wide range of fronts.
This time the two opposing forces are Progressives and Regressives, but as they have yet to adopt distinctive uniforms, they can't be easily seen. But a good look at the Democratic and Republican parties helps, as does hearing the strident but stifled outcries for third parties.
I date this War as having started in 1968, when it became clear that the Civil Rights Movement had resulted in changes that threatened to become permanent, and that has become the muffled but very real underlying theme of the fighting ever since.
That's why those who were the targets, or if I can be so bold as to say, though many have fought hard to make the term unfashionable, the victims of Jim Crow are in the best position to see this War in its clearest outlines ...that is, those who are industrious and conscious enough to use their brains for things other than incessant dancing and singing and drooling over ballgames.
The year 1968, when both M. L. King Jr. and R. Kennedy were shot dead, following J. Kennedy's death by the same means five years earlier, was the apogee of a series of assassinations of prominent progressive political leaders, and those events were one of the declarations of that War.
Another was the beginning of the defections of prominent Southern demagogues from the Democratic Party. They found a home in the Republican Party, and that, along with the subsequent election of numerous new figures like them, marked the rising success of that party. The hidden agenda of the Republicans, to prevent any more advances by Rainbows (i.e. "blacks") while rolling back the changes that had already been made, is the main cause of that success -- the dirty big secret that will never be admitted by the American Bulk, so steeped are they in the fashion of refusing to call things what they really are -- a tactic that the Regressives have found to be especially useful ever since the days of R. Reagan.
Prior to 1968, when the Nation was more unified, and the North went along with the obscene legal restraints on persons who were "guilty" only of having ancestors who had been slaves from Africa -- repressions that were practiced openly in the South -- Progressives and Regressives could be found in both parties. Since then, however, the people that take the announced ideals of the U.S. seriously have been confined largely to the Democrats, while those who don't are somewhere else.
This time the two opposing forces are Progressives and Regressives, but as they have yet to adopt distinctive uniforms, they can't be easily seen. But a good look at the Democratic and Republican parties helps, as does hearing the strident but stifled outcries for third parties.
I date this War as having started in 1968, when it became clear that the Civil Rights Movement had resulted in changes that threatened to become permanent, and that has become the muffled but very real underlying theme of the fighting ever since.
That's why those who were the targets, or if I can be so bold as to say, though many have fought hard to make the term unfashionable, the victims of Jim Crow are in the best position to see this War in its clearest outlines ...that is, those who are industrious and conscious enough to use their brains for things other than incessant dancing and singing and drooling over ballgames.
The year 1968, when both M. L. King Jr. and R. Kennedy were shot dead, following J. Kennedy's death by the same means five years earlier, was the apogee of a series of assassinations of prominent progressive political leaders, and those events were one of the declarations of that War.
Another was the beginning of the defections of prominent Southern demagogues from the Democratic Party. They found a home in the Republican Party, and that, along with the subsequent election of numerous new figures like them, marked the rising success of that party. The hidden agenda of the Republicans, to prevent any more advances by Rainbows (i.e. "blacks") while rolling back the changes that had already been made, is the main cause of that success -- the dirty big secret that will never be admitted by the American Bulk, so steeped are they in the fashion of refusing to call things what they really are -- a tactic that the Regressives have found to be especially useful ever since the days of R. Reagan.
Prior to 1968, when the Nation was more unified, and the North went along with the obscene legal restraints on persons who were "guilty" only of having ancestors who had been slaves from Africa -- repressions that were practiced openly in the South -- Progressives and Regressives could be found in both parties. Since then, however, the people that take the announced ideals of the U.S. seriously have been confined largely to the Democrats, while those who don't are somewhere else.
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