Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Is America Heading For a Civil War?

The Bible says, "A nation divided against itself will not stand."  So how long can America keep going when Democrats are comparing Trump supporters to Nazis?  Once a large portion of Americans believe that the other half are Nazis, how long will it be before they feel justified in killing those Nazis?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kirstjen Nielsen experiences at restaurants suggest a 'soft' civil war is well underway. It will get worse unless we learn to stop hating each other.

The other day, author Tom Ricks asked whether we’re heading toward a civil war. "I don’t believe we’re to Kansas of the 1850s yet. But we seem to be lurching ... in that direction,” he wrote.

Ricks was commenting on “What Democratic rage would look like,” a Bloomberg opinion column that quotes political scientist Thomas Schaller as saying, "I think we're at the beginning of a soft civil war. ... I don't know if the country gets out of it whole."

That sounds pretty serious. The column by Francis Wilkinson presents a catalog of things Democrats are mad about — from the existence of the electoral college to Trump’s “propaganda apparatus” — and predicts that if Democrats lose the midterm elections, there will be hell to pay. (And Republicans, you know, could make a similar list of their own complaints.)

“I don't know exactly what that would look like," Wilkinson writes. "But liberals have a great deal of cultural, academic and economic heft, stretching from Hollywood to Harvard. Just this week, someHollywood powerhouses flirted with leveraging their clout against the Trumpist Fox News. There are endless variations on such a power play. If Democrats opt to use their power more aggressively — breaking rules — Schaller's soft civil war hardly seems unlikely.”

The civil war is already starting
Well, actually this sort of thing seems to be well underway. Hollywood has basically turned its products, and its award shows, into showcases for "the resistance." Americans are already sorting themselves into communities that are predominantly red or blue. And in heavily blue Washington, D.C., Trump staffers find that a lot of people don’t want to date them because of their politics.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was even kicked out of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, because the owner and employees disliked her politics. This seems like a small thing, but it would have been largely unthinkable a generation ago.

And, in a somewhat less “soft” manifestation, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was bullied out of a restaurant by an angry anti-Trump mob, and a similar mob also showed up outside of her home.

Here;  https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/06/25/sanders-nielsen-incidents-suggest-new-us-civil-war-underway-column/729141002/?utm_source=The+Daily+Article&utm_campaign=8cec0991b1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_06_09_54_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_51f776a552-8cec0991b1-273937721&mc_cid=8cec0991b1&mc_eid=30ce4dd16f

And what do you suppose would make Americans stop hating each other?  The Bible is clear that as the Last Days progress we can only expect more hatred, violence and animosity.  As Americans turn away from the fear of The Lord and reject his Word...the love of most will grow cold.

Thankfully, we know how the story all ends...and Jesus and His followers all win in the end....but LOTS and LOTS of blood will flow before Christ comes to set up his Kingdom on earth.

How do I know?  Because the Bible tells me so.

Hat tip to James L.


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