https://www.theepochtimes.com/would-the-indictment-of-donald-trump-lead-to-civil-war_4634053.htmlWould the Indictment of Donald Trump Lead to Civil War?by Roger L. Simon
July 31, 2022
NOTE: When reading articles at The Epoch Times, DISABLE JAVASCRIPT in your browser. This can be done with the click of the mouse using free add-ons/extensions.Excerpts:Midway through viewing The Epoch Times’ excellent documentary about Jan. 6, I started wondering—and not for the first time—whether we are on the brink of civil war and if an indictment of Donald Trump by Attorney General Merrick Garland would take us over that brink.
Consciously or unconsciously, that appears to be the ultimate goal of the committee, especially now that it’s being reported that few are paying close attention to it. Such an act would clearly garner that attention, to say the least, in a divided land where the former president has in the vicinity of 100 million supporters, many of them adamant.
It also would pretty much erase the word unconsciously from the previous paragraph, barely there in the first place.
Michael Anton, of “The Flight 93 Election” fame, wrote just a few days ago in another epochal essay, “They Can’t Let Him Back,” that begins, “The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again.”
He also writes, “Anti-Trump hysteria, in the final analysis, is not about Trump.”
Indeed. This hysteria is about the preservation of a system almost as far from our envisioned original democratic republic as you could go and heading further off, a kind of bureaucratic oligarchy commonly called the administrative state. It’s ultimately about preserving thousands, probably hundreds of thousands and possibly millions, of lifetime ruling-class jobs, high and low, or jobs related to them or depending on them.
The vast majority of these jobs, as many already and an increasing number know, shouldn’t exist. They do nothing to enhance the life of the average citizen and in many, if not most, cases make it worse.
You might even call it Rule-by-Kafka, especially since the advent of COVID-19, the Czech genius having given us the best descriptions of our current existence in works such as “The Trial” and more specifically “The Metamorphosis,” when a man awakens to find he has become a cockroach.
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Perhaps it’s time to give an American separation—seceding intelligently—more serious thought, heartbreaking as it is to contemplate. Maybe if we separate, we can learn to live together, after a time anyway. The Israelis and the Arab world are edging closer together. (Yes, they have a common enemy in Iran, but still …)
In any case, Civil War II is horrifying to contemplate, with potentially more corpses than the first time around, when an estimated 620,000 men died. That was out of a paltry 19.2 million population. We are currently well over 300 million. Do the math—and add women who would now more likely be participants—and the numbers are pretty mortifying to calculate.
Continuing to think the unthinkable, doing that Kahn thing, unfortunately also encompasses considering the final result, if we are to be in any way complete.
Pondering this while driving across Middle Tennessee the other day to visit a friend who lives in a rural area, gazing out at the endless farms with the strong men and women working the land—we can call them unabashedly The Patriots—I knew they would win in the end, bitter as it would be. They are godly, they are brave, they would persevere, and they are already armed and know well how to use those weapons.
After all, if we are but Kafka’s cockroach, it’s worth remembering cockroaches have been around for at least 300 million years and are showing no signs of extinction.
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