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I'm an outsider looking in (in horror mostly) and it really seems that Democrats/liberal elites, or whoever is in charge, are attempting to provoke a response from the majority populace. I agree that it smells the same as other cultural revolutions but I can't shake the feeling they want the majority to fight back. To what end I don't know but they just keep prodding...

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I think things will get hotter this summer, long before November. The extreme rhetoric used by the pro-choice side equates *restrictions on killing unborn babies* with *loss of life* of women. Sort of, if you don't let women kill the unborn babies they don't want, women will want to kill themselves and when they do it will be blood on your hands. Not just when an abortion is botched and two people die.

Babies are hard work. Humans are difficult. But it's horrific that instead of creating a social order in which women are strengthened to complete motherhood, or at least pregnancy, we have a social order that scares the crap out of girls. Telling them: having a baby ends your life!

That's what is at the heart of this, "the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life."

So, wiser people than I have suggest that someday we may look back on legalized abortion with the same horror as we look back on legalized slavery. Not to get in an argument about why we fought the Civil War, but just pointing out that a lot of people died to end a social order built up around the ability of one human to treat another human as not fully human.

Until then, pro-choicers are going to fight like hell because they believe to not let a woman kill her unborn baby is to treat her as ... not fully human.

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A revolution? No such luck. No revolution and no resolution. Orwell had it right. In "1984" he focuses on the ruling class, where the lower echelons have a miserable life and everybody must think alike. I assume the 'proles', who he barely mentions, would represent the vast majority, and they seem to go their own way, largely unmolested by 'big brother.' It could be the Dems and Rinos can hold on to their power, but this won't count for much outside of Washington, where the laws will be observed just enough to stay out of trouble.

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Slightly O/T

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/eu-backs-ukraines-european-dream-putin-says-sanctions-cost-bloc-400bn-warns-fertilizer

In the bizzarro world we live in, its increasingly amazing that it is the unhinged war-mongering madman, Vladimir Putin, who is telling the truth.

I especially agree with his observation regarding US disinformation that "It is clear why they waged this propaganda campaign, what all these spells about 200-to-1 ruble-dollar exchange rates and claims that our economy would collapse were all about. All this was - and remains - a tool in the information warfare, an attempt to put psychological pressure on Russian society,"

I would only add that the information warfare is also an attempt to put psychological pressure on...Americans. I believe Putin would agree.

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The author of this Washington Examiner opinion piece is a former FBI agent, Thomas Baker. He has a book coming out later this year titled The Fall of the FBI.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/has-the-fbi-become-a-threat-to-democracy

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A Month And A Half After Dobbs Leak, FBI Says They Will Investigate Attacks On Pro-Life Groups, Pregnancy CentersA Month And A Half After Dobbs Leak, FBI Says They Will Investigate Attacks On Pro-Life Groups, Pregnancy Centers

https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/17/a-month-and-a-half-after-dobbs-leak-fbi-says-they-will-investigate-attacks-on-pro-life-groups-pregnancy-centers/

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My guess is things are going to be ugly for a while. But a split simply is not viable. In 1861, the seceding states at least looked like a contiguous block (it wasn't perfect, that's how we ended up with the state of West Virginia). Here is a map of the 2020 presidential election, by county. https://brilliantmaps.com/2020-county-election-map/

I like this map because it uses 5 shades of both red and blue to show the strength of the vote. There are only four states that are completely blue--Hawaii, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. I live in Indiana, which has five blue counties. Three of those are dominated by college towns--Purdue, IU, and Notre Dame. The other universities in the state were only able to make their counties lighter red. The other two blue spots are Marion County (Indianapolis) and Lake County (Chicago suburbs).

As you look around the map, you can spot all the major cities. There are a few rural areas that are blue, but not nearly as many as the red ones.

The reason I think a split is not viable is a strategic reality: you have to be able to control the countryside. That was why the British lost in the American Revolution. They could take any city, but they couldn't control the surrounding countryside. The Southern Campaign was the last attempt by the British, and it failed. Cornwallis tried to use his main army and two detached forces to gain control; the battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens wiped out both of his detached forces. Cornwallis barely managed a win at Guilford Courthouse, but after a few more scrapes he headed for the coast at Yorktown, hoping the British fleet could bail him out--but the French fleet and Washington's army got there first.

Even in modern warfare, controlling the countryside is still an issue. It was a major problem in Vietnam, and even with satellites and drones, it was still a problem in Afghanistan!

Yes, modern cities have a lot of the population. That is an advantage in elections; it will be a serious disadvantage in a civil war. All of those city dwellers will expect to have their electricity stay on, their furnaces to have gas and oil, and their grocery stores to have food. Whoever controls the countryside can cut a lot--or even most--of that off. A lot of the power plants are outside the city limits--California gets over 20% of their electricity from out of state! Most food is trucked in from outside the city--most grocery stores don't have much more than a 3-day supply on hand. How much food do they grow within the city limits of NYC or Washington DC?

Can they do a Berlin-style airlift? Doing that for one city in 1947 was one thing; doing it for 30 or 40 cities is not nearly as possible (especially in a shooting war!).

So things could get ugly for a while, but the long-term result is already knowable. How long it will take for the hard left to face reality is what we will have to see.

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I’m more concerned about the fact that there has been no expression of outrage from the Republicans! It seems all we hear is the deafening roar of silence. The plight of the January 6 political prisoners, the violent tactics of BLM, the violence against pro-life groups, the weaponizing of all manner of government agencies, the apparent acceptance of political assassination as a means to an end and the clearly corrupt nature of the administration of Justice doesn’t seem to bother the Republicans much at all. Almost seems like they might be complicit in whatever is afoot, or could just be another crazy conspiracy theory. But then, there’s that persistent problem with the smell test.

I wholeheartedly agree, this November will be the time to watch closely. All bets are off as to the way things will play out.

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The double standard on protests is just wrong. As well as on Voter Fraud.

I am still LIVID over what happened after the Trump Rally in San Jose, CA.

People assaulted, police stood down and seems to have deliberately directed people through protesters. Same thing seemed to have happened at Charlottesville.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/violence-breaks-trump-rally-san-jose-protesters-hurl/story?id=39576437

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/03/ugly-bloody-scenes-in-san-jose-as-protesters-attack-trump-supporters-outside-rally/

End result was the city issued an apology.

https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-lawsuit-over-violent-donald-trump-rally-settled/

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With all the video surveillance in place seemingly everywhere in cities and towns, the fact that so far none of these arsonists have been arrested (to my knowledge) is unbelievable. Our partisan FBI may not be looking for them, but one would think the local authorities would be collecting video to identify suspects.

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