{"id":36573,"date":"2018-08-08T18:55:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T23:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36573"},"modified":"2018-08-08T18:55:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T23:55:45","slug":"civil-war-ii-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36573","title":{"rendered":"Civil War II Coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemblock\">\n<h3 class=\"head\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/civil-war-ii-coming\/\">Civil War II Coming?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"subhead\"><strong>It Won\u2019t Be a Race War, Two Recent Dystopian Novels Tell Us<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"contents-holder\" class=\"entry\">\n<div class=\"page-thumb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-page-thumbsize wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unzcloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shutterstock_124114384-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_124114384\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/div>\n<section class=\"open\">\n<div class=\"section-holder\">\n<p id=\"p_1_1\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">When we get tired of blowing up Muslims for Israel, will we turn on ourselves?<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_2\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Scenarios for a second American Civil War have existed ever since the first one ended. Some hyperbolists called Reconstruction the Second Civil War. Alt-history novelists have imagined <a title=\"http:\/\/gutenberg.net.au\/ebooks03\/0301001h.html\" href=\"http:\/\/gutenberg.net.au\/ebooks03\/0301001h.html\">the ascension of Huey Long<\/a> or <a title=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fuzzy-Dice-Paul-Filippo\/dp\/1604598905\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fuzzy-Dice-Paul-Filippo\/dp\/1604598905\">George McGovern<\/a> to the presidency as Civil War II trigger. The real-life (?!) ascension of Trump has inspired similar fantasies, leading <a title=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2018\/03\/12\/why-democrats-would-lose-the-second-civil-war-too-n2459833\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2018\/03\/12\/why-democrats-would-lose-the-second-civil-war-too-n2459833\">red state partisans to gleefully thump their chests and imagine how easy and fun it would be to take San Francisco<\/a>\u2014a fantasy that <a title=\"http:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/news\/conservative-writer-calls-for-second-american-civil-war-citing-s-f\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/news\/conservative-writer-calls-for-second-american-civil-war-citing-s-f\/\">triggers the hell out of the SF-based blue staters<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_3\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">How might civil unrest spill over into civil war? One common scenario is <i>race war<\/i>. The late Charles Manson, we are told, staged his killer-hippie mass knifings because he thought the Beatles were sending him secret orders to start a black-vs. white apocalypse. Obviously Manson must have been taking some really, REALLY bad acid while playing Beatles records backward in hopes of hearing John sneering \u201cPaul is dead\u201d\u2014then suddenly grokked that the <i>White Album<\/i>, whose mysterious title does not appear on the record and makes no sense anyway, is really about white power! Manson lieutenant Tex Watkins explained: \u201cand what it (the song \u2018Helter Skelter\u2019) meant was the Negros were going to come down and rip the cities all apart\u2026Before Helter Skelter came along, all Charlie cared about was orgies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_4\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Though Manson was a raving nut, his vision of race war was inspired by contemporary reality. Indeed, while the hippies carried on with their orgies, \u201cthe Negros\u201d did rip cities apart. Even before the Deep State murdered Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., blacks in New Jersey, Detroit, Minneapolis, and many other cities had been tearing things up and burning neighborhoods down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"adv-unit alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1844672859\/?tag=unco037-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51cYQB%2BGClL.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil War II Coming? It Won\u2019t Be a Race War, Two Recent Dystopian Novels Tell Us When we get tired of blowing up Muslims for Israel, will we turn on ourselves? Scenarios for a second American Civil War have existed ever since the first one ended. Some hyperbolists called Reconstruction the Second Civil War. 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