{"id":44262,"date":"2019-03-06T16:51:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T21:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44262"},"modified":"2019-03-06T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T21:51:54","slug":"american-civil-war-2-us-media-will-have-only-itself-to-blame-if-all-hell-breaks-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44262","title":{"rendered":"American Civil War 2: US media will have only itself to blame if all hell breaks loose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

American Civil War 2: US media will have only itself to blame if all hell breaks loose<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a9 Getty Images \/ Melanie Stetson Freeman \/ The Christian Science Monitor <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time in years, the drumbeat of civil war has become audible across the United States. The nation looks destined to repeat history thanks to a media that is no longer able to objectively perform its job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The predominantly left-leaning<\/a> US media has just entered its third consecutive year of open warfare against Donald Trump. This non-stop assault risks aggravating political passions to the point where \u2018Trump Derangement Syndrome\u2019 snowballs into something completely beyond our ability to control. Like full-blown Civil War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the weekend, the Washington Post, one of most prominent serial producers of partisan agitation, published<\/a> an article entitled, \u2018In America, talk turns to something unspoken for 150 years: Civil War\u2019. The piece, which deftly places Democrats above the fray, opens with the following whiff of grapeshot:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith the report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III reportedly nearly complete, impeachment talk in the air and the 2020 presidential election ramping up \u2026 there\u2019s talk of violence, mayhem and, increasingly, civil war,\u201d<\/em> the Bezos-owned paper forewarned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a level of audacity and self-righteousness that has become a trademark of the Left, not once did the article float the possibility that just maybe the mainstream media is complicit in the ongoing deterioration of political discourse, or that the Democrats are just as much to blame as the Republicans for the political fallout that now presents a grave risk to the Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As many knowledgeable Americans will openly admit, battle lines have been drawn across the political and cultural frontier. This division is perhaps most conspicuous on social media, where friends and family who disagree with our political worldview get the \u2018nuke option\u2019 and are effortlessly vanquished (\u2018unfriended\u2019) with the push of a button. This is a worrying development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American Civil War 2: US media will have only itself to blame if all hell breaks loose \u00a9 Getty Images \/ Melanie Stetson Freeman \/ The Christian Science Monitor  For the first time in years, the drumbeat of civil war has become audible across the United States. The nation looks destined to repeat history thanks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[920,15947,8114,827],"class_list":["post-44262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-civil-war","tag-robert-bridge","tag-rt-news","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44263,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44262\/revisions\/44263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}