SIMPLE MINDED

Guest Post by Ol’ Remus

From time to time I’m called simple minded. I take it as a compliment and thank my accuser for noticing. Few things are as complicated as they’re made out to be. Examples: before ObamaCare there was no ObamaCare. Duh. It made things worse. Repeal it and make things better instantly.

Nullify and denounce every federal, state and municipal gun control act, law and regulation ever passed, including the commerce clause stuff. The Constitution prohibits government from interfering, in any way, with our right to keep and bear arms. So stop doing it.

And illegal aliens. They have to go. It’s the law. Don’t like it? Change the law. Until then it’s the will of the people, duly enacted. Either enforce it or stop saying ‘representative democracy’ and ‘rule of law’. => Insert “it’s not that simple” and pictures of baby seals here <=.

And why is it a routine winter snowstorm can cross the whole country unremarked until it reaches the east coast, then it becomes a blizzard emergency with a name and ’round-the-clock national breaking news?

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Ronbo at Freedom Fighter’s Journal says, in this comment at Crusader Rabbit responding to an opinion I expressed in Woodpile Report:

The pot is boiling and recent events in Washington D.C. are almost a mirror image of what happened there in the spring of 1861, when pro-Confederate elements inside the federal government attempted to sabotage the new Lincoln Administration.

And do we not have in the person of Barack Obama a new rebel president of a rival republic? Do we not see secession being seriously discussed in Leftist dominated California? Do we not hear millions of Leftist say, “Trump is not my president.”

I predict soon they will say, “The United States of America is not my country.”

What will happen next? If history is a teacher the guns of opposing sides will begin a dialogue.

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Mr. Barbour is a retired Army NCO with combat experience of the kind that can get you killed, when it comes to war and the politics of war he knows his stuff. His premise is sound , his conclusion compelling and widely shared .

Mr. Barbour noted my reluctance to call the coming debacle a civil war. Fair enough, but I have my reason. The oft-cited parallels appear to, and perhaps are meant to, conjure up “the” civil war except without the cavalry and Parrott twenty pounders. Alas, there have been more substantial changes in the hundred and fifty years since The Unpleasantness.

The civil war of the 1860s was geographically defined, its manifestos canonical, the armies Napoleonic, the front was bounded and orderly, gallantry and honor were valued if not always practiced. All in all, a classy affair as wars go. Contemporary civil wars are multi-cornered murderous brawls between partisan militias. Added to this are armed opportunists and the outright deranged. Front lines appear and disappear like summer squalls, alliances shift by the day, high-minded principles devolve into homicidal savagery while everyday life drifts into destitution and universal hunger.

“Everywhere and nowhere” is an expression often used by partisans. Such unrelenting fear, added to general deprivation, can topple the mental stability of a whole populace. The slave labor camps of the last century depended on reducing their inmates to just this sort of haggard, fearful zombies. When partisan wars end, almost always by exhaustion, such a people are poor makings for the future republic.

You’ll recall Lee was urged to transform the Confederate army into a guerilla outfit and continue the war rather than surrender to Grant at Appomattox. He declined. The war had its raiders and marauders and the march to the sea, he knew such warfare and was repelled by it.

In today’s USA there are too many players for some guy in the hills—me, to pick one at random—to keep track of, much less figure out who’s allied with who, all the hows and whys, and so forth. It suffices to be situationally aware at the local level, ready to repel invaders and prepared enough to outlast the calamity.