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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: The Origins Of Our Second Civil War Globalism, the tech boom, illegal immigration, campus radicalism, the new racialism . . . Are they leading us toward an 1861? How, when, and why has the United States now arrived at the brink of a veritable civil war? Almost every cultural and social institution — universities, the public schools, the NFL, the Oscars, the Tonys, the Grammys, late-night television, public restaurants, coffee shops, movies, TV, stand-up comedy — has been not just politicized but also weaponized. Donald Trump’s election was not so much a catalyst for the divide as a manifestation and amplification of the existing schism. We are now nearing a point comparable to 1860, and perhaps past 1968. Left–Right factionalism is increasingly fueled by geography — always history’s force multiplier of civil strife. Red and blue states ensure that locale magnifies differences that were mostly manageable during the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, the Bushes, and Clinton. What has caused the United States to split apart so rapidly? Globalization Globalization had an unfortunate effect of undermining national unity. It created new iconic billionaires in high tech and finance, and their subsidiaries of coastal elites, while hollowing out the muscular jobs largely in the American interior. Ideologies and apologies accumulated to justify the new divide. In a reversal of cause and effect, losers, crazies, clingers, American “East Germans,” and deplorables themselves were blamed for driving industries out of their neighborhoods (as if the characters out of Duck Dynasty or Ax Menturned off potential employers). Or, more charitably to the elites, the muscular classes were too racist, xenophobic, or dense to get with the globalist agenda, and deserved the ostracism and isolation they suffered from the new “world is flat” community. London and New York shared far more cultural affinities than did New York and Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, the naturally progressive, more enlightened, and certainly cooler and hipper transcended their parents’ parochialism and therefore plugged in properly to the global project. And they felt that they were rightly compensated for both their talent and their ideological commitment to building a better post-American, globalized world. One cultural artifact was that as our techies and financiers became rich, as did those who engaged in electric paper across time and space (lawyers, academics, insurers, investors, bankers, bureaucratic managers), the value of muscularity and the trades was deprecated. That was a strange development. After all, prestige cars, kitchen upgrades, gentrified home remodels, and niche food were never more in demand by the new elite. But who exactly laid the tile, put the engine inside the cars, grew the arugula, or put slate on the new hip roof? In this same era, a series of global financial shocks, from the dot-com bust to the more radical 2008 near–financial meltdown, reflected a radical ongoing restructuring in American middle-class life, characterized by stagnant net income, family disintegration, and eroding consumer confidence. No longer were youth so ready to marry in their early twenties, buy a home, and raise a family of four or five. Compensatory ideology made the necessary adjustments to explain the economic doldrums and began to characterize what was impossible first as undesirable and later as near toxic. Pajama Boy sipping hot chocolate in his jammies, and the government-subsidized Life of Julia profile, became our new American Gothic. High Tech Poster Comment: It is unacceptable that unlimited immigration be allowed to continue. It is unacceptable that blacks in some cities and Mexicans in other cities have the legal right to rape our daughters in the high schools. It is unacceptable that illegal aliens be allowed to vote in our elections when $21 trillion went missing from government spending over the last 20 years. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
#1. To: Horse, HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
Every day you hear somebody somewhere ask a question along these lines. The answer is blessedly simple: jewish supremacism. Globalism, he says -- thank the likes of George Soros and Ben Wattenberg. the tech boom -- what kind of names are Zuckerberg, Brin, Page (in the case of Larry). and Schieble -- Steve Jobs' mother? It's on the tip of my tongue. illegal immigration -- no comment needed -- I hope! campus radicalism -- Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Mark Rudd(nitsky) ad nauseam sicced this plague on us. the new racialism -- I assume this term refers to the new awakening among younger generations that "diversity means chasing down the last white person". This healthy "gentile" movement is happening because of kikers, too -- who else is doing the chasing but the Chosen and their nonwhite proxies? Blame jews first, then flesh out the details -- the Occam's razor of our time.
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