Fred said:
“I think we have a date and a showdown with socialism. One way or another we are going to have this fight within our country – and we’d better hope it remains only a fight at the level of electoral politics and that the people are wise enough to change their minds as experience compels.”
This brings to mind Tom Jefferson’s quote:
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
There’s a relevant quote from Spengler based upon the U.S. Civil War:
“In all, one-quarter of military age Southern manhood died in the field, by far the greatest sacrifice ever offered up by a modern nation in war. General W T Sherman, the scourge of the South, explained why this would occur in advance. There existed 300,000 fanatics in the South who knew nothing but hunting, drinking, gambling and dueling, a class who benefited from slavery and would rather die than work for a living. To end the war, Sherman stated on numerous occasions these 300,000 had to be killed. Evidently Sherman was right. For all the wasteful slaughter of the last 18 months of the war, Southern commander Lee barely could persuade his men to surrender in April 1865. The Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, called for guerilla war to continue, and Lee’s staff wanted to keep fighting. Lee barely avoided a drawn-out irregular war.”
The moonbat problem in the United States is a growing one. Hopefully the moonbats will not elect their President in this election cycle. Unfortunately this disaster will probably happen in the next 12 years (demographics will force it). We might get lucky and the moonbat’s President will be a repeat of Jimmy Carter, i.e. the economy is damaged, only a few hundred people get killed, there is some national humilation, etc. Unfortunately the world has gotten much more brittle since Jimmy Carter’s time. There are more people chasing fewer natural resources, the Americans are under a mountain of debt due to living beyond our means, more non-Americans expect a bigger piece of the economic pie, Islamic fascists and nuclear proliferation remains a threat, etc.
How long before something breaks and we find that having a significant fraction of our population as moonbats is no longer an option? I wonder if there is anyway we can do to dodge this bullet?
