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in which @MrPrudentialist documents a particularly nasty example of
the progs baiting a new civil war

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the title: 100%
the progs won't stop until you follow their ever-changing rules to the T.

a good point about *language manipulation*, and dripping contempt

worth noting how calls for unity by the ruling elite are calls to *obey*.
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let's disagree a bit why my esteemed colleague:

>there's been a growing sentiments
>for some kind of national separation

with the blue tribe having a death grip on the comms and on the narrative-making, i surmise the sentiment is being *pumped* rather than grown organically.
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my view:

the progs are consciously *baiting* for another civil war, or any regular violence.

the progs, having consolidated political and narrative-making power as "we the victims", calculated to benefit from being "attacked" - and to keep retaliating for decades.
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why would certain do-nothing "conservative" politicians like "national divorce"?

to grab holds of power of a small, but now their own, region. much easier than doing the effort of getting to the top of federal power structure - and then undoing decades of prog legislation.
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>irreconcilable differences

nobody has mandate to reconcile everybody on everything. and the federal gov the least of anybody.

keep your nose to the interstate commerce, fed bois, not local culture.
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i hereby coin the term of "internal colonialism" - the practice of federal gov sending in cultural shock troopers to adjust culture & economics of its own territories.

i coin the term of "internal colonialism" to vehemently reject it: it's explicitly out of DC's purview.
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the media class giveth us a false dichotomy: "cultural singularity or civil war"

political subjugation? bloody fratricide?

what a choice! why was this country created like that? who put americans in this misery?
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let us dust off the pre-progressive history books and political treatises on how the country was set up:

an union of the states, for the states. the federal government having no interest nor connection to local cultures, and even less to day-to-day goings of the citizens.
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Prudentialist notes, by quoting, the democratic-dictatorship program of the author:

"overthrow of U.S. senate"
"and the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court"

we have discussed that problem in the past:
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and also discussed in broader context here:

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Prudentialist observes, excellently, "he is aware of the lacking political energy among the blue-staters to take up arms".

good point!

note that historically US lost wars & conflicts solely by narrative being turned internally to "we are losing", by the narrative-makers.
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that the right thinks abt "national divorce" stems IMO largely from the problem of do-nothing "conservative" politicians.

they refuse to unwind progressive policies. they refuse to properly prosecute bureaucrats implementing progressivism against written laws and regulations
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Prudentialist notes several examples of progs in bureaucratic power acting in unison to raise pressure and bait civil war or violence.

again, this is to their calculation of "we will be best off under the guise of victimhood"
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"this short opinion piece details the desire to keep *you* subjugated"

"the desire to subjugate, dominate, and humiliate
"all aspects of you and your children's lives" 🔥
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recommend:

unrelenting pressure on the gov and on the "conservative" politicians: unwind union-wide progressive policies. boldly and with glee unwind them and proclaim improvement for the people.

no votes for a do-nothing politician.

reject false dichotomies.
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PS:
curious *why* the progs so very much depend on the *central* government being the one to implement progressive policies?

in short, it's about control of the borders - and of issuance of currency - and of military spending. but that's for another day - follow me :-)

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Let's read carefully and see where this mistake gets him.

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