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 In his article at Townhall.com entitled Can We Get Out of This Without a Civil War? Kurt Schlichter explains his purpose in writing his latest book: American Apocalypse: The Second American Civil War. He is at pains to tell us that he does not want this to happen, and indeed he is writing his book as a warning. Schlichter has seen what a country in conflict with itself looks like up close and personal. It is not pretty. And he points out that for those on the right who think that we can just go back to being the America we were, the one we grew up in, that will not happen. America will be forever changed. The only way we can achieve something like the America we grew up in is through Constitutional means, and forcing the Left to follow it too.

Schlichter starts by laying out what he believes to be the current situation in which we find ourselves.

America is in crisis, with the left battling the ascendant right, a clash of visions between a socialist nightmare in which America becomes either a feudal, feral combination of California and a communist college campus or we re-make it into something like the glorious, golden country it once was. How does all this end? Leftists in America— and the Democrats are a leftist party that is eagerly embracing admitted communists— seem to be under the impression that normal patriotic Americans have no right to engage in their own self-governance. That’s unsustainable. We’re not giving up our self-determination. The question is whether America resolves this peacefully, as we should, or whether the Democrats spark another civil war, something I write about in my new novel American Apocalypse: The Second American Civil War, released on July 17th.

It’s time to face the question forthrightly. After all, the last time we patriots tried to deprive Democrats of their servile class, they chose war. We’re depriving them of another now, and they are losing their minds. Right now, they are choosing obstruction, having halfwit left-wing federal judges— they weren’t confirming them because they were legal geniuses— essentially declare that anything Donald Trump does is unlawful. Legally speaking, his actions are not unlawful. They are not even close to being unlawful, and the Supreme Court has been swatting these judicial ankle-biters down left and right. But there are hints that leftist frustration at not being able to force us to submit via lawfare is pushing them toward violence. We know because they say so. The Democrat base is demanding more radicalism in the face of their political losses. We’ve seen the polls that say over half of them think it’s morally OK to murder the president. Their street thug catspaws are shooting at cops enforcing our democratically enacted immigration laws, as well as murdering citizens.

Schlichter paints paragraph after paragraph of the uncivil way that the Left treats normal Americans and their elected representatives. They do not fight by the rules, and in fact change the rules to gain a short term political advantage.  The Democrats (read socialists/Marxists/Communists) encourage radical activism through their speech which stays just this side of the line, while their donors maintain paid protestors and looters who can be bussed into any location, complete with professionally made signs, piles of bricks stockpiled in place, gas masks and bail money already available along with a full command and control organization. The purpose of these paid protestors is to provoke a reaction that can be used to spark a revolution. The Left is getting more and more desperate as we keep stacking up wins.

The question is whether there will be a next time – will there be violence to resolve this seemingly resolvable status quo? Will it be low-grade terrorism? Will there be another civil war? That’s not a crazy question. It’s sadly not insane to talk about it anymore. It might’ve been whacko 20 years ago, but things have changed. The Democrats not only embrace a platform that despises America, but they despise Americans and consider them morally unfit and unworthy of having a voice in their own government. You and I are not human to them. We’re kulaks, wreckers and looters, literal Nazis, and therefore unworthy not only of the right to participate in our own governance but of basic civil rights like the right to speak freely, to worship freely, and, heaven forbid, to own guns – and you should most definitely buy guns and ammunition to lawfully defend yourself, your family, your community, and your Constitution.

The leftists don’t have power now, but they may have power in the future. Things change. Voters can be stupid – I know because I sometimes live in California. But there’s a very real possibility that a combination of their arrogance, stupidity, and downright evil will lead to the kind of catastrophe that I write about in American Apocalypse. I’m already prepared for the stupid people who will fulminate that by writing this book, I somehow want our country to tear itself apart. Those people are liars. I saw a country that tore itself apart when I was stationed in Kosovo, and I’m desperate to show that violence is not the answer; the Constitution is. I’m not going let the left and their garbage fellow travelers stop me from warning about what the left intends to do – American Apocalypse includes a bitter, femmy blurb from Bill Kristol regarding the People’s Republic books as a badge of honor.

Some of us, in our frustration, are too cavalier about the consequences of civil conflict. We need to understand that even if our side wins, which I think it would for various reasons that American Apocalypse describes, we’re not going to emerge on the other side with anything like the America we grew up with. It’s going to be poorer and authoritarian. It can’t be otherwise. You can’t have millions of dead – make no mistake, a real civil war, as opposed to the kind of Weathermen/SLA low-key insurgency of 50 years ago – would destroy the infrastructure and systems that keep people alive. You would see death and destruction on a scale that would boggle your imagination, and it should turn your stomach.

I have not seen, up close and personal, what happens in civil wars. But as a college student in ROTC, I studied the American Civil War, and I came away then with an aversion to it. I don't want a civil war, but I recognize that I and others may not have a choice.  War may be thrust on us.  I have since read about other civil wars. Schlichter is absolutely correct that the non-combatant population would suffer immensely. People who don't deal with such things do not know the chain of things that make their daily power a reality, their water systems, sewage systems, communications and so forth. They take them for granted, but these systems will all be destroyed in the process of a civil war. Just getting food will become a hit or miss, usually the latter, thing. In one spot in his book a character estimates the number at 50 million dead. I would think it would be closer to 100 million dead from disease and starvation.

Some may ask "why can't we go back to the way it was?" The answer lies in the level of anger that a civil war would necessitate. Right now, we are frustrated with idiot judges and their nation-wide injunctions attempting to thwart the will of the people. We are mad at the paid for street thugs obstructing ICE and other law enforcement. We even hold a cold fury at the so-called "journalist" and "historians" and "experts" who distort the truth and gas light us with lies and half-truths and try to defend the indefensible. Most of us recognize that these are useful idiots to the left, and those who read history know what happens to useful idiots who have lost their usefulness. We want these people to repent. But once a civil war starts in earnest, all bets are off. The winning side will be full of righteous anger. When we defeat them, we cannot allow them to just return to business as usual as we did the last time. We will have to either banish them or hold Nuremburg style trials and execute them. As unpleasant as it may be, that will be necessary.

I pre-ordered the book from Amazon and it arrived on the 17th. I have read several chapters so far, and if the rest of it is like those first chapters, it is well worth your money and time. I suggest you read it as well.  Oh, and pray for the United States of America.  She will need much grace.  One more thing, buy guns and ammo.  We may need them.