If you care anything about your country, you have to be concerned about what has transpired since the 2016 Presidential election, and indeed what happened even before it took place.
In the past, American politics has frequently been a rough and tumble process. The only time that the two primary political parties have come together is when the country was in peril, as was the case on December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001. However, what has occurred since Donald Trump was declared the Republican nominee for President in the summer of 2016 is almost unique in our countries history.
Our Constitutional Republic requires that there is an orderly transition of power after elections. When Abraham Lincoln (R) became our 16th President in 1860, succeeding James Buchanan (D), the country was in great turmoil. Many politicians, particularly Southern Democrats, felt that Lincoln, the first President from the newly formed Republican Party, was illegitimate.
The inflammatory rhetoric which occurred after the election, and prior to Lincoln’s inauguration in January of 1861, boiled over into the secession of the southern states, the forming of the Confederacy, and the disastrous American Civil War, which killed and maimed more Americans than all other wars before or since. That conflict culminated in the assassination of Lincoln by a southern sympathizer only weeks after the wars end.
Through all of the “Reconstruction” period, the “Jim Crow” era, when Democrats regained control of the governments in the southern states, and right up to the “Civil Rights” movement led by people like Dr. Martin Luther King, there still was an orderly transition as control of the Executive Branch of our government passed back and forth between the Democrats and the Republicans. This was true even when the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives for the forty year period from 1954 through 1994. Sadly, that is no longer the case.
When Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 the rules abruptly changed. The assertion that Trump had somehow “stolen” the election was trumpeted by most Democrats, up to, and including the outgoing President, Barack Obama who, in an unprecedented action, remained in Washington, D.C. and established a “Resistance” movement to delegitimize Trump’s Presidency and foil it’s initiatives at every opportunity. These actions have created a toxic atmosphere which pits Americans against each other in a way that has not existed since our Civil War.
Now, Democratic Presidential candidates like Elizabeth Warren are openly advocating the abolition of the Electoral College, a move which would allow just a few populous states to control every Presidential election in the future. With the exception of Texas and Florida, these states are all controlled by the Democrats, and a concerted effort is being made by that party to turn them “Blue” as well.
The current impeachment fiasco will probably not remove President Trump from office, but it certainly will affect the coming election. The mud slinging may sway enough Independents to vote for the Democratic candidate next November. If Trump is denied a second term, the consequences could be disastrous. There is no doubt that a return to the policies of Barack Obama and the current crop of even more radically left Democrats, would in all probability bring us closer to a second Civil War than at any time in the past. This must not be allowed to happen.
Ponder tens of millions of legally armed Americans being told by the Democrats that their Second Amendment rights are null and void. Not by further amending the Constitution, but by actions taken by various state and local authorities and sanctioned by the Federal government. When and if confiscation measures are implemented, turning law abiding Americans into instant criminals simply because they refuse to comply, I fear that civil disobedience on a scale almost unimaginable will occur. Violent confrontations will erupt, and then the fate of our nation will hang on the actions of our law enforcement personnel and our military. Abraham Lincoln quoted from the Bible, “Mark 3:25”, when he stated in an 1858 speech before the Illinois Legislature “A house divided against itself cannot stand”. Barack Obama, with his plan to “Fundamentally Transform America” has led us to the state where we currently find ourselves. We have become not just Americans, proud of our customs, our language and our history, but instead divided into different races, socio-economic groups and special interests. Will it take another Civil War to tear us asunder and allow us to hopefully rebuild the country once again? Only time will tell, but indeed,
A House Divided Against Itself CANNOT Stand!