Civil War in America, 21st Century Style

Marty McBride

November 13, 2016 

 

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The signs are clear, but recognition is slow to come. The United States of America is once again engaged in a Civil War among its citizenry, but it isn’t recognized as a War because the death toll isn’t what it was during the Civil War of the 1860s. The signs are there, but The Establishment that currently has a firm grip on the power needed to rule the United States Government does not want us to see those signs and it is not willing to acknowledge this War, likely because they are what sparked it in the first place.

The Establishment

What exactly is The Establishment? The Establishment is the group of career politicians and their dedicated followers that control the Political Parties of the United States. The Establishment represents itself and its own interests at the expense of We the People. The Establishment builds war chests by soliciting funds from people and organizations that don’t represent the people, We the People, that The Establishment claims it represents during General Election campaigns.

Regardless how many of us feel about the outcome of the 2016 General Election, the campaigns of both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders deserve to be recognized for exposing a series of undemocratic policies held in place by both the Republican and Democratic Establishments. On the Democratic side, the concept of the Super Delegate gained widespread attention and consternation. Super Delegates are the Democratic Establishment’s trump card (no pun intended) for overriding the people of the Democratic Party if the people try to choose a candidate that isn’t supported by The Establishment. The implementation of that strategy became blatantly obvious when Democratic National Committee e-mail messages were exposed that specifically discussed The Establishment’s favoritism of Hillary Clinton over Sanders.

On the Republican side, as Trump began to emerge as the front runner among the Republican Party members, the Republican Establishment overtly scrambled in an attempt to move the members away from this candidate The Establishment couldn’t control. The more The Establishment pushed, the harder the members pushed back. Even the media got involved in the effort to stop Trump from becoming President. However, all the anti-Trump strategies backfired because We the People fought increasingly harder against every attempt by The Establishment and the media to manipulate our vote, and the manipulators appeared dumbfounded by the unanticipated impact their actions were having on the voters. Or, were they?

Because the Democratic Establishment decided early in the Election Cycle which candidate it was going to support, the campaign of Establishment outsider Sanders was successfully crushed following an unexpected hard-fought battle from his grass-roots movement within the Party. The Republican Establishment, on the other side of the aisle, however, provided its membership with seventeen different candidates to choose from. This turned into a strategic blunder that allowed a non-Establishment candidate to be selected by Party members as the Party’s flag bearer.

As the 2016 Election Season matured, a need arose for a viable Third Party candidate for President that could offer a third alternative to voters who were crying out for a better option than what the Democratic and Republican Parties were offering. However, as the Presidential Debates approached, The Democratic and Republican Establishments colluded with each other, along with the national media, to ensure no Third Party candidate could emerge. Although there were two Third Party campaigns that worked to obtain enough ballot access to theoretically win the 270 votes needed from the Electoral College, The Establishment successfully blocked access to the Presidential Debates for those Third Party candidates, thus preventing We the People from getting to know those candidates well enough to consider them viable alternatives to Trump and Clinton.

Although the successful campaign of Donald Trump delivered a major blow to The Establishment, both Houses of Congress escaped the scrutiny of We the People and remain under The Establishment’s tight grip. If We the People don’t seize this opportunity to further weaken the solid grip The Establishment has had over the United States Government, then our voices will soon die in the wind once again.

So, what does The Establishment have to do with a Civil War? Frankly, The Establishment has created an environment of divisiveness that this country hasn’t seen since the Civil Rights riots of the 1960s. Police are killing unarmed civilians, the public is rushing to judgment before the facts of the shootings are known, civilians have taken up arms to ambush policemen that have had nothing to do with the shootings, and we are seeing mass riots immediately following a Constitutionally sound General Election. Today’s wars do not occur on the Battlefield as they did in the 1860s, so if these acts of violence against that are emerging due to our overly corrupted system of Government, then perhaps war has become a term that should simply be removed from the modern dictionary.

We the People have been awakened from a long slumber and we need to keep ourselves awake long enough to make enough changes to ensure there is never a repeat of the 2016 Election Season. If you don’t like what you’ve just witnessed, then act now to begin fixing things. Waiting three years for the next Election Season to begin will be too late for us to make any substantial changes, so be warned that inaction now will give us the potential to find ourselves in the same exact position four years from today.