Why We Must Win The Culture War

"The main purpose of private weapons is to enable short-term survival of individuals while they try to win the culture war. For all the talk a civil war, we should hope it never starts. To win a civil war, we'd need a very broad coalition. If that coalition forms and holds, a miracle in itself considering the heterogeneous nature of the American gun owners, it would fall apart as soon as the original enemy falls. The faction would then fratricide as they have after every revolution in history, with the most ruthless group likely winning control. That group may or may not be us, but we wouldn't like our own image if we win, nor would we be alive to lament the loss if we do not.

We can (only) win this war by winning over our compatriots, one by one. That effort is less heroic but also less bloody and uncertain that taking up arms or growing old waiting for such a call. What have you done today...this week...this month to advance our cause? Look in the mirror and ask yourself that question in the privacy of your own mind."
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Marxists By Various Names
"America is much too full of them. If a plague ever developed that would affect people in proportion to their willingness to victimize others, real estate would become a lot cheaper shortly."

Oleg Volk

“It Started With A Lie”

The recognized meaning of a civil war has always been one in which differing factions strive for control of a single nation in order to rule. The war between King Charles I and Oliver Cromwell was truly a “civil war” in that both sides strove by war to rule England. The war between the Stuart kings and the line of Hanover was also a “civil war” for the same reason. On the other hand, the wars between the British and the Irish, Scots and Welsh were not “civil wars” because though the British sought to rule Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the peoples of those nations had no designs upon the British throne – they simply wished to be left alone in peace and freedom.
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"I, therefore, feel that I but express their desire when I say I hope, and they hope, for peaceable relations with you, though we must part. They may be mutually beneficial to us in the future, as they have been in the past, if you so will it. The reverse may bring disaster on every portion of the country, and, if you will have it thus, we will invoke the God of our fathers, who delivered them from the power of the lion, to protect us from the ravages of the bear; and thus, putting our trust in God and in our firm hearts and strong arms, we will vindicate the right as best we may."

Jefferson Davis
Farewell Speech

Quotes

"Irreconcilable Differences"

"On the Republican side, it seems they ran against give-and-take, compromise. They don’t want gridlock, either. They want you to surrender."

Quote Of The Day

"There are more African Americans under correctional control today — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began."
--Michelle Alexander

Via Rebellion