Timothy Birdnow

What would an American civil war look like? This article at American Thinker takes a gander at it.

I would argue we are already in one, just without much in the way of killing as of yet.

The author is right; it will be urban v. rural, white v. Hispanic and black, Christian v. atheist/pagan/ Muslim. The coasts v. middle America.

But we must ask who is going to win?

By all objective metrics it should be middle America. We have all the farmland. We have the oil production. We have the control of interstate commerce. They have all the academics but we have the doers, the people who actually accomplish things. We control the flow of water. We control a lot of the electricity.

When I was in college I took a couple of courses in Chinese history (my emphasis was on Russian, but it seemed a good idea to know a little something about China as they were still Communists) and one of the things the conservative professor taught was that during the Second World War Chiang Kai Shek and the Kuomintang retreated to the cities where they could defend themselves from the Japanese. The Communists under Mao knew they would be toast if they went with Shek into the cities so they stayed in the countryside and waged a guerilla war against Japan. Guess what? When the war was over the Communists owned the countryside and it only took four years for them to starve out the Nationlists completely. The cities had the people and even the manufacturing but the food and water were all in the country.

That is pretty much how this will shake out. Maybe.

Maybe because power alone does not determine such things. The Left is energized, animated, always believing they have history on their side and it is inevitable they will win. It is much like the Israelites knowing they would conquer Canaan because Yahweh was on their side; Leftism is indeed a religious belief and the young leftists, full of enthusiasm and a mystical belief that "justice" is attainable by getting rid of the things that came before, will fight with all their might. We see that now with these ICE encounters; these people are risking their lives to stop us from enforcing the law, a law supported by most Americans and one that is quite mild in it's application. (We aren't starving detainees or beating or raping them or making them work with no pay - my personal favorite as it's the only way to make the point to everyone that if you invade America and get caught you will not only get kicked out but be forced to work for no pay for a time.) Many countries have lengthy prison sentences for a first offense, unlike the U.S.

So the Left will have the young and their zeast.

They will also have the media and that means they can peddle all the propaganda they like. Organizing on the Right will be much harder. And that means getting the people in the middle will be much harder.

They also own education, all of it.

They have all the good ports so it will be tough to get goods and materials in to middle America. We own the railroads and will own the trucking, but what value is there in controlling the means of transport if there is nothing to transport?

In the end we can and should win a civil war. But oftentimes the more disciplined and enthusiastic win where the better positioned lose. Just ask King Louis. Or Czar Nicholas.

The Book of Revelations says that the Messiah will "destroy them with the sword of His mouth and the brightness of His coming". In other words when Jesus returns He won't fight a physical war so much as simply speak Truth and His enemies will wither. It is far better to win by what you say than by simple force.

That's the way the Left works.

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