Timothy Birdnow

Sorry but wishful thinking isn't going to fix the problem of stolen elections, and that is what this is.

If he couldn't STOP the cheat before the election he sure can't fix it after. The Democrats now have a nationwide machine and they will own America forever. WE have become a political gulag.

Most of the commenters on this article agree; this is dim-witted optimism.

Many of them are saying they see no point in voting and I get that, but it is foolish. At least we should make the Democrats expose themselves more each election cycle. If you don't want to vote Republican anymore - and I get that as the GOP Establishment was in cahoots with the Democrats in my opinion - fine but pick another party. Maybe we should all move to the Constitution Party and let the GOP die with the RINO's who so dearly love their power there.

The GOP is not just a tarnished brand, it's a toxic brand and the public has now seen they do not do what they promise. Winning the public back is going to be a big task and it's not going to happen because the party is still full of those Establishment types (like John Thune) who refused to move Trump's agenda in the first place and who didn't care about the concerns of the voters and who refused to defend the President and his record.

I would add this smells much like a Color Revolution. I am always blaming the CIA for this kind of stuff but given the fact there was a clear algorithm that took 15% of Republican votes and flipped them to the Democrats it really stinks of their hand in it. Trump should have completely gutted the CIA but he failed to do that.

At any rate the cow has left the barn, the ills have left Pandora's box, and America's free and fair elections are now just memories. We live in a one party state now and if they don't like what you say...

I've studied Communist nations quite a bit over the years and often this is how it happens. Yes, on occasion they actually seize power, but more often they "win" power through electoral fraud and stirring up riots and "protests" and bullying the public into either not voting or they just change those votes when they count them. America has gone the very same path as did Venezuela. And we'll have the same outcome; poverty, starvation, etc.

It is a rare thing indeed for a Communist country to come back, at least not without foreign intervention (as in the Eastern Block). Communists are idiots in terms of what they want but they are masters at the tactics to acquire the power to get what they want - and extremely dangerous combination.

Now is perhaps the time to look to the Founding Fathers and follow in their footsteps.

The term Civil War is a misnomer and the Southerners were right to call it the War Between the States; it wasn't a civil war. Calling it that was pure propaganda as Lincoln and the Unionists could not legally invade those states - there is nothing in the Constitution that says membership is eternal - so he had to devise a way to pass legal muster and that was by calling it an INSURRECTION which he legally could suppress by force. So his Administration pronounced it a civil war as opposed to a war between states because the latter had an aura of legitimacy for the Confederate cause.

The only place there was a true civil war was in Missouri and Kansas.

When Kansas was opened for settlement it was under the horrible idea of Popular Sovereignty devised by Stephen Douglass. This ended the Missouri Compromise which said that every slave state admitted to the Union had to be balanced by a free state. Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland,, and Delaware were north of the arbitrary line dividing free and slave areas - the Mason Dixon line. Douglass and the other Southern leaders knew that both Nebraska and Kansas were going to come in as free states, and California had already come in as a free state despite a good chunk of it being south of the Mason Dixon line, and the territories in the Southwest were underpopulated and when they did come in would likely come in as non-slave states (during the war Nevada was admitted, mostly because that was Lincoln country and he needed their electoral college votes in the election of 1864.)

So the idea was everyone would vote on what kind of state they would be.

The end result was chaos. People from all over the north flocked to Kansas (Nebraska was never going to be an issue) and tried to turn it into a free state, and southerners likewise flocked there for cheap land and to keep Kansas in the fold. Civil disorder and violence came almost immediately to Kansas, and to south-western Missouri. There were the Border Ruffians, Southern men who were trying to drive the northern settlers out. (They had established their base in a town they named Lawrence, and it became the equivalent of Carthage to a Roman to the Southerners.)

The Northerners were no choir boys; they established the Jayhawkers, groups of irregulars, who would raid Missouri farms and take the slaves away but also usually stole everything that wasn't nailed down and burned the homes of the residents, and often hanged the men. The James Farm, sitting at a major crossroads, was raided multiple times, and in fact the James women were raped and beaten almost to death while the elder James was hanged and, while he did not die, he was brain damaged thereafter and required a lot of care. After that young Jesse, who had been out hunting, rode off to join his brother in Quantrill's irregulars.

Quantrill and his troops were amazingly successful at guerilla fighters, and they ran the Union Army a merry chase as Missouri fell into the grip of the North. Eventually they raided Lawrence but failed to get Senator James Lane, the principle architect of the policies of abusing Confederate Missourians and the guy who pretty much ran the Red Legs, the most hated group of Jayhawkers. Thomas Ewing, the brother in law of William Tecumseh Sherman, was one of the founders of the Red Legs. Read more about them here.

Read my own, lengthy post about the Bushwackers here.

Anyway, to get to the point, this was a true civil war, not the battles between generals in the East.

But there is more to this and it ties in with the current situation. The Governor of Missouri and the state legislature wanted to secede, and so probably did a majority of Missourians (they didn't do all the polling like now). So they created a 100 man committee to draft a new Constitution in which Missouri would declare it's dissolution of union and join the Confederacy. Funny thing though; somehow the abolitionists managed to pack this committee and they voted 99 to 0 to remain in the Union (in violation of their charter) and they then declared the entire state government illegal and made themselves the new state government.

As you can imagine the legislature and governor were appalled. They refused to recognize the legitimacy of this body. Enter Nathaniel Lyon, Lincoln's point man. He rounded up a bunch of Germans and marched on the state militia, which was doing drills in St. Louis, They arrested the militia (who did not have much live ammo) and marched them through the city to the Federal Arsenal (where Anheuser Busch now sits). At one point a woman hurled insults at the Germans, a scuffle started, and then shooting broke out with the locals shooting at the recruits. Sherman was there with his little son and had to lay on top of the kid to protect him.

After this Lyon went on the offensive; chasing the Legislature out of Jefferson city and all the way down to the southwest corner of the state where he was finally stopped (by a bullet).Quantrill was there, fighting on the side of the Confederates at the time (Quantrill had come to Kansas as one of the abolitionists but he turned against them in a big way.)

At any rate this led to open warfare across the state, with the Confederates not really having any troops to fight the Union but with the nastiest type of warfare - Guerilla warfare - being ongoing. Quantrill's lieutenant was a man named Bill Anderson, and Anderson became known as Bloody Bill, and he was too blood thirsty even for Quantrill so he split off. Quantrill's band was a who's who of the old West - the James=Younger Gang, the Dalton Gang, and their brother frank Dalton who woud become a legend as sheriff of Ft. Smith Arkansas (while his brothers were pretty dim and incompetent for outlaws). A bunch of others came out of this band.

My point is it was a dirty political move that triggered the true civil war in America back then, and it just may trigger another. When the public is denied their basic civil rights they rebel, and when it's done is so devious a way they really rebel. We still have our guns after all.

And I doubt the military will be willing to fire on American civilians with their best weaponry. Maybe they might shoot back if shot at, but I suspect if they are ordered to go into a protest and shoot the people there most of them will refuse those unlawful orders.

I once wrote a blogpost about Nathaniel Lyon but can't find it now; too bad.

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