“I’ll give you a winter prediction: it’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.” – Groundhog Day
There was a dwarf fortune teller that was wanted by police. The news headline was “Small medium at large.”
One of the comments on the very first issue of the Civil War Two Weather Report (You can find all three Civil War II Weather Report: Spicy Time Coming, Civil War Weather Report #2, Censorship, Stalin, and a Bunch of Links, Civil War Weather Report #3: Violence, China, and Lots of Links) was a link to Thomas W. Chittum’s 1997 book Civil War Two: The Coming Breakup of America. It is available as a .pdf here. Ordinarily I’d point you towards Amazon® so you could buy the book and put money in the author’s pocket, but it looks like the book has been out of print for some time.
Update: it’s here, Mr. Chittum pointed me in this direction. Please give this one a purchase – it’s good for Mr. Chittum, and I promise I don’t make a dime off of it.
Chittum had an interesting past before writing this book – he fought in Vietnam for the United States. Apparently that wasn’t enough and the United States was all peaceful for the next twenty years, so he fought in Rhodesia and Croatia as a mercenary rifleman. Oh, and he was a computer programmer for most of his life.
The book is now 22 years old, and it makes predictions. How did it do? I won’t spoil the plot too much, but Chittum has probably been better at predicting 2019 while writing about it in 1996 than a lot of people have done living in 2016 and predicting 2019. It was pretty chilling to me to read how much Chittum had gotten right, so I thought I’d review the book.
As the notecards I use for blocking out posts went to three times the number I use for a typical post, I realized that the review would be take (at least) two posts, if not three. So, here’s part one. You’ll see part two next Monday.
Early on, Chittum notes that the United States has moved from the status of a nation to that of an empire. Some might date the beginning of empire to the end of the first Civil War, but I’d say that the United States was, more or less, a single nation up until the 1970’s. Sure there were regional differences, but the idea of kneeling when the national anthem was played wouldn’t have occurred to anyone but revolutionary Leftists.
Make the Empire Great Again™!
The United States had a homogeneous culture for 90% plus of citizens in the 1970’s. The dreams of the civic nationalist were realized in that era that resulted from very low immigration: all that matters was that people were committed to being the idea of integrating and assimilating into being an American, and it would work out fine. As long as we were one group that could sit and watch Cheers® or M*A*S*H™ or baseball, and cheer for our favorite teams, we’d be fine.
In the civic nationalist world it didn’t matter that your great-grandparents were Italian immigrants in 1900. Your grandpa might have been named Enzio, but he went by Ernie and married an Irish gal named Mary. Your dad played baseball. Your name is Robert and your sister’s name is Nancy and the only thing really Italian about you is you like pizza.
I’d guess I’d use the participation in youth soccer as a proxy for demographic change. We all know that soccer was originally invented in Europe so the Germans would have something to do besides invade France and conquer it in an afternoon. It’s not a traditional game that Americans play. Oh, sure, the United States women won the World Cup®. But to be fair, we needed something for our women to do so they didn’t invade France, either.
Let’s face it, our choice is either World Cup® soccer, or panzers streaking through Paris. Is it just me, or do the panzers sound more interesting?
But Chittum points out that stability comes from a single group identity. People being all on the same team makes us stronger, where as many groups make us weaker. In this light, diversity isn’t Our Greatest Strength™, it’s really a weakness.
And his point is clear – ask a Leftist what it means to be an American, and you’ll likely get a vague statement about all you have to do to be an American is want to be one. Asking them to learn English and assimilate and fit into American culture is for some reason now considered racist. From the vantage point of 2019, it’s clear, diversity is our greatest weakness if we want a safe and stable nation.
This is observable in the real world. Chittum fought in the breakup of the Balkans, and witnessed the breakdown of the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union fell, Chittum notes it was about 50% ethnic Russian. The resulting nation that emerged was about 80% ethnic Russian and is much more stable. It’s certainly more Russian.
The trends of a nation in peril are observable. Our police departments don’t look like policemen, they’re now military. Remember, to a cop, the citizens look like citizens. To the military, everyone is a potential enemy.
- SWAT teams raided Amish farms because they were selling unpasteurized milk.
- Cops get armored personnel carriers like they’re patrolling Syria and not San Francisco.
- Even local cops in Modern Mayberry wear gloves with hard plastic knuckles during normal patrols.
When she pulled me over I rolled down the window and said, “What’s wrong?” Her response? “Nothing.”
Chittum spends a lot of time on the American Southwest – he figures it will be the trigger to the Civil War.
The original Reconquista took place in Spain as the Spanish expelled the Muslims who had conquered it over the course of six hundred years. It was slow, but it finished up in 1492. In the same way, Chittum notes that, although Mexico is a failed state, Mexicans are “retaking” the Southwest in a modern Reconquista that has taken place over decades since 1965, but with 1000% less Muslims.
Nothing says practical like that hat!
Likewise, Chittum writes that the only solution is to close the border. Of course he was writing this in 1997 so 22 years have passed. Right now, at least 40% of the population of Los Angeles is foreign born. In no way could Los Angeles be considered to be an American city today. It might even be considered Mexican, as rival Mexican gangs have recently infiltrated the LA County Sheriff’s office (LINK).
Who loves this? Leftists who wish to topple the United States: Leftists need the votes. Ethnic groups like La Raza: La Raza is the intellectual part of the movement that actively wishes to retake the Southwest. Multinational corporations: they like the lower wages.
Worst, though, are the hipster cops who will only arrest you ironically.
Let’s be clear: Mexicans are patriots about Mexico. They love their country – that’s why they proudly carry their flag during protests. Even in 1997, Chittum noted that crime was rampant in Mexico and the border was a mess and it’s even worse in Latin America south of Mexico. Who can blame them for wanting to come to the United States, especially when some groups spin a fable of an ethnic empire, Aztlan, which is theirs for the taking?
The South and Northeast aren’t much better, and Chittum mentions that the Northeast will experience massive, open violence, which will be unorganized, and savage. Some of the urban areas might survive as city-states.
California is his odds-on favorite to be ground zero. Street gangs, as mentioned above, are numerous and founded on ethnicity. They’ve infiltrated public organizations and the police and even allegedly corrupted members of the Marine Corps (LINK). It’s this particular “enemy inside” that is troubling. An external enemy is that can be fought, but when the enemy of the country becomes an internal enemy, it’s much worse – there’s a reason that treason is mentioned in the Constitution.
Ahh, California, the meth laboratory of democracy.
Chittum mentions militias. They seemed to have their peak in the 1990’s, and quickly declined after Oklahoma City. He also mentions “Committees of Correspondence” which were a mechanism for people to communicate with each other because they didn’t have the Internet in the 1760’s to begin to organize against the British, LOL. The Internet serves this purpose now, with large groups getting information from unapproved sources, and even managing to “privately*” share information.
*Don’t bet your life or liberty on it.
Chittum writes that Civil War Two will be vicious, atrocity filled, and genocidal. Civilian casualties are to be expected, and many will be on purpose. Looting will be common. This is not the usual scenario our military faces in any fashion, so the analyses performed by John Mark (see Civil War II Weather Report: Spicy Time Coming) or Forward Observer (Civil War Weather Report #3: Violence, China, and Lots of Links) aren’t valid. Civil War Two has the potential to be far worse than any conflict seen in history, as it combines both ethnic division along with ideological division – it’s like the Russian Revolution times Rwanda to the power of Somalia.
I’ve been stuck in the same phase for . . . oh . . . twenty years now. Maybe one day I’ll grow out of being a 12 year old. I’m not telling you how long it took me to get to that phase!
There are four phases according to Chittum. The first phase of the problem is what he refers to as Foundational. He said in 1997 the Foundational phase was already complete.
- Tribalization of society – have different rules for different ethnic groups, push people to identify as something other than “American.”
- Power shift to unelected administrators, judges, board, commissions, and public servants.
- Since 1972, wages been stagnant, or, when compared to medical care or education, dramatically falling.
- The core of many large cities has been abandoned – think Baltimore or Detroit.
- Massive and sustained immigration, falling of standards and conditions in some locations to those similar to undeveloped countries.
- Racial organizations in police – militarization of police, which are both covered above.
- Treaties are more important that state sovereignty.
- A consistent and strong drive for gun control.
- From Antifa© to MS-13 to the Crips, these are in place.
- Mass media participation in the polarization. The mass media has already picked a side – Left.
We can see what Chittum says is behind us. Next Monday we’ll look (from his vantage point in 1997 and ours in 2019) to see what else he’s predicted, and how far along we are.
Sweet dreams!
