“System of government categorized by extreme dictatorship. Seven across.” – Hot Fuzz
I bought an Antifa© alarm clock. It just calls me names. Talk about a rude awakening.
- Common violence. Organized violence is occurring monthly.
- Opposing sides develop governing/war structures. Just in case.
- Common violence that is generally deemed by governmental authorities as justified based on ideology.
- Open War.
May had (again) increased violence, but not as bad as it could have been as unseasonably cold weather kept other temperatures down. Again, none of the violence that I could see originated from the Right.
I’m holding May at 9 out of 10. That’s still two minutes to midnight. Last month I said that “ July or August could take us to a 10” and the reason is becoming clearer, as hot weather and economic woes will be showing up on the street.
I currently put the total at (this is my best approximation, since no one tracks the death toll from rebellion-related violence) up to around 800 out of the 1,000 required for the international civil war definition.
As close as we are to the precipice of war, be careful. Things could change at any minute. Avoid crowds. Get out of cities. Now. A year too soon is better than one day too late.
In this issue: Front Matter – Two Years On – Violence And Censorship Update – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – Inflation – Links
Front Matter
Welcome to the latest issue of the Civil War II Weather Report. These posts are different than the other posts at Wilder Wealthy and Wise and consist of smaller segments covering multiple topics around the single focus of Civil War 2.0, on the first or second Monday of every month. I’ve created a page (LINK) for links to all of the past issues. Also, subscribe because you’ll get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at 7:30 Eastern, free of charge.
Two Years On
I started this line of posting two years ago, and it was clear to me that the United States is Balkanizing around multiple worldviews. You can’t read the headlines today without seeing it.
It’s getting worse, not better. Trust me, I’d much rather have a post that says, “LOL, looks like it’s all good, this is the last issue.”
The seeds of this situation were planted decades ago. Back in 1990 (according to Pew Research) we were mostly one nation. Sure, there were people on the extremes of either end, but those people were mostly ignored.
I believe that after this term in office, Chuck should get another term. In prison.
But when Pew looked at people in 2017, they found the Left has moved far to the political left, while the Right had only slightly moved. The Balkanization exists because the Left has moved left. That direction of drift by the Left is accelerating.
Right and Left have, since 1999 or so, completely given up on the idea of fiscal discipline. It’s gone. The spending has just sped up, and taxation is no longer related at all to the amount that the Federal government spends. There are numerous problems with this, not the least of which is the off-balance way that growth is funneled to chosen winners.
What happens when you mix a population that doesn’t have the same conception of the fundamental function of government with massive numbers of unassimilated foreigners and throw in an economic dislocation?
Civil War.
The reaction to Trump brought about the current coalescence of the Left’s strands that have many fundamental reasons to hate each other, but skipped it for the purpose of hating even more. Internally, they’ll eventually face a mass purity test, but for now they’re content to just spend their daily Two Minutes Hate on the Right.
Conditions are closer now to Civil War than at any point in my life. The Civil War 2.0 Scale™ has moved from a 6 to a 9 in that time frame. Billions in property damage have been done. At least hundreds of people are now dead with untold thousands of injured due to this ideological conflict.
All in 24 months.
Violence And Censorship Update
This month is, again, mainly censorship.
Point 1. Twitter® Is Unaware Of Irony
Twitter™ got kicked out of Nigeria. Why? Because they deleted a Tweet® from the President of Nigeria where he was threatening secessionists in his own country who might try to start a civil war.
Here was Twitter’s™ response
Wait, what?
It’s an essential human right for people to have Twitter™. Huh.
Point 2. Wuhan Fluhan
One of my big pet peeves about the press is when they turn news stories into editorials. It reduces my trust in them to, well, zero. Looks like they can’t even trust themselves as they go back to memoryhole their own inconvenient headlines:
Point 3. Enemy Of The State
Homeland Security has now issued warning bulletins for:
- January 27 and “coming weeks” as they waited for violence from the Right,
- May 14 for “Right Wing Violence” and, now,
- Last week, for Right Wing violence against marchers at the Tulsa Riot Anniversary.
It turns out that Joe Biden wants to simply change the War on Terror laws to make them applicable to, well, everyone Joe doesn’t like. You remember, those laws that were derided by the Left and Right as un-Constitutional, back when such things mattered to the Left?
How do we know who is on those lists? Well, the CIA is spying on Americans. Huh. Thought that was illegal? No matter.
Thankfully, someone is speaking out for the Right:
Glenn Greenwald has a lot more at this (LINK). RTWT.
Updated Civil War II Index
The Civil War II graphs are an attempt to measure four factors that might make Civil War II more likely, in real-time. They are broken up into Violence, Political Instability, Economic Outlook, and Illegal Alien Crossings. As each of these is difficult to measure, I’ve created for three of the four metrics some leading indicators that combine to become the index. On illegal aliens, I’m just using government figures.
Violence:
Up is more violent, and violence is down again in May. Inner-city rioting continues and murder rates are up by double-digits, but nobody seems to care anymore.
Political Instability:
Up is more unstable. Instability increased this month, as expected. I think June may calm down, but who knows what Congress will get up to this month.
Economic:
I expected this number to be less positive. It’s not. Inflation has yet to hit this measure.
Illegal Aliens:
This data is at record levels for every year I have data for. Comments from the Left? “There needs to be more.”
Inflation
“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose” is more than a song lyric – it’s true. Right now we’re seeing inflation everywhere. Lumber. Gasoline. And . . . hamburgers.
All of the inflation stems from different things. Wood, well, it’s demand and a limited supply of mills. Gasoline? Those prices are up based on capacity, too, but also on crude oil prices, which have gone back up to pre-COVID levels.
Hamburgers? I just saw a fast-food double cheeseburger for $6.99.
Ouch!
Ranchers are making the same to less money than when beef was cheaper, so just like lumber, the big money is being made by the processors.
Not that any of that matters. Inflation is corrosive – it’s really a stealth tax where a government prints more money and, well, to put it in the immortal words of AOC when she wants to pay for universal healthcare, “You just pay for it.”
Obviously, there are consequences, and those are rising prices. Is there a limit?
No. There is no limit. The result, though, is generally catastrophic. People in an inflationary economy don’t behave rationally, since they become tempted to purchase absolutely anything because their money is so worthless that they want to get it out of their hands as quickly as possible. Why?
Because as worthless as it is today, tomorrow it will be worth even less.
This creates panic. Mania. Desperate people. A situation ripe for changing out a government. Or even a revolution. In the 1970s, there was no revolution, but the government was changed out, decisively. Twice. But in the 1970s, the United States was the world leader in manufacturing. In the 1970s, the United States was (relatively) culturally homogeneous. In the 1970s, the difference between Right and Left was much, much smaller.
Now? None of those are in play. For a government to play with inflation now is like trying to catch falling daggers: dangerous. Revolution after revolution and war after war has been caused by the devastation created by bad economic conditions.
LINKS
As usual, links this month are courtesy of Ricky. Thanks so much!!
CHATTER LEFT AND RIGHT
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democracy-race-power/
https://theweek.com/articles/983063/threat-civil-war-didnt-end-trump-presidency
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/12/gop-civil-war-dont-bet-on-it-487192
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/05/14/its-not-a-civil-war-its-a-purge-492851
https://news.yahoo.com/civil-war-bad-business-095607030.html
https://richmondobserver.com/opinion/item/12399-opinion-will-treason-mania-destroy-america.html
SECESSION TALK
https://vtdigger.org/2021/05/31/edward-mcmahon-u-s-could-soon-cease-to-be-a-functioning-democracy/
https://amgreatness.com/2021/06/01/the-new-secession-crisis/
https://americanmind.org/salvo/red-lines/
https://www.thestate.com/news/nation-world/national/article251530708.html
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/img2.png?itok=p10yKIFF
ONE, TWO, THREE, WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR?
NYC : https://twitter.com/yuhline/status/1399502974272131078
Portland : https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1398986717047230467
Miami : https://twitter.com/ONLYinDADE/status/1399791879068192783
America: https://twitter.com/i/status/1399800643880108035
https://www.city-journal.org/critical-race-theory-portland-public-schools
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/removing-the-bedrock-of-liberalism-826
1,000 KILLED THRESHOLD TO OFFICIALLY DECLARE CW? HOLD MY DOS EQUIS…
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/mexico-shares-grim-figures-on-disappeared-citizens/2202969
https://www.dw.com/en/dozens-fall-victim-to-mexicos-brutal-election-campaign/a-57694375
https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-mexico-police-f6ea7798ca3cc171ac13b3a5a6a6c266
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p1218-overdose-deaths-covid-19.html
We are starting to finally see more and more heritage Americans becoming disengaged from the system. It is about time, giving legitimacy via acceptance simply prolongs the illegitimacy. The X-factor now is how soon a critical mass of people understand they are without any political representation and decide to pursue political goals by decidedly non-political means.
Just remember, we are less than five months into the Usurper’s regime and things are getting hairy. Imagine what it will be like this summer and heading into fall with a new crisis, Covid 2.0 or something else….
Yup. There will be more crisis – that we can be certain of.
Along with legitimate worries of civil war and concerns over drug wars is the existential threat of ongoing (intentional or unintentional) biowar.
https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2021/05/10/unthinkable-thoughts/
Exactly. It’s getting pretty messy out there.
(S)elections have consequences. Too bad so sad about the Benetton rainbow stew bubble up equality of results for all comrades utopia that won’t ever be happening due to this thing called human nature.
Surliness is on the increase with the wannabe rappers who think that they live in the lyrics of some corn studded turd that certainly isn’t music.
Shots are ringing out almost nightly as the bus stops, street lights and indispensable diverse cultural enrichment roll on to Wakanda.
Items at the store will go up 25-75 cents overnight and meat is almost a luxury but the controllers don’t want any protein for the useless eaters who clog up their playground earth with visual pollution.
Empty shelves are every day now even on Monday. One week it is coffee filters, next week peanut butter or paper towels.
Shoppers aren’t biting on the increases and eventually the store will have to mark down as they aren’t rated too big to fail or backed by a Zimbabwe printing press.
Prep hard like your life depends on it because it does and get to know every exit route away from the meat grinder CPUSA dystopia cities and mcmansion suburbs.
Be ready for living on foot with what you can carry because living in a CPUSA/CCP gulag isn’t an option.
Don’t forget to thank the evolved enlightened faculty lounge statist utopians for the fundamental transformation into Zimbabwe that no one asked for.
Where is the “Yes We Can!”?
Getting back to the least processed foods helps here. And it’s never too late to garden.
Okay, it’s too late sometimes. October is just plain silly.
Having lived in Vermont for over a decade, I was particularly interested in the VTDigger link under SECESSION TALK. A UVM professor spewing radical Leftist nonsense. The site wouldn’t take comments on that “Commentary” by McMahon, so I thought I’d just vent a little here.
“And we now see efforts by Donald Trump and his acolytes to use the Big Lie to further undermine American democracy.”
There are none so blind as those that don’t want to see. The whole premise that he based his writing on is flipped upside down if it turns out the election fraud happened. He’s quick to declare it didn’t, though he has no personal reason to know that, but is clearly just parroting the Leftist politicians and media. The criminals always declare their innocence! Almost everything he declares is dragging us to an illiberal democracy I believe is being done by the Left and his ilk.
Most of the attempted “soft coup” events that failed to unseat Trump until the November 2020 election have already taken us the bulk of the way to open civil war. His state of denial, multiplied by the millions of gullible Democrats and RINOs, is the Big Lie that will drag us over the line.
Edward McMahon started out the gate with a lie when he said he was middle of the road politics. Then he veered decidedly left.
I’m beginning to believe that outrageous statement that lefties are mentally ill.
It was bad under Bush II, under Trump is was positively destabilizing – mentally for many on the Left.
NTTAWWT.
My first thought was that there isn’t one day that goes by when I don’t think, “what planet is this and how did I get here?” Today, it’s the Russian foreign minister saying more than any batch of American lawyers about protecting the rights of the imprisoned (but not charged) people who were simply visiting DC on January 6th.
The second was that when Pedo Jo says something like “white supremacy is the biggest terrorism threat we face,” why doesn’t anyone say, “show us your data?” You’d think that when they say something like “Right-wing attacks are responsible for two thirds of terror attacks and plots” there’d be something quantitative in there. It might be bullshit, and for all we know they’re counting terrorism in different countries, but if they list what they’re talking about, we could research and verify that it is all bovine fertilizer concentrate.
Considering how much damage left-wing terrorism did last year, I don’t believe it for a zeptosecond.
“…why doesn’t anyone say, “show us your data?””
Because that is precisely the kind of thing a white supremacist terrorist would say!
Yup. But it’s the lie they need, since they don’t have the data.
Americans scream tyranny is wonderful, but Americans are unable to explain why Cubans try to escape even though Cuba has gun control and free medical care.
You’re going to love my post in about three hours.
Linked from WesternRifleShootersAssociation:
https://darkbrightness.nz/2021/06/life/tangata-whenua-stasi/
The article quotes the mysterious ‘John Wilder’ person:
* “…get out of big cities now…”
[scribbles notes furiously]
Heh heh!
I can only say it so many times. A year too early is better than an hour too late.