{"id":661,"date":"2020-01-23T11:01:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T16:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/?p=661"},"modified":"2020-01-23T11:02:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T16:02:11","slug":"civil-war-how-do-civil-wars-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/2020\/01\/23\/civil-war-how-do-civil-wars-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War: How Do Civil Wars Happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a fascinating (and disturbing) read. It is one of the best \u201cnutshell\u201d descriptions of the United States current political situation.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jack Devere Minzey, born 6 October 1928, died 8 April 2018, was the Department Head of Education at Eastern Michigan University as well as a prolific author of numerous books, most of which were on the topic of Education and the Government role therein. (Editor’s note)This was the last of his works:<\/p>\n

How Do Civil Wars Happen \u2013 Dr. Jack Devere Minzey<\/a><\/p>\n

Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge. That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.<\/p>\n

The Mueller investigation was about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it’s not the first time they’ve done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn’t really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There’s a pattern here.<\/p>\n

What do sure odds of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don’t accept the results of any election that they don’t win. It means they don’t believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections. That’s a civil war.<\/p>\n

There’s no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the Democrats have rejected our system of government. <\/p>\n

This isn’t dissent. It’s not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they’re the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election. When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don’t win, what you want is a dictatorship.<\/p>\n

Read more… How Do Civil Wars Happen \u2013 Dr. Jack Devere Minzey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a fascinating (and disturbing) read. It is one of the best \u201cnutshell\u201d descriptions of the United States current political situation. Dr. Jack Devere Minzey, born 6 October 1928, died 8 April 2018, was the Department Head of Education at Eastern Michigan University as well as a prolific author of numerous books, most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}