Retired Major General Paul Eaton Issues A Chilling Warning

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88. Okay, I've been advised that my ideas are unacceptably kooky. I sit corrected.

So, I'll back off after I've left one thought with you. I believe an actual civil war has been ongoing for about 44 years, maybe even 52 years. It has never been too obviously bloody (so long as you don't count the two Iraq invasions) but it has never de-escalated. It has been intentionally and incrementally ramped up by Republicans whose trademark is total rejection of progressive democracy and whose only aspiration is oligarchic rule. They further escalated the conflict on November 5th, placing them a rather large step toward their victory.

I remembered being ostracized and ridiculed in high school for some of the writing I did for our underground newspaper. I mostly harped on current events, equating the frenzy of football fandom, the rise of southern Republicans, the criminal conduct of the military in Vietnam and the American people's tendency to excuse or applaud brutality without so much as a blush before their all-knowing god. Needless to say, the consensus was that I was a hopeless radical, whose ideas were unhinged and alien to acceptable society. I lived through it and have now, unfortunately, seen virtually everything I suspected in 1969 come to pass or be confirmed in the court of honest retrospection.