CW II

    Through extensive family research I know a thing or two about the first Civil War in America. My great…..cousin William H. Seward was a hands-on architect of the war as Lincoln’s Secretary of State, and after it was all over the stepdaughter of David Osterhout, Susan VanDerZee, attended to Ulysses S. Grant’s needs (as his maid) while he wrote his memoir in New York City. That covers both sides of my family and subsequent descendants of our slaves. I read both Seward’s and Grant’s memoirs. And now a second Civil War is being floated by the President of the United States. Any takers?

“…If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress”- @realDonaldTrump retweet. 

    Rev. Jeffress is a Fox News contributor, Trump apologist and pastor of a Dallas mega-church. Trump’s seditious “Christian” retweet is a perfect example of the heretical hypocrisy of the evangelical church in America. The not so veiled threat of a red state, armed insurgency has been going on since Sean Spicer miscounted heads on the inaugural mall. For Jeffress’ minions of “angry” Christians to take up this call for an armed jihad is laughable. Isolationist capitalism and Republican “Christianity” have found their champions in demagogues like Jeffress and Trump, and they’ll do or say anything to to prop up and maintain their cult leader on his rickety throne. Nobody with half a brain is buying it.

    It took close to fifty years of contention, greed, slavery and massive corruption in the nineteenth century to finally bring about the schism of the “united” states, resulting in  armed struggle, the abolition of slavery and over a million domestic deaths. If you think a few disgruntled hillbilly Trump supporters, who can’t make their payments on that new bass boat, will take to the streets bible in one hand and AR in the other, you are delusional. This flaccid attempt by these so-called people of “faith” to use their pulpits to spread discord, as their grasp on power is slipping, is obvious and rather pitiful. But, if we pull those vestments aside there is something much more sinister hiding between those sweaty thighs—Pence.

     In the rush to impeach and remove the boil that is Trump we cannot forget the underlying cancer that allowed him to erupt from the Republic’s skin in the first place. It is only now that Trump is essentially impeaching himself that the ruling elites have begrudgingly rose to the occasion and are addressing the collapse of our democracy. Joe Biden and his son may be innocent of Ukrainian corruption and not members of Skull and Bones but you can’t deny that they are a part of the inherited, capitalist, political machinery that runs this country. Martin Van Buren's and Geronimo’s skulls will both attest to that. Blatant racism, incitement to violence, nepotism, abuse of power, obstruction of justice, disregard of the emoluments clause, have been going on since Trump was sworn in. Nobody seemed to care enough to impeach until now. Republicans gave him cover and that homophobic, poor excuse for a Christian, Pence, mimicked his every word; Trump’s hand stuffed up his ass. But attack the machine in the persona of Uncle Joe, soliciting the help of a foreign comedian turned president, and it was a step too far for even Nancy Pelosi. Not funny.  

    My advice (if anyone is listening) would be for the Democrats to slowly work their way up the Washington food chain. Giuliani, Mulvaney, Pompeo, Barr and Pence should be thoroughly investigated, tried if possible, removed from office (if they have one) and jailed before Trump hits the skids. The template is there. Spiro Agnew, John Mitchell, et al went first, before Nixon resigned in disgrace. Before the snake filled moat can be built let us finally act. Repeating a pre-civil war political party’s call to action, we may have to burn down the barn in order to get rid of all the rats. God bless.