Posted by
Dean D. on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:03:41 PM
For many years I have wondered how long the happy and productive marriage we call the United States of America could remain a viable entity. Every year it seems like the philosophical, social and religious differences between conservative and liberal citizens, both rural and urban, becomes measurably wider. Neither partner is willing to make the required concessions needed to mend their differences. Neither partner finds these necessary concessions palatable and both are willing to fight changing their own beliefs to the bitter end. In any normal marriage of our time, differences this large and uncompromising would bring them to the decision of filing for a dissolution in a divorce court on the grounds of "irreconcilable differences".
I recently saw a link on the
Drudge Report featuring an article in the
Wall Street Journal which reinforces my belief that our country is headed to an inevitible dissolution. Russian Professor Igor Panarin seems to think so too.
The article starts off with this:
"For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media."
You can read the article yourself to see what else the Professor has to say. His basic point is that our differences here in the U.S.of A. are and will become so great that we will not be able to address them short of division and strife. I am afraid he may very well be correct. I believe that "Red state" voters would happily seceed from the Union and restore our Republic in the manner it was created minus the Marxist Blue states. I am also equally sure that the "Blue state" voters would not be willing to allow this to happen. They have too much to lose if the heartland of our country is no longer under their thumb. I find the Professor's noted timeline of the 2010 election year interesting. More stolen elections like the one currently going on in Minnesota and other power grabs that we have witnessed recently may just be the spark to ignite the tinder of rebellion.
Conservatives, especially the rural variety, will only be pushed so far, can only ignore so much, before they are forced to actively rebel against the tyrany of the leftists. While I pray to God that our country does not fall into a civil war, I personally would prefer to have a rural conservative watching my back as opposed to an urban liberal. At least the rural conservative usually knows which end of the "shootin iron" the projectile exits!
May God grant us the wisdom to persevere and make the right choices in the future. May God help us if we fail.