Atlas is Preparing to Shrug

For those of you who are curious as to why I keep saying there is a civil war coming in this country, let me explain why.


The seeds of civil war are there in every country, even if the people living therin do not see them. In the 1630's, no one would have believed that the Puritans would have been able to spark a full blown Royalist-Puritan civil war. In 1860, as South Carolina led the rest of the states that would eventually become the Confederacy left the Union, no one would have believed that the Civil War we now think of as inevitable would have come until Fort Sumter itself fell. The unrest in the Balkans would have been unbelievable just a few decades ago, until a very few persons for whom ethnicity and race and religion where important dragged the entire region into civil war.


In fact, up until a civil war starts, there are three sides, those trying to start the war, those trying to stop it, and those who know nothing of what is going on under the surface. Some of those trying to start the war know fully well what they are doing, and take glee from that fact. Others act out of ignorance, and pursue policies that they think will make their country better, ignoring all those who cry out to them to wait, and think about it from the other side.


Which is where I think the United States is in this upcoming election. We are in a nation as divided, if not more so, than it was in 1859, just before brothers literally took up arms against each other to determine just how much power the Federal Government would have over the states. It was not until the US looked like it was going to lose, and Britain and France would come into the war on the Confederacy’s side, that Abraham Lincoln brought out the Emancipation Proclamation and transformed the Civil War from one about the rights of states to one about economics and slavery.


The chief cause of this second civil war will be economics. The economics of “Spreading the wealth around,” that will drive many in our top ten out of this country, and their companies with them.


Right now, the top 1% of this country ears 20% of the income, and pays 40% of the income, for the top 10% it is 40% of the income and almost 70% of the taxes. In 2010, there will be a tax increase unless the president does something about it, a Tax Increase built into the law that will affect all persons in this country, including the 40% who pay nothing in income taxes. 2010 is when the Bush Tax cuts run out.


This will lead to a tax increase across the country, a tax increase that Obama’s tax cuts won’t be able to negate. Throw in the increase in taxes to those making over $200,000 (the amount was dropped over the weekend from 250 to 200 thousand) and you will have many in our top 10%, people who have worked hard, earned money, and set up companies across this country, being taxed for around 80 to 90% of the income.


If you start putting more and more of the burden on them, then you begin to turn them into atlas, holding up this country on their shoulders alone, taxing them into poverty, and driving them out of this country. As more and more of those in the top 10% leave, and have almost 50% of what little they have left stolen from them by the government in the form of Exit Taxes, the nation will get poorer and poorer.


As the nation goes bankrupt, we will see the Fairness Doctrine come into play again. Conservative Talk Radio will be shut down. FOX News will be taken off the air. And, if the FCC is to be believed, they will start to go after the internet, shutting down major conservative, and in some cases liberal, blogs that oppose the president that Oprah Winfrey first described as “The One.”


As the Conservatives are shut down more and more, as they are drummed out of media and government, they will begin to grow resentful, and in many cases angry. They will begin to feel like there is an active conspiracy against them, one which is trying to prevent them from having any say in the government. They will blame ACORN, Obama, and the Liberal Media.
Eventually, they will reach the point where they think that the government is ready to shoot them, and that their neighbors are ready to lynch them. The nation will be at it’s prime, and something will happen.


Perhaps it will be the ATF enforcing a universal gun ban shooting a teenager who was out hunting. Perhaps it will be a conservative shot for trying to get his viewpoints out there in pirate radio. Perhaps it will be a person who was once in the top 20% trying to protect what little money he has left. Or perhaps it will be somebody actually lynched. Or it could even be a conservative, convinced his neighbors are about to lynch him, who kills his neighbors in pre-emptive self-defense.
But it shall be as sparks to the kindling, and the nation will burn. The nation shall be consumed in an inferno. And the two sides shall split, and what was once one, shall be split in twain, perhaps forever.


That is why I am voting for John McCain in November, because I understand that Barack Obama is actively advocating policies that will result in the second civil war in these here United States.