{"id":4585,"date":"2018-04-21T14:23:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T14:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/21\/seven-forces-driving-america-toward-civil-war\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T14:23:26","slug":"seven-forces-driving-america-toward-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/21\/seven-forces-driving-america-toward-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Forces Driving America Toward Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">No one in his right mind could wish for civil war. At the moment it is unlikely, but it is becoming more likely each day as the nation sinks into madness, &#39;thanks&#39; almost exclusively to the ever-expanding extremism of the hard Left which has captured the Democrat Party.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"> John Hawkins <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/johnhawkins\/2018\/04\/21\/draft-n2473193\">lists<\/a> seven &#39;forces&#39; pushing us in the direction of armed civil conflict: disrespect for the Constitution; tribalism; the ever-expanding power of the Federal government; moral decline; the national debt; lack of a shared culture; mindless gun-grabbing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">We certainly do live in interesting times! Who can be bored?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one in his right mind could wish for civil war. At the moment it is unlikely, but it is becoming more likely each day as the nation sinks into madness, &#39;thanks&#39; almost exclusively to the ever-expanding extremism of the hard Left which has captured the Democrat Party.&#0160; John Hawkins lists seven &#39;forces&#39; pushing us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/21\/seven-forces-driving-america-toward-civil-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seven Forces Driving America Toward Civil War&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}