By this definition, the US is in a constant state of civil war, fighting it out at the ballot box (in theory) and in some cases literally, every 2 and 4 years. 😩 View quoted note → #peace #voluntarism

> "*There is no such thing as the American Civil War.*  A civil war is when two groups fight for control of the government.  The Southern states had no interest in the government in Washington.  *The Southern states withdrew from the US and formed the Confederate States of America.  The war resulted from Lincoln invading an independent country with the intention of exploiting it economically with the Morrill Tariff.*"

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> "Everywhere in the Western World democracy is in crisis and collapse. Democracy has become so dysfunctional that executive authority is superseding it.   > > "When democracy fails, the choice becomes revolution or a Caesar."

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> "The “Russian Enemy” is very important to many pocketbooks.  #Trump is trying, or so it seems, to get rid of the Russian enemy for us, by passing the task of the Ukrainian conflict on to Europe which will purchase US weapons to continue the conflict. This way we are free of the conflict, but the profit interests of the military-security complex are not threatened."

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> "George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the neoconservatives gave us 9/11 and a quarter century of war in the Middle East resulting in the destruction of 6 countries and millions of displaced persons who fled to the West and destabilized European countries and the UK. > > "To facilitate the profits, budgets, and influence of the military/security complex, American civil liberties protected by the Constitution were erased by laws deemed necessary in order to protect us from an alleged “terrorism,” which was itself an orchestration." --Paul Craig Roberts, ["Revolution or a Caesar?](

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> "President Nixon was making arms control agreements with the Soviets and opened to China. The military/security interests did not want to lose the communist enemy that enhanced their profits, and they went to work on Nixon.  Growing suspicions about the assassination of President Kennedy foreclosed the physical assassination of Nixon, so they assassinated him politically with the Watergate orchestration.  The bullet that hit President Reagan did not kill him, and the official narrative was accepted.  Nevertheless, the CIA was opposed to Reagan’s idea of negotiating the end of the Cold War with the Kremlin."

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> "Essentially, governments are agencies that influential private interests use to feather their own nest at the expense of others.  The reason is that the President, and the members of the House and Senate obtain office courtesy of those private interests that provide their campaign funds.  Therefore, it is the monied interests that government serves. > > "Somehow the notion of a 'public interest' has survived the many decades of contrary evidence."

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