CIVIL WAR?! HOW Likely After American Election 2020? | Expose
In this video, we explore how a Second American Civil War may be yet to come after election day 2020 for this 2020 presidential election between Donald J. Trump & Mike Pence and Joe Biden (Joseph R. Biden) & Kamala Harris in the United States. Whether you're Red or Blue, Democrat or Republican, politics is politics and history gives us a purview of why this may come to pass in these current events. The world is watching on this news. . .
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“This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.” -- James P. Hoffa
For us to understand where we are going and what may be yet to come after this presidential election between Donald J. Trump and Joseph R. Biden, we must understand that people are in a lot of aspects, cyclical and repetitive. As such, looking back often allows us to look ahead. History tends to repeat itself as they say. Today we are not faced with red versus blue. We are faced with a division of belief of how life should be lived and operated in America. We had an America ripe with strife and intolerance. It was April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865. This was the time of the Civil War in America and it may be the key to understanding if after November 3rd 2020, we may be on our way to another one.
Chapter 1: Class, Class, Class
Classism is as old as time, however, something today is different. The classist divide is wider than its ever been and more outspoken and in our faces. There is a belief on how America should move forward, similarly this was also rumbling in the press and communities back in the 19th century. Jason Phillips author of Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future writes:
“WHILE SOME AMERICANS IMAGINED a civil war sparked by competition for the frontier, others envisioned a sectional conflict between rival classes and economies. Radicals in both regions imagined an unavoidable battle between free labor and slavery…ANXIOUS FINANCIAL OBSERVERS FORECASTED a clash between northern and southern labor systems. Senator William Seward prophesied an “irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces” that meant (p.61) ‘the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.’”[1]
If you pay attention you can see a eerily similar desire in today’s America. Michael J. Boskin points out the hotly contested debates that led to the formation and creation of a new ideology under NAFTA’s inception. [2] A move towards more free trade was incepted. Now we have the USMCA act that replaced NAFTA, but the results are still the same. A move towards open and free trade by some – until one point both political parties just in different amounts as a previous Republican party did support trade – with now a wider opposition against it by others. Donald Trump’s platform after all has been putting America first and first in all aspects of trade agreements. It is straight out of a populist playbook. A wide dichotomy such as this is similar to a two sect belief system that existed between the North and the South in the 19th century when debating if labor systems should include slavery or not.
Chapter 2: Why Does Populism Matter?
Populism creates an ‘Other’. This ‘Other’ is usually defined as an enemy against the masses. The ‘Other’ can be anyone or anything, but usually is a powerful force or powerful set of people from which the people can thrust their blame and grievances upon desiring retribution. Francisco Panizza author of Populism and the Mirror of Democracy describes it succinctly as thus:
“Populism is thus a mode of identification available to any political actor operating in a discursive field in which the notion of the sovereignty of the people and its inevitable corollary, the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, are core elements of its political imaginary.”[3]
Does this sound familiar to anyone who has been watching any amount of television the last four years? Or am I taking crazy pills? Populism grinds a blade of autonomy within it. This idea of taking power back from the elites. Restoring what was taken from you by those too powerful to stop. Populism usually includes a strongman figure (in our case that would be Donald Trump) that will fight ‘The Establishment’ on your behalf. Let’s explore with a little bit more history this idea of autonomy. Christopher Clausen writes that autonomy and racial oppression were not on paper tied hand-in-hand to the reasoning of secession by the South. Yes, slavery did make the divide unable to reach a brokerage, but at hand was the idea that secessionists believed their actions prime, just, and traditional. It was a preemptive strike against the counterrevolution they saw the Republicans were creating.[4] Looking at today’s climate, the similarities are eerily. This stopped being a fight for Red & Blue, Left or Right, on Policies, but has morphed and continues to morph on how life should be lived. It’s a value based society we have entered into. How should one person live. What is the right or wrong way of living is what is on America’s table.
Chapter 3: Their End Explains Our Future
If we are to explain what we may be encountering very soon it again helps to look to the past to see how civil wars were ultimately resolved and a normative state of acceptance of difference was reached (mostly). Viewing history’s lens in this regard enables us to envision how America can move forward together again. Caroline Hartzell, gives a few examples in her piece Stabilizing the Peace after Civil War: An Investigation of Some Key Variables. Two strong factors she purports is the failure to include an out group or minority group within the country’s leadership/administration to help quell tensions, and building horizontally on that, a strong, robust, and stabile leadership/administration. Examples they give include the Sri Lanken prejudice and unfair treatment of the Tamil people for the former example and the instability of the Congolese President Laurant Kabila for the latter example.[5] In essence, what this means is bridging the divide by the administration in control, trying to find middle ground and including the opposing faction in positions of leadership with buy-in. No matter which administration wins out, this information is vital to adopt and implement lest we prove again how history will repeat itself.
Chapter 4: Where Do We Go From Here?
This topic is quite vast and I am no Civil War expert, but I do enjoy reading and pay attention to history and trends, and should we not try and bridge our divides then America will suffer Currently we are at a fracture wherein each side sees the other as a harbinger of the end. The symptoms of ‘The Other’ have settled in and dehumanizing tactics are already taking root in the typical Us-Versus-Them mentality. America has avoided a complete breakdown for many years due to the strength of our institutions and belief in their ability to work. Many countries have succumbed and lost their democracy; America’s exceptionalism isn’t exceptional enough to avoid a similar fate. If you agreed and enjoyed this video, share it on social media to help inform your friends and reach out to someone you disagree with and start a dialogue. Simple moves like this can bridge our current divide and restore us. We are all in this together.
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[1] Phillips, Jason. Looming Civil War : How Nineteenth-century Americans Imagined the Future. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018.
[2] Boskin, Michael J. NAFTA at 20. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2014.
[3] Piazza, Francisco. Populism and the Mirror of Democracy. Accessed November 3, 2020.
[4] Clausen, Christopher. America's changeable Civil War: a century and a half after the first state seceded from the Union, a lively debate over what caused the Civil War continues. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Spring 2010. Accessed November 3, 2020.
[5] Hartzell, Caroline, Matthew Hoddie, and Donald Rothchild. "Stabilizing the Peace after Civil War: An Investigation of Some Key Variables." International Organization 55, no. 1 (2001): 183-208. Accessed November 6, 2020.
