What Does a "Cold" Civil War Look Like?

This was originally written by Jack Minzey and adapted with a few revisions by me.
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Have you ever wondered... how do civil wars happen?

Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can't settle the question through elections because they don't even agree that elections are how you decide who's in charge.  

That's the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.

The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it's not the first time they've done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn't really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. 

There's a pattern here.

What do you think the odds are of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican president? What does it really mean? It means they don't accept the results of any election that they don't win. It means they don't believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections.

That's a civil war.

There's no shooting in a "cold" civil war. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice by some nutcase. Admit it. You know the Democrats have rejected our system of government and that's why they're acting as they are today. Here's a prime example on the issue of immigration.

This isn't dissent. It's not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they're the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election by convincing enough voters that the party in power isn't doing it right. When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don't win, what you want is a dictatorship.

Your very own dictatorship.

The only "legitimate" exercise of power in this country, according to Democrats, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it's inherently illegitimate. The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can't scratch his own back without the judge's say so, that's the "cold" civil war.

Our system of government is based on the constitution, but that's not the system running this country today. The Democrat's system is that any part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the country.

If the Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do anything. And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. His power is unlimited. He's a dictator.

But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the President can't do anything. He isn't even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented. A Democrat in the White House has 'discretion' to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn't even have the 'discretion' to reverse him. That's how the game is played, that's how our country is run. Sad but true, although the left hasn't yet won that particular fight.

When a Democrat is in the White House, states aren't even allowed to enforce immigration law. Remember how A.G. Holder dealt with Arizona? But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission. In fact, Obama made it difficult to understand which one was safe to use. But under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries.

The Constitution has something to say about that.

Whether it's Federal or State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left shifts power around to run the country. If it controls an institution, then that institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land. Remember Lois Lerner and the IRS? This is what I call a moving dictatorship.

Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding: Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds. You can't serve in it if you're not a member. If you haven't been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals, if you aren't in the club. And Trump isn't in the club. He brought in a bunch of people who aren't in the club with him too.

Now we're seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them and they send them to jail, like Mueller's already done to Mannifort and Flynn. They use the tools of power to bring them down.

That's not a free country.

It's not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary text about taking out an 'insurance policy' against Trump winning the election. It's not a free country when Obama officials like Samantha Power engage in massive unmasking of the opposition. It's not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media. It's not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn't supposed to win did.

Have no doubt, we're in a civil war between a conservative volunteer government and a leftist Democrat professional government.

The important question remains... what will it take to cause the shift from a "cold" civil war, to a real one?