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srcameron

(79 posts)
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 02:52 PM Jun 2017

The Rights' New Dog Whistle Term

They've got a new term they are using to try to hang around our necks like an albatross. It is called a "Cold Civil War". It is another attempt to repackage Pat Buchanan's culture war and blame us for it. Spread the word.

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The Rights' New Dog Whistle Term (Original Post) srcameron Jun 2017 OP
Is a cold civil war what happens after the deep state engineers a nothingburger? MrPurple Jun 2017 #1
The gang and their wars... Frustratedlady Jun 2017 #2
Death and taxes Wawannabe Jun 2017 #3
Why I Posted This. srcameron Jun 2017 #4
I'll spread the word nt ladym55 Jun 2017 #5

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
2. The gang and their wars...
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 03:04 PM
Jun 2017

I swear, they are like little 7 year old boys who never grew up...still hanging out in the club house--no girls allowed--and plotting stupid maneuvers throughout the neighborhood.  Always a bully and a snot-nosed kid, along with an instigator and a variety of other followers.  We have the bully = Trump; the snot-nosed kid = Ryan and the instigator = McConnell.

Wawannabe

(5,580 posts)
3. Death and taxes
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 03:09 PM
Jun 2017

Remember no one escapes death or taxes so, um, lots of these dudes are OLD.
DEATH and taxes will happen.

srcameron

(79 posts)
4. Why I Posted This.
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 05:52 PM
Jun 2017

I think this needs to be taken seriously. I have found the term being promoted by John Derbyshire and Angelo Codevilla on at least three sites. I believe that the two both wrote for the national review. I think the reasoning they profess is that the term means that their are two sets of Americans who can't stand each other based on issues such as religion, guns, culture and immigration, and that Progressives and Liberals are the what they call the elites who reign over the average people in a sort of conflict that is culturally and regionally like the American Civil War, but contained from actual violence like the Cold War. I think they also mean to portray us as the enemy of their freedom. It looks very much like this is a term and a set of accusations that the right may use against us in the upcoming two elections. And watch for it to come out of the mouth of Donald Trump, as the term "political correctness" spread like wildfire and was swoon used as a catch all accusation against us when George H.W. Bush used it in a commencement speech. We need to be ready to act and respond in an effective manner. If anybody knows anybody who has any leadership role in which to send this information up the line, please do. I strongly believe that this is not the last we have heard of this from the right. If we catch them quick, we may even be able to boomerang this and use it against them. But I fear our time is short.

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