{"id":19661,"date":"2021-11-01T18:09:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T18:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=19661"},"modified":"2021-11-08T19:06:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T19:06:31","slug":"slow-motion-civil-war-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/01\/slow-motion-civil-war-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow motion civil war in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Lazare updates his recent article (Approaching train wreck<\/a>) on the revival of Trump’s fortunes in Joe Bidens’ USA. Right populism is making a return mightily helped by the anti-democratic US constitution. This was first posted by Weekly Worker.<\/em><\/p>\n

SLOW MOTION CIVIL WAR<\/h2>\n
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Trump supporters in Capitol building in first coup attempt on 7.1.20<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As every car-owner knows, mechanical problems do not fix themselves. Until you take the old jalopy in for a repair, they will just get worse and worse.<\/p>\n

The same goes for constitutions – especially ones as antiquated and mechanistic as the US variety. Until and unless \u201cwe, the people\u201d intervene and perform the \u2018repairs\u2019 ourselves – not in a piecemeal fashion under the constitution rules, but in a revolutionary way over the document as a whole – the breakdown will continue to the point of total system collapse.<\/p>\n

The latest example is a nine-member select committee that the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives appointed in July to look into the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection. Headed by an obscure Mississippi Democrat named Bennie Thompson, the committee is currently locked in battle with Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon over what he knew about the events leading up to January 6 and when he knew it. It is clear why the committee is so anxious to hear from Bannon: the man seems to have been remarkably well-informed about what was to occur.<\/p>\n

The day before the insurrection, he declared that the country was facing a \u201cconstitutional crisis\u201d that was \u201cabout to go up about five orders of magnitude.\u201d He told a radio audience:<\/p>\n

All hell is going to break loose tomorrow \u2026 It\u2019s not going to happen like you think it\u2019s going to happen. OK, it\u2019s going to be quite extraordinarily different \u2026 So many people said, \u2018Man, if I was in a revolution, I would be in Washington.\u2019 Well, this is your time in history.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all converging,\u201d he added, \u201cand now we\u2019re on the point of attack tomorrow.\u201d[1]<\/sup><\/a>The committee report is available at\u00a0www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21088101-bannon-contempt-report<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>