by David Haggith, The Great Recession Blog:

As US troops surround the Lincoln Memorial to protect it from vandals, one is reminded of the Civil War, over which this guarded stone president once presided. Those desecrating US memorials to leaders who helped Blacks in American society may be nothing more than rioting opportunists during the George Floyd protests. They may have nothing to do with Black Lives Matter, or they may be people whose rage is so overflowing they will destroy even the good around them.

I haven’t talked to them, so I don’t know. What I do know, and the reason I’m writing this exposé, is that the nation is enraged and perfuse with civil unrest in just the manner I described in my writings about the dawning Epocalypse. These are the times I said were coming soon to try men’s souls.

What I do know and have presented proof of in my last article is that George Floyd was executed in broad daylight by the police, so the George Floyd protests should be happening but not with the violence that only clouds the issue and damages their cause. (And I’m one who rarely takes the side of opposing tough police.)

What I also do know is that Lincoln, now threatened by riots and protests, once championed the belief that Black lives matter and helped start the nation toward later moves that made clear that Black lives are considered in our national founding documents as being “created equal.” Lincoln pursued that belief at the cost of bringing civil war to the nation.

A nation divided

Lincoln was willing to take the whole nation to war in large part to make certain Black lives do matter throughout the nation and to make sure the nation did not continue to benefit from Black exploitation. There were other factors in the Civil War, such as states’ rights over federal control, that also fueled the battle; but Lincoln made sure the war was especially about liberating Blacks from the bondage of slavery.

Ironically, the war that has divided the nation through more than a century was fought over holding it together, yet the fractures from that war remain firmly in place today as we continue more than a century and a half later to argue over the removal of Confederate flags and memorials way down south in Dixie … or at the old borders between North and South in Virginia, a state that split in half due to the Civil War.

Ironically, the riots that threatened the Lincoln Memorial could have desecrated the Great White Champion of Black Lives as rage now boils over and creates the matrix of hatred and heat that America-hating anarchists like Antifa and opportunists like looters and vandals thrive in. These bacteria of human degeneration thrive in an overheated swamp. They are also present in this turmoil.

This exposé didn’t start out to be about who is right or wrong because the heat and the hatred is complicated by all kinds of rights and wrongs involved in the mix. What I intended to write about is the simple fact all can agree on, which is that civil unrest is tearing the nation apart.

Where some might disagree with me is with my belief that the violent hearts that turn protests over the wrongful death of George Floyd into looting and destruction are just as inexcusable as the hearts of those who killed George Floyd.

I’ve said in my writings, that social turmoil would become a dominant trend in the period of economic collapse we are now entering. This article’s purpose began as just laying out how quickly and to what degree that has become true. That social anger is not just seen in the George Floyd protests or Black Lives Matter, but in other recent protests that were already sweeping our divided nation over COVID-19, which this article is also about.

These are desperate times in which corruption and greed have flourished, in which society has become more divided, Right and Left, and up and down (as in top 1% and bottom 99%). Those divisions are being held together by heavy government control, which will make unrest wilder and more common.

As Lincoln famously said, quoting Jesus,

“A house divided against itself, cannot stand.”

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

It will become all one thing or all the other.

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At present, it looks like the nation is determined to become all divided.

Our economic policies assure that divide. They are not the only cause by any means, but they are a great reinforcement. It is a nation where the Haves have too long had, and the remaining 99% have not. There are many kinds of Have-nots, of course, and Black lives are often one kind. (Are there any Blacks in the 1%? It looks a lot like a good-ol-boys’ club of White bankers to me.) There are also a lot of angry Native Have-nots … and White Have-nots. The Haves would love to keep the Have-nots divided and warring with each other so they don’t unite against the tiny number of Haves.

We have added to those longstanding economic policies almost four years of turning up the heat over nationality and color rhetorically with unmeasured words. A smarter president could have limited and policed immigration by building a strong public case with wise words in the ways that Lincoln did without needlessly and destructively turning up the racially charged heat. I would have liked a wiser man to wage the immigration battle and to attack the liberal press with richer humor (ala Reagan).

The president who deepened our divisions

My battle, which I’ve sometimes brought up on this site, is not against nationality or race but against overpopulation with too many people of any kind — even my own kind — who come just to use the United States and who, in many cases, don’t even like the United States or its existing culture. We don’t need more overpopulation and should not accept it. I’m sick of overdevelopment as an economic model.

My battle is against illegal immigration, which leaves cracks for terrorists to enter, but I don’t want to see desperate immigrants demonized for being desperate. In their shoes, I might break the law to get in, too, given my alternatives. I don’t blame them, though I want to send them back; I blame leaders in both parties who have too long turned a blind eye to illegal immigration.

My battle is against creating a peasant population for a cheap labor force that helps mostly big corporate types while hurting US workers. Allowing so much immigration for poor nations has suppressed wages for so many decades in some industries, such as farming, to where, of course, Americans don’t want those jobs. They would have to want in a tin huts like the competing immigrants to survive. That’s why both parties have turned a blind eye to illegal immigration for decades. It served their rich supporters. It’s a social divide created by greed, not compassion. Keeping them illegal while allowing them in has assured they would mostly keep their mouths shut about their horrible working conditions, which were far better than what they left in their home nations.

My battle is against economic strategies allowed to proliferate for so many decades that changing them now would be catastrophic to industries that have built upon that semi-slavery. If we had never turned a blind eye to illegal immigration just to get cheap labor, industries would have evolved organically over time into forms that work with the help is available locally.

And Trump is not my idea of the right person for those battles because he bigly amplifies the divisiveness that is already inherent in trying to make those changes.

A wise president would have built support for immigration restraint with arguments built on principles more people can agree on, instead of by charging up racism with incendiary words that often sounded racist, whether they were meant that way or not.

Words like “those Mexican rapists” may have been meant for five or six bad apples, but they were slammed out in such a ham-fisted way and never clarified as referring only to a small group among the immigrants. They were used as if that is just what most Mexicans crossing the border illegally are, and Trump was content to leave it that way because he loves stirring the pot and riling the press. He thrives on the drama. All press is good press as far as he’s concerned because it’s all free publicity that keeps him at the center of attention.

We’ve had decades of turning up the heat economically. Crony capitalists and their pocket politicians in Washington, DC, have engineered a society that kept wages locked in stagnation since the eighties by many means to the benefit of corporate owners while deliberately giving away vast wealth to the richest of all.

The Federal Reserve made certain all new money was distributed solely to the richest of the rich bankers. The government made sure special tax rates were engineered to the benefit the rich alone by focusing breaks on the area where the rich make most of their money — capital gains — where few others have the disposable resources to play.

Always, it was done with the promise that crumbs would trickle down through the cracks in the table for the dogs below to eat. They never trickled, and that is all part of the rage across America now.

It is also why I’ve said during the developing Epocalypse — the next recession (the now recession) when the Everything Bubble breaks — the nation will be divided as it hasn’t been since the Civil War or, at least, since the 60’s rebellions.

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