The Spark
Great historic currents are often set in motion by small events. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand did not cause World War I--the cause was enmity between Austria and Russia that went back to the Crimean War, coupled with military plans that put a premium on mobilizing faster than your opponent--but provided the spark in the powder magazine. Similarly, the cause of a collapse of the republic will lie in the Washington Establishment’s adoption of the ideology of cultural Marxism, which condemns whites, men, and heterosexuals as inherently evil and thus makes enemies of a majority of Americans. But a minor event may well be the spark that sets the building ablaze.
Such a spark is in the offing. Bowing to the demands of cultural Marxism and its “woke” fanatics, the Biden Administration is moving to re-name all military bases whose present names are those of Confederate generals. This is part of the Left’s hate campaign against the South, its history, and its culture, and more broadly its demand that whites continually abase themselves before blacks (not including the blacks who fought for the Confederacy, a non-trivial number). Presumably, the bases’ new names will be those of black lesbian women, “transgendered” freaks, slaves who murdered their masters and their families or whatever else the Left can find floating in the gutter.
The people who make up the Washington Establishment know nothing about the military. Nor, for the most part, do they care about it. They find it useful when they want to ram “progressive” culture politics down the throats of recalcitrant foreigners, but otherwise they dislike men who fight--and think they can replace them with women, which is replacing guard dogs with guard cats. Should they get into a war that involves more than bombing mud huts at night from 30,000 feet, they will discover their error. In the meantime, they look at their organizational charts and say, “Well, those dumb soldiers have to do whatever we tell them to because the chart says so.”
But fighting men tend to have strong identification with things like regiments, service branches, and the historic names of their bases. The units based at places such as Ft. Bragg, Ft. Hood, and Ft. Benning identify with those names. In many cases, other family members often serve at those same bases for generations (as always, the Army’s most important recruiting ground is the rural South). All over the country retired fighting men share strong identification with the current base names. I do not find it difficult to imagine that when the new, politically correct base names are announced, the troops on those bases mutiny. If they do, they are likely to get strong support from veterans and from the communities that surround the bases.
What does the Washington Establishment do then? If it sends other military units against those resisting, they are likely to refuse the orders. So will the National Guard. So will the police. What now, Madam Under-secretary?
The events which will bring down the American Third Republic, our system of government 1865 to the present that has given us an all-powerful federal government, a closed system in Washington and an administered people, need one more cause. That cause is an economic collapse. The wild creation of dollars by the Federal Reserve and exploding national debt will bring that collapse about. Whether the timing will be such that the economy is going down just as the base-renaming hits, I do not know. I am confident that when the economic disaster hits, coupled with the rapidly intensifying culture war, the volatile mixture will find a spark. I would enjoy the irony if that spark comes courtesy of the Confederate States of America.