Oh boy…it is hitting the fan big time. Thankfully it is only weird political party rhetoric at this point but it could grow into something worse.

So we need to be vigilant and understand the difference between just talk and what may foreshadow real problems.

The main problem…most people don’t see the real problem(s) or the real perpetrators behind those problems..at least not at first, for the most part. Most people would rather fight political battles and create contention between victims vs overcoming and defeating the true culprits. Wait, “culprits” really isn’t a strong enough word…maybe criminals…maybe evil…maybe enemy. Take your choice.

Let’s talk crazy town first –

There are variations of the claim, and the “why”, but under it all is people believing Trump’s intentions were that Republicans would lose the mid-terms and lose control of both houses of Congress. To that I ask,

“What did Trump actually do before the election that demonstrates he intended Republicans to lose?”

Then there is the kind of stuff of conspiracy theories…

1 – Trump’s 3D-chess strategy deliberately sacrificed Congress so Democrats would expose themselves before the elections in 2028.

Trump can’t even spell chess let alone know play it. And at 80 his mental capacity has diminished a lot…and many of his recent appearances show that.

2 – Trump is secretly working for Democrats. Alex Jones suggested Trump might actually be a Democratic operative who infiltrated the Republican movement. On election night, Jones called him the ultimate Democrat sleeper cell and declared that he was now opposed to Trump.

While Trump may be a truly terrible president, he doesn’t appear to be a Democrat operative to me. Could he be an “operative” for some other movement? There might be a strong case for that…but it ain’t the Democrats.

3 – The Establishment Republicans deliberately sabotaged MAGA.

Former Fox News journalist Lara Logan suggested that unnamed establishment Republicans conspired to produce the defeat so they could eliminate MAGA’s influence and regain control of the Republican Party.

Absurd. Anyone would know that if the Repubs got defeated in the mid-terms, their chances of roaring back in 2028 to win the presidency would be nearly impossible. MAGA makes-up 60% of the Republican Party and the RNC leadership is MAGA. MAGA is the establishment Republicans.

4 – Conservative media personalities deliberately undermined Republicans.

OAN’s Dan Ball blamed Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Joe Rogan for dividing MAGA and contributing to the Republican defeat, particularly in Texas. Other commentators have made similar accusations about influential conservative podcasters.

Hang on…so Carlson, Rogan, & Kelly seeing Trump’s presidency for what it is, and expressing their opinion on that subject, tanked the Republicans?

So that means the three of them have more power over voters vs Trump himself…really? That means Trump has little influence in getting Republicans elected. Well now…that is weird.

5 – The election was stolen or manipulated. Allegations about fraudulent mail ballots, non-citizen voting, and manipulated election results.

Sure…1/2 of the states had elections manipulated without a single legitimate claim being made or pursued in the courts. Uh huh…right.

Look leave “crazy town”…get out…leave it behind…see it only in your rear-view mirror. There is no legitimate conspiracy about the mid-term elections. The Republican Party got their rear-ends handed to them…Big Time!

Why? Because Republicans suck with a terrible 50-year old track record. And…Trump was/is a horrible president whose policies and actions have severely hurt America. The average American family got hurt badly over the last two years…and the economy has been beat up like Stephan Miller in the ring with an MMA fighter.

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Now, let’s talk civil war –

There isn’t any civil war occurring in the United States at this time. Period!

Well, I might not be entirely accurate. A strong case could be made for a “soft” civil war is taking place.

But as of now there is no major (or even serious minor) violence taking place that would move this into a traditional civil war. Could that happen? Yes. But I pray it doesn’t…and so should you.

However, there are two more minor civil wars taking place…loud, obnoxious, and they might just determine the course of the United States. One is in the Republican Party and the other is in the Democrat Party. And for both of those conflicts…there are no good guys and therefore no good guys are winning either conflict.

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But let’s talk about the real not so soft civil war occurring in the USA…good vs evil. And evil is winning. Let’s do some numbers:

• 1900 there were 312,000 federal employees, in 2026 2.7 million employees.
• 1900 the federal government took 3% of the country’s GDP, in 2026 it took 5.5%.
• 1900 about 2,500 federal law enforcement officers, in 2026 there are 134,000.
• 1900 $0 dollars taken from US citizens in income taxes, in 2026 $2.7 trillion taken from US taxpayers.
• 1900 budget surplus of $79.5 million, in 2026 $2 trillion budget deficit.
• 1900 there were 9000 federal statutes on the books, in 2026 there are 60,000 federal statutes.
• 1900 there were approximately 5,000 federal regulations, in 2026 there are 190,000 federal regulations.
• 1900 the military size was 126,000, in 2026 there are 1,350,000 military personnel (+ another 700,000 civilians).
• 1900 there were about 20 overseas military installations and outposts, in 2026 there are over 750…in 160 countries.
• 1900 – 2026 there were 250 U.S. foreign military interventions, wars, armed conflicts, etc.
• 1900 – 2026 there were approximately 45 countries where the United States directly participated in overthrowing a government or attempted regime change through covert operations.
• 1900 – 2026 approximately 15 foreign leaders were targeted in U.S.-connected assassination plots.

Are you getting the point yet?

You can do the math. You can to do the reasoning with the numbers. It is pretty clear who is at war with whom.

But it is far, far worse than that…worse than you can even imagine. Let me run some more numbers, the meat grinder of war;

From 1900 – 2026, excluding WW2*, there have been at least 660,000 military service personnel wounded and 225,000 killed.

Current veterans suffering from PTSD…more than 1,760,000.

Current veterans who have one or more service related disabilities…more than 6,400,000.

And if this next number doesn’t bring a tear to your eye and break your heart…just since 2000 there has been more than 155,000 veteran suicides. That is 18 per day!!

There is always talk about “blood and treasure” when talking about the cost of war…let’s talk treasure since we already talked blood.

Excluding WW2* America has spent just at $12,000,000,000,000 ($12trillion) on America’s military adventurism.

If you count all the money spent to maintain America’s military presence at home and around the world, excluding WW2*, the cost has been approximately $70trillion.

Not only is the United States government spending us into oblivion to maintain a global war machine…it is a meat grinder of America’s men and women.

Ask yourself two really basic questions:

1 – What if the US had spent say ½ of that $70trillion on something far more productive…like medical research. Or better yet…just let American families keep the $35trillion dollars to spend on their own families!

2 – What if the United States government hadn’t sent a quarter million Americans to their death, think of what those men and women might have become, what they might have accomplished!

Would one of them cured cancer? Maybe another found how to stop the spread of some major disease? Or maybe they would just have been really good parents, grandparents and productive members of American society?

Let me throw one more at you…since 1900 there have been between 300,000 – 450,000 veteran suicides. Can you imagine the heartache, despair, grief, and loneliness that would not have been experienced by their mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, sons, daughters, sisters, and brothers?

I want you to think through all these numbers. Think deep and hard. Pray about it. Ask yourself…

Who/what is the real problem with America?

It sure doesn’t sound like the people…no sir, Americans don’t sound like the problem at all.

Is there a civil war in America?

Yup, sounds like one to me…and it is pretty obvious who is losing and who is to blame.

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