Is National Divorce Anti-Liberty?
Ep. 2188 Is National Divorce Anti-Liberty?
The Only Solution to a Second American Civil War is a Thousand Little Revolutions
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way […]
Is the United States Facing a Legitimacy Crisis?
The long-term decline of trust in government indicates that our political system has been struggling to meet the public’s expectations for over half a century. Matthew Thomas Many people are saying that the United States is in the grip of a legitimacy crisis. In the social sciences, legitimacy […]
Jeff Deist on Trump, the FBI, and National Divorce
Ep. 2185 Jeff Deist on Trump, the FBI, and National Divorce
The new era of political violence is here
By Tom Nichols, The Atlantic I’ve been thinking about the threats against law enforcement and Trump’s barely veiled warning to Attorney General Merrick Garland about a “country on fire.” We should no longer wonder if we can avert a new era of political violence in the United States. […]
Texas Republicans want a vote on ‘Texas Independence.’ But can Texas secede from the union?
By Nusaiba Mizan Politifact The Texas Republican Convention on June 18 called for the state Legislature to approve a measure asking voters whether they favor “Texas Independence.” That is, a referendum on secession. The GOP platform committee wrote, “We urge the Texas Legislature to pass bill [sic] in its next session […]
One issue where Republicans and Democrats agree? They don’t want to secede
by David Freddoso, Online Opinion Editor Washington Examiner Do you think your state would be better off or worse off if it left the United States and became an independent country?” That question, asked of 1,672 adults in the latest Yahoo!/YouGov poll, is certainly provocative. So are the […]
Opinion: Secession is not the solution
By JEFFREY FRENKIEWICH Concord Monitor Jeff Frenkiewich is a Milford Middle School social studies teacher and a UNH adjunct professor In recent years, the idea of secession as a solution for America’s political divide has gained increased popularity, particularly on the Right. After Donald Trump’s loss in the […]
Secession backer says poll shows majority of San Bernardino County voters support the move
By Beau Yarbrough The Press-Enterprise The man who first proposed San Bernardino County secede from California says voters are ready to do so — and he says he has the survey data to prove it. “I think it’s going to be a super-majority,” real estate developer Jeff Burum […]
Secession is now thinkable, even in the Intermountain West
By Andrew Bjelland | Salt Lake City Tribune Two national polls indicate current tensions have again triggered secessionist impulses. The poll results are perhaps less significant than the pollsters’ decisions to address this issue. According to a Bright Line Watch survey, within the Intermountain West 43% of […]
Poll: Many red-state Trump voters say they’d be ‘better off’ if their state seceded from U.S.
By Andrew Romano Yahoo News! West Coast Correspondent Red-state Donald Trump voters are now more likely to say they’d be personally “better off” (33%) than “worse off” (29%) if their state seceded from the U.S. and “became an independent country,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. It’s […]
Americans Are Too Pampered and Neurotic to Fight a Civil War
By Bonnie Kristian “Tomorrow is war,” right-wing media personality Steven Crowder tweeted Monday night after news broke of the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property. Bright and early the next morning, Crowder was back—with details. “Today is war. That is all you will get on […]
Sam Francis: Prophet of America’s Decline
By Clyde Williamson, Chronicles For several decades before his death in 2005, Samuel T. Francis was a major voice of Chronicles and paleoconservatism in America. He was widely admired as an outstanding public commentator, winning awards for his incisive and eloquent writing. Unfortunately, he was attacked by neoconservative […]
Rise of the Network State | Balaji Srinivasan
Balaji Srinivasan is an investor, founder, and Former CTO of Coinbase and GP at a16z and author of The Network State, which will be the main focus of the podcast today. The Network State explores ideas surrounding digital communities and the future of how we coordinate as a […]
The Future of The United States: Why Balaji Srinivasan Predicts American Anarchy
Watch my third interview with Balaji Srinivasan here: https://youtu.be/FV5SqIm5e90 | Brought to you by Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating (https://www.eightsleep.com/tim/), Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement (https://www.athleticgreens.com/tim/), and Shopify global commerce platform, providing tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail […]
Russia or the New World Order
By Alan Bickley, Free Life In 2003, most opposition to the Iraq War was confined to the argument that intervention there would do no good to the people of Iraq or in the intervening countries. This soon turned out to be a true argument, and those of us […]
The Initial Stages of the ATS Analytical Framework Are Now Taking Place
I have written about many topics here at Attack the System over the past 22 years, with a focus on outlining a predictive narrative of how world geopolitics and domestic US politics would likely evolve in the future. The core emphasis has been to develop a theoretical framework […]
Western “Experts” and “Intellectuals” Have Become Progressively Incompetent
By PharmaHeretic In an older post, I wrote about how the current generation of political “leaders” in western countries are parasitic PMC-types without any redeeming qualities. What makes this phenomenon especially interesting is that other institutions and areas in the west have seen an identical degradation in their […]
Welcome to the Third World
By Matt Taibbi The FBI really better have something “pulverizing” on Trump, because otherwise we’ve just witnessed one of the dumbest moves in the history of politics. Secret service outside Mar-a-Lago Monday [The Justice Department] must immediately explain the reason for its raid and it must be […]
Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon, survey finds
By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science Findings suggest rising gun violence will spill into the political sphere, driven by conspiracy theories Violence can seem to be everywhere in the United States, and political violence is in the spotlight, with the 6 January 2021 insurrection as exhibit A. Now, a […]
Expert on civil wars says the US is heading toward insurgency — the 21st-century version of civil war
By Erin Snodgrass Business Insider An expert in political violence says extremists could be leading the US toward a modern-day civil war. Barbara F. Walter, a political science professor at the University of California at San Diego, spoke to The Washington Post earlier this year about the perilous […]
Can America Afford to Lead the World?
By Doug Bandow, The American Conservatism How long can the bankrupt American republic attempt to run the world? President Joe Biden is the foreign policy equivalent of an alcoholic. He can’t get enough of U.S. meddling around the world. Although he withdrew American forces from the endless Afghan […]
Malcolm Nance: Behind the Ideology of the Trump Insurgency
In the post-2020 world, Americans, having faced the controversies of the 2020 election and the January 6 insurrection, may be tempted to do their best to forget these events and move on — yet to bestselling author Malcolm Nance, this is the worst thing they can do. As […]
Americans Are Fleeing The U.S. & Moving To Europe
Factors that include soaring real estate prices across the country, an increasingly strong dollar, and political strife at home are combining to drive an increasing number of Americans to flee the country and purchase homes in Europe, specifically countries of southern Europe like Italy, Spain and Portugal. A […]
El Nino Speaks 49: Is Collapse Around the Corner
Jose Alberto Nino LISTEN HERE Candid conversation with Dmitry Orlov about the potential for an economic collapse in the United States. Subscribe now Share Could the United States experience a systemic collapse in the next few decades? Russian-American engineer and collapse researcher Dmitry Orlov makes the case […]
‘US Imperialism Is In Crisis’
Journalist Ben Norton discusses why U.S. Imperialism is in profound crisis right now and what a multipolar world could look like. Ben Norton is a journalist, the editor of Multipolarista (https://multipolarista.com/) and a former editor at The Grayzone.
What Happens If We Come Apart?
The geographically non-contiguous fragmentations we see today might well be a prelude to something like Balaji Srinivasan’s concept of the “network state,” which itself is only a few steps removed from the “panarchic” concept of non-territorial governments of Paul Emile de Puydt, Gustave Molinari, Max Nettlau, and John […]
The American Century Is Over, w/ Daniel Bessner
In his recent Harper’s cover piece, “Empire Burlesque,” Daniel Bessner traced the evolution of the foreign policy vision that defined the so-called American century and how it has been reshaped by failures and a changing world order, including a new multipolarity and the rise of China. He draws […]
HALF Of Americans Say Civil War IMMINENT
Krystal combs through the civil war discourse on the right and left particularly with partisan media viewers that represents deep fissures among the American people
33% Americans Say May Be Soon Necessary To TAKE UP ARMS Vs CORRUPT Govt
Associate editor at Reason, Liz Wolfe, discusses a new poll that shows nearly one in three Americans feel it may be necessary to take up arms against the government.
Up in Smoke: How “weed smell” became a potent boogeyman of American decline
By Rebecca Onion Slate How “weed smell” became a potent boogeyman of American decline. Last Friday at a press conference, New York Mayor Eric Adams answered a New York Post reporter’s question about the record-breaking number of odor complaints placed with New York City’s 311 service so far […]
America Headed for ‘Real Economic Pain’: Top Investment Firm
By Zoe Strozewski Newsweek A top investment management firm warned that the United States could see “real economic pain” before the Federal Reserve “changes course” in its efforts to combat rising inflation. BlackRock addressed the issue of rising costs in its 2022 Midyear Global Outlook report that was […]
Civil War 2.0? Why Splitting Up Would Be a $100 Trillion Mistake
By Sam Hill and Hank Gilman, Newsweek There’s a lot of chatter these days, sometimes wistful, about Civil War 2.0. Recently, Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican, said Texas could take its oil, NASA and go its own way. In January, professor Barbara Walter warned of the possibility […]
America’s Descent Into Madness, w/ Chapo’s Felix Biederman & Rania Khalek
From his perch at the Chapo Trap House podcast, Felix Biederman has been an acerbic observer and commentator. He joined Dispatches with Rania Khalek for a wide-ranging discussion about America’s cultural and political decline. Listen to every episode of Dispatches with Rania Khalek anywhere you get podcasts. Apple: […]
America: The Last Ideological Empire
By Arta Moeini, Compact What explains America’s hyper-ideological response to the Ukraine crisis? Less than a year before Vladimir Putin launched his invasion, Washington had wrapped up two decades of lousy regime-change wars, waged in the name of planting “freedom” in that region’s inhospitable soil. There was, or […]
On the Inevitable Decline of the American Empire
By Sol 太阳 쏠 Before we can talk about the current state and trajectory of the existing empire, we need to ask basic questions about what empires are and why they exist… SOCIETY STRUCTURE Human society has its original basis in small Paleolithic hunter-gatherer tribes. Then, with the […]
Americans are Living in an Unprecedented Time of Decline
Geopolitics and Empire Kurt Schlichter: Americans are Living in an Unprecedented Time of Decline Kurt Schlichter discusses the fall, potential collapse, and possible resurgence of America. The apex of U.S. power was the 1990s where Washington stood militarily unchallenged, but the tables have turned as today Russia and […]
California Secession: A Serious Option for Many Right Now
By Joe Matthews, LA Progressive To encourage us to think about the unthinkable, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sets a Doomsday Clock, showing how close humanity is (in metaphorical minutes and seconds) to the “midnight” of the apocalypse (nuclear or otherwise) and human extinction. California may now […]
America Is F*cked
Incidentally, as soon as I saw that Krystal Ball had COVID… well, for obvious reasons, I knew Kyle would have it too.
88% Americans Say US Is On The WRONG TRACK, Young Voters Disapprove Of Biden: Poll
Olayemi Olurin and Robby Soave discuss new polling numbers on the Biden Administration, and Democrats in Congress.
A Post-American 4th of July in the Bay Area
By Robert Stark I spent the 4th of July Weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area with Matt Pegas (check out his Substack). The trip was short, but I was able to take in enough observations of the region to compare it to past trips. My observations solidify […]
Is democracy in America really coming apart?
I generally agree with the assessment of the Republicans in this interview, with some qualifications, although I think Lucan Way is too soft on the Democrats. He’s not uncritical but still too soft. The Signal Is democracy in America really coming apart? Lucan Way on the challenges and […]
A Fascist Coup in 2024?
Thom Hartmann sure seems to think so. Read the thread on Twitter here. Whether what Hartmann is describing is hyperbolic and fanciful or not, I do think that a coup from the right in the US would look somewhat like what Hartmann is describing. Efforts to create a […]
The Second American Civil War
By Paul Fahrenheidt It’s inevitable, and I’m tired of pretending it’s not. Introduction Today is July 2nd, 2022. One-hundred and fifty-nine years ago today, John Bell Hood charged up the slopes of Little Round Top at the cost of his left arm, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain charged down […]
‘So much worse than we thought’: GOP pollster on potential political violence in America
Republican pollster Neil Newhouse and former Obama pollster Joel Benenson speak with CNN’s John King about a poll they conducted that showed more than a quarter of Americans think it may be necessary to take up arms against the government and that most Americans think their government is […]
Jason Stanley: U.S Headed to a One Party State Unless “Americans Wake Up” |
Jason Stanley, an expert on authoritarianism, has been an adviser to the January 6 committee. The author of “How Fascism Works” speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about the hearings and the state of democracy in America.
HOW CIVIL WAR TWO WILL HAPPEN?
By Keith Preston The federal system collapses like the USSR/Warsaw Pact. Minorities of Reds/Blues are behind enemy lines. Migration like the India/Pakistan partition begins. Massive violence happens. Hundreds of warring factions emerge like Syria and Lebanon. Another possibility would be a situation like Northern Ireland during the time […]
Public Confidence In Supreme Court Sinks To 25%, Poll Says
Shit, that’s worse than Brandon and probably even Kamala, lol. By Carlie Porterfield Forbes Staff Only one in four Americans say they are confident in the Supreme Court—the lowest rate on record—according to a Gallup poll released Thursday, with respondents answering the question in the weeks leading up […]
Ruling Class Propaganda Make Americas Collapse Unavoidable
I can only give it to you straight.
ANOTHER Poll Shows HALF Of U.S. Think Civil War is Coming w/Dennis Prager
Guest: Dennis Prager @PragerU (YouTube & all other platforms)
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