The Box Prophet, Tarl Cabot, a religious icon in some small, unwashed circles, has moved back to Las Vegas to face Mammon head on and has texted me the following:
The National Anthem of the United States is going to go away...
It will be replaced with America the Beautiful.
I shit you not—mark my words, Brother and be prepared—it's only the beginning of the end.
Under the God of Things
“It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.” -Margaret Thatcher
“Notice how even liberals cannot openly attack your happiness. They need to find an excuse, however silly, be it global warming, meat shortage, or just unfairness, to justify having the government seize the happiness of others. This is because liberals need to avoid conflict.” - Anonymous Conservative 07/22/2016
He’s right. Although this is nothing new. The Leftist fringe has been pushing to replace the “Star Spangled Banner” as the National Anthem with “America the Beautiful” for at least 50 years now. Ostensibly because, being the peaceniks that they purport to be, they were offended that our National Anthem commemorates a battle. However this sort of initiative is mostly intended to vex, annoy and demoralize white conservatives and traditionalists. The Leftist rabbits are aware that social ostracism would demoralize them, so that is why they continually endeavor to inflict it on their political enemies. “Nobody likes you.” You’re a “basket of deplorables”. If Hillary is elected President and the Democrats take control of both houses of Congress then you can bet the rent money that replacing our current National Anthem (with anything at all) is likely to get pushed through. Right along with every other crackpot Leftist idea.
This is why I believe America will break up: because of irreconcilable differences between the major political factions, Left versus Right. It probably won’t even lead to a major Civil War like the last break up 155 years ago, because the current federal government is broke and won’t be able to finance a major war, and because our Leftist ruling elite is psychologically programed to avoid face to face conflict. They must use proxies for that. So a “Civil War II” will likely take the form of many local insurgencies, as various ethnic identity groups living in an area fight over remaining resources and territory. As it is going on now in our ongoing “Cold Civil War”, as John Derbyshire coined it. Sort of like the Bloody Kansas insurgency just before the “War between the States”.
“Political polarization is a direct result of the same mechanism producing micro-aggressions and trigger warnings. The left cannot face reality, and that trait is increasing in scale and scope. On the other side, reality is getting worse, and that is driving conservatives to want everyone to face it so we can right this ship before it sinks. Combined, you have political polarization.” – Anonymous Conservative 08/27/2016