Bobby Jindal: Is Louisiana’s Governor Predicting Civil War II?
Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, suggested that Americans are ready for a “hostile takeover” of the capital in a speech to the Faith and Freedom Coalition Saturday night, according to an AP report. Governor Jindal claimed that the growing hostility of the American people is in response to a war against education and religious liberty being waged by Washington.
In the light of recent and ongoing violent uprisings in the Ukraine and in Iraq, is Bobby Jindal suggesting that we could see an American Civil War II?
Speaking to more than 1,000 Evangelical leaders, Governor Bobby Jindal said:
“I am tired of the left. They say they’re for tolerance, they say they respect diversity. The reality is this: They respect everybody unless you happen to disagree with them. The left is trying to silence us and I’m tired of it, I won’t take it anymore.”
The first thing that comes to many people’s minds when they hear or read those kinds of remarks is something along the lines of, “Is Bobby serious, or is this just so much heated political rhetoric?”
Americans should keep in mind that civil war is not exactly unprecedented in our history. Our nation’s birth came about as the result of a civil war. Your history teacher may not have called it that, but the American Revolutionary War was exactly that – a civil war designed to throw off what many (not all, by a long shot) had decided were intolerable government intrusions into their lives and livelihoods. Fast forward fourscore and seven years and the nation was in the midst of another civil war – the aptly named Civil War – between Northern states, which favored keeping the union together, abolishing slavery and increasing the power and reach of the federal government and the Southern states, which favored continuing slavery, secession and states’ rights.
So if Bobby Jindal’s assessment that the American people are fed up to the point that they are ready for a hostile takeover, he may well be predicting the American Civil War II – or Civil War III if you correctly label the Revolution for what it was. Have we really gone that far?
In addition to what could be a prediction of the Civil War II, Bobby Jindal had some strong words about President Barack Obama:
“Are we witnessing right now the most radically, extremely liberal, ideological president of our entire lifetime right here in the United States of America, or are we witnessing the most incompetent president of the United States of America in the history of our lifetimes? You know, it is a difficult question. I’ve thought long and hard about it. Here’s the only answer I’ve come up with, and I’m going to quote Secretary Clinton: ‘What difference does it make?'”
Bobby Jindal is currently embroiled in a struggle to keep federal control – in the form of Common Core– out of the Louisiana public school systems. A Fox News report records an argument that hails back to states’ rights, in which Gov. Jindal said:
“We’re very alarmed about choice and local control of curriculum being taken away from our parents and educators. If other states want to allow the federal government to dictate to them, they have every right to make that choice…Now that we understand the federal overreach involved, we need to slow down and make the right decision. Some Common Core proponents suggest that we cannot have high standards without Common Core. That is a false statement.”
Bobby Jindal isn’t the first governor to ant out of Common Core. Other states to pull out of Common Core include Indiana, Oklahoma and South Carolina. Nine additional states are in the legislative process of considering pulling out of Common Core. Additionally, Arkansas, Nebraska, Virginia and Texas refused to sign on to Common Core in the first place.
Bobby Jindal did not say whether Common Core was at the heart of what he believes is making Americans ready to stage a hostile takeover or whether he believes the hostile takeover has the potential to turn into a shooting Civil War II or merely forceful demonstrations.
