The Flames Of Civil War Are Being Stoked

Dividing Us and Stoking Civil War

 Selwyn Duke

Imagine that spouses in a marriage increasingly lived separate lives, socializing with different circles of friends, eating dinner apart, watching TV in separate rooms, and avoiding substantive discussion because they found it impossible to talk matters out. Wouldn’t you suspect they were heading for a break-up?

Now imagine that much of the division resulted because one spouse banned the other from his circle of friends, dinner table, and TV room and refused to discuss differences rationally, instead preferring to just hurl names. Whom would you most blame for an impending separation?

It used to be that while Americans were divided by party, they generally interacted together in other arenas such as church, community organizations, and social clubs. The modern versions of social clubs, writ large, are social media. This brings us to some striking recent news stories.

Twitter has permanently banned President Trump’s @realdonaldtrump account, and Facebook and Instagram recently suspended his accounts on their platforms (GoogTwitFace now dwarfs everyone). Michelle Obama then put in her two cents, calling on all of Big Tech to ban Trump permanently.

Similarly, popular conservative social commentator Dan Bongino has been locked out of his Twitter account, and the company has suspended the accounts of lawyer Sidney Powell and former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn, to name a few.

Moreover, conservatives across Twitter are noticing that the site has been deletingmany of their followers for the last 36 to 48 hours. This has been happening to me, too, and I initially thought it was something I’d said. (It was, actually. But what I said was Truth — and it wasn’t my followers who were offended.)

This is unsurprising, of course. Big Tech has long been censoring traditionalists (Facebook recently slapped on one of my articles a false “false information” warning). In fact, the censorship is so severe that liberal psychologist Robert Epstein has warned that the tech companies have the capacity to shift up to 15 million votes in a national election (which helps give us senile presidents).

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