Stop

There's a book out there, Stop the Coming Civil War  that will make anyone paying attention here say, "Why? You know you can't."

A perusal of the blurb on the back cover  indicates that it's all the librul's fault. Not that it makes any difference, really.

The possible - perhaps immediate - response is to imagine folks in 1859 saying the same thing. "These abolitionists are out of control! John Brown attempted sedition using a federal armory for supplies! We are doomed if we continue down this path! We cannot afford having these upstart Republicans in power!" Perhaps it was actually said, and ultimately it was true enough, and it was a bloody road they all trod 150 years ago. Some forces cannot be stopped. When the time comes they have to be released and either accepted, rejected, or fought over to the very point of blood and death. 

It appears, though, that Mr. Savage actually sees many of the same problems that folks on Daily Kos do. The difference - almost the only difference - is that he assigns the blame in another direction. Indeed, both Kos and Savage have similar solutions:  "We have too much concentrated power in the government! Giving even more power to the people I supports\ will fix it!"