text: InFocus: Calls for a new counter-extremism strategyForeign Affairs, the media outlet run by the Council on Foreign Relations, tends to be a harbinger of societal change. In 2019, they published an issue that called for “a new nationalism,” which is the basis for my Old America versus New America theory on our low intensity conflict. In short, the ongoing cultural revolution is erasing Old America ideals – capitalism, evangelical Christianity, individual and national sovereignty – and replacing them with New America ideals – socialism, woke Christianity and the state as religion, collective rights, and globalism. This is the fight over the future of America, and the Left is winning.Following the 06 January 2021 Capital protest, we heard from retired generals, former national security and law enforcement officials, and political pundits on the need to build a domestic counterinsurgency strategy. There were calls for the creation of a new domestic intelligence agency, the expansion and redirection of academic countering violence extremism (CVE) programs targeting Islamic extremism, federal budget increases to fund domestic counter-extremism efforts, and a top-to-bottom search for extremist ties in the government and military. We are seeing this shift in federal resources now. Last week in Foreign Affairs, an extremist researcher at the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University outlined a plan to counter the Far Right in the United States: educate parents, caregivers, teachers, social workers, and others about how to recognize extremist ideologies. The lab’s director called to move much of the existing strategy away from employment by the Department of Homeland Security to an interagency task force “controlled exclusively by the security and intelligence sectors” and expand funding to state and local governments. This approach would put less of a burden on law enforcement and give more responsibility to educational programs and social change advocates. In 2021, PERIL and the Southern Poverty Law Center jointly published an anti-extremism guide that enables a slew of front-line observers, such as parents and teachers, to recognize the warning signs of extremism. (You can find this document here: https://forwardobserver.com/library) Of course, in almost all cases, “extremism” in society is a euphemism for Far Right ideologies. In a country of inclusivity, it rarely includes violent radical and revolutionary ideologies of the Far Left. – M.S.Civil War 2 Roll-UpNPR: “Imagine another American Civil War, but this time in every state”. The article cites scholars who say that the US is already in geographical conflict, with bordering states adopting very different laws and stances on social issues. The author points out that there are also political, social, and economic differences in the rural-urban divide, with large metro areas in 2020 going for Biden while populations fewer in number but representing a larger landmass went for Trump. Conclusion: we are two nations occupying 50 states, making the potential for violent conflict a nationwide issue. [source: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/11/1071082955/imagine-another-american-civil-war-but-this-time-in-every-state]