By Edward Hudgins
Originally published April 13, 2010, The Atlas Society
America is drifting toward civil war, albeit one that does not yet involve bloody battlefields.
This is not mere rhetoric. It describes a crack in the American community that since Barack Obama’s election as president has widened into a deep fissure and might split the nation apart.
The divide is not based on regional, racial, or religious differences, factors that often set neighbors at one another’s throats.
Rather, the conflict is between producers, those who work to earn their own way and prosper through their own efforts, and expropriators, those who survive by taking from others with governments as their agents.
