It Seems Wherever You Look, There Is Trouble Brewing
The Civil War was fought over the policy of slavery. The Civic War we are now fighting is over core ideological belief systems. I’m not sure one side will eventual acquiescence.
Back on September 30, 2025, I wrote the column “Will Approval of “Throuples” Adopting Children Pave the Way for Polygamy in the West?” In which I stated:
Back in 2015 when the U.S. Supreme Court issued the Obergefell v Hodges decision that held that the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause of the Constitution guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry, I commented that the logical conclusion of that holding would result in the legalization of polygamy. I opined that the legal case would likely come from a Muslim immigrant, not a Mormon despite the history of polygamy in Mormonism. I posited that the Free Exercise Clause would be combined with the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause to hold that the Constitution doesn’t prohibit three consenting adults from practicing their religion via polygamy. Logically, if same-sex couples could marry, then what would constitutionally prevent a man from marrying two women as permitted by their religion? After all, Islam isn’t some obscure, fringe religion—it is the second most practiced religion in the world, with roughly two billion adherents.
Many of you probably wondered why I would write a column on legalizing polygamy and throuples. I did so because it as my job to see around corners at what might be coming, so you, my dear reader, can be prepared when the rest of America is caught flatfooted. Well, no sooner did I wrote that column then two news items jumped out of Europe.
First, on November 8, 2025, The National Pulse released “Europe Is on the Brink of Recognizing Polygamy in Muslim ‘Human Rights’ Case,” in which it reported:
Europe may soon face a historic legal shift as the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) prepares to rule on whether polygamous families should be recognized under European law. The case involves Khaled Al-Anesi, a Yemeni asylum seeker who was granted refuge in the Netherlands in 2011. Al-Anesi successfully brought his first wife and their eight children to the country under family-reunification rules, but now seeks to bring his two other wives and five additional children, who remain in Turkey.
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Notably, the case marks the first time the Court has agreed to examine polygamy within Europe, and its ruling could set a far-reaching precedent for all member states. Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman condemned the potential implications of the case, warning, “Europe doesn’t have to commit this cultural suicide. It’s time to leave the ECHR.”
The debate comes amid growing concern about the Islamization of Europe. Reports indicate that the United Kingdom, for instance, now hosts around 85 sharia courts and more than 100,000 Islamic marriages not formally registered with the state. Critics argue that such developments erode Western legal norms and could pave the way for a de facto parallel legal system.
Next, on November 10, 2025, Peter Schweizer tweeted that a “German church pastor marries four men: ‘You could see right away that there was so much love between them,’ she told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper. ‘Why should God have anything against there being four of them rather than two?’” Should the ECHR legalize polygamy across the European Union, how long do you think it will be before a Muslim in America seeking to have all of his wives and kids recognized files a similar legal challenge here? (Hint: faster than Linda Sarsour can bash America). How many Islamic marriages have already happened in America? If the ECHR does do it, expect a severe cultural reaction out of several EU countries and the continued rise of populist parties. Such a move could herald the end of the EU.
Moving on…
Back on September 6, 2025, I wrote the column “Is America Edging Closer to a National Dissolution?,” which was a follow-up piece to my November 6, 2023, column “How Long Can America Defy History By Remaining, Well, THE UNITED States?.” The thrust of both pieces is that America seems to be headed to a break-up along Blue versus Red lines. In the former piece, I wrote:
Specifically, California, Oregon, and Washington are moving to create a “vaccine alliance” that rejects the federal government’s position on vaccines. California Governor Gavin Newsom spends virtually all of his time, along with Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, fighting Trump and every move he makes (and grossly hoping every breath he takes ceases). It seems if Trump is for it, Democrats are against it, including Trump’s efforts to reduce crime in America’s big cities, which disproportionately impacts minorities. Should Trump continue his war on urban crime in Blue cities and the results echo what he has done in Washington, D.C., urban voters of all stripes will reward him and his party in coming years. Don’t be surprised if we see a greater coming together of the Bell Curve Electorate I predicted back in October 2021 in which Americans of all races without a college degree come together in support of Trump and the MAGA movement.
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In my national dissolution piece, I wrote about the increasing push by local governments to become parts of other states. Greater Idaho in which the eastern counties in Oregon and Washington secede to Idaho has long been in progress. Recently, a California Assemblymember called for California to be split up into two states—a Blue state formed by coastal areas and a Red state formed by the interior parts of the state. The state would become New California. Indiana also invited several counties in Illinois to become part of Indiana given the short shrift those counties get from the supermajority Democrat control of Illinois. The Indiana legislature actually passed a bill to start this secession process. Interestingly, you don’t see the reverse happening—Blue counties trying to escape Red states.
In the last week, a West Virginia Republican filed a proposed bill “that would reunite his state with several conservative counties along the Virginia border extending toward Tennessee and North Carolina. A map of the areas in [Senator Chris] Rose’s bill published by Beckley’s NBC affiliate showed a several hundred-mile swath of Virginia from Big Stone Gap, down through Jonesville and extending north through Tazewell, Bland and Luray would be formally invited to join West Virginia.” If you live in southwestern Virginia, why would you not want to escape the mass of left-wing Northern Virginia?
More worrisome is that on the heels of losing the federal government shutdown, which was done because of New York Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer’s worry about losing a future primary to Democrat progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez, well-known Democrats are repeating their calls to kill the filibuster once back in power in order to stack the deck in their favor by adding Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., as states, which would give them four solid Democrat U.S. Senators; opening the border and giving ten million plus illegal immigrants citizenship to gain voters in key battleground states; and packing the U.S. Supreme Court with four more liberal justices so all of their legislation going forward will be found constitutional. As I’ve previously noted, states like Florida and Texas won’t tolerate being pushed into a permanent minority by left-wing Democrats who use their power to fundamentally alter the structure of the federal government (versus killing the filibuster to pass legislation favored by a majority of Americans).
So, whether it is Blue states led by California and Illinois should Republicans maintain control or Red states led by Florida and Texas should Democrats gain control and do what they say they want to do, as America becomes more and more divided, one side will eventually say “enough is enough” and move to legally separate from its political enemy. Abraham Lincoln wasn’t wrong when he said that a house divided could not stand. The Civil War was fought over the policy of slavery. The Civic War we are now fighting is over core ideological belief systems—liberal/progressivism versus conservatism/populism. Unlike the Civil War, I’m not sure victory by one side leads to the eventual acquiescence of the other side’s belief system.
Finally, speaking of divisions, there are few things I love more than when the Left is hoisted on its own petard of irony. Two days ago, Turning Points USA (TPUSA) held a gathering at the University of California-Berkeley campus. Left-wing protesters and Antifa thugs engaged in violence to intimidate and shut-up attendees (by the way, why has Antifa being designated as a terrorist group not resulted in ANY action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the U.S Department of Justice???). Do the violent, anti-free speech lefties not know that the Free Speech Movement started at UC-Berkeley in the mid-1960s? Did they also not know that their riotous ways to stop TPUSA and its allies from engaging in free speech occurred within steps of the famous Free Speech Movement Cafe? The irony was lost on every one of those left-wing rioters at UC-Berkeley, which itself is an indictment of America’s higher education system. For the Left, speech is only free if it is their speech.
Whether it is legal assaults on marriage, movements to reshape America, or left-wing violence here-there-everywhere, it seems there is trouble brewing wherever you look. Can you envision an end to all of this division? I wish I could, but I can’t. That deeply troubles me.
P.S. Apparently, Franklin County, Ohio, doesn’t believe it is bound by U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the unconstitutionality of affirmative action and other race-based programs. The Washington Free Beacon reported in “Ohio’s Largest County Funds A Medical Education Program That Only Admits Black Students. Experts Say It’s Illegal” that Franklin County is actively discriminating against non-Blacks. Specifically, the report noted:
Ohio’s most populous county funds a race-based medical education program that is only open to black students, an initiative lawyers say is patently unlawful and could put the county in legal jeopardy.
Franklin County, home of Columbus, Ohio, has funneled more than $600,000 to the Made for Medicine program since 2023, the year the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in college admissions. Designed to “increase Black representation in the medical field,” the program provides special courses, labs, and research opportunities to middle and high school students who “identify as African American or Black,” according to a frequently asked questions page.
Since the news report came out, Franklin County is quickly backpedaling, but one has to wonder how many of these types of programs exist in Blue jurisdictions across America? Odd, isn’t it, that the Left accuses the right of undermining “our Democracy” at the same time they intentionally ignore U.S. Supreme Court decisions and, more broadly, push to fundamentally alter the structures of “our Democracy.”.
