Radical Leftist Calls for ‘Economic Civil War’ – ‘Blue States Have All The Money And Must Starve The Red States Into Submission’

A new video out from former mainstream leftist commentator Keith Olbermann was posted to Twitter by the host of the ‘Countdown‘ podcast. He’s gone a bit more fringe since his days at MSNBC but now Olbermann is back in the headlines because he’s once again said something very, very incendiary and extremely concerning. He has called for the United States to go into an “economic civil war.”

Olbermann tweeted that blue states “must financially starve the red States, the Gun Lobby, the GOP, the Death Lobby, and the crooked judiciary into submission.”

“We are OWNED by guns. Only one thing will change that.

“We must have Economic Civil War. Blue States must financially starve the Red States, the Gun Lobby, the GOP, the Death Lobby, and the crooked judiciary into submission.

“NOW.”

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— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) February 15, 2023

He tweeted that, but that’s not actually what he said.

Look at what he said,

“We are owned by guns and therefore there is only one way to stop the mass shootings.

It is to suffocate the businesses that make billions of dollars in profits off guns to destroy the gun lobby, the death lobby, and the Republican Party that defends those lobbies and those businesses and the only way to do that is an economic civil war.

The blue states have all the money. They must starve the red states into submission.”

See what he said there? Do you see the difference? In his tweet, he sanitizes the remark, but in the video, he doesn’t say that we need to starve the businesses.

He says, the Blue States “have all the money and need to starve the Red States into submission.”

“And the only way to do that is an economic civil war.

The blue states have all the money.

They must starve the red states into submission.

Or another 600,000 Americans will be murdered in the next 10 to 12 years.”

Keith Olbermann decided that it’s good policy to push America just a little bit closer to violent division because that’s what he’s talking about doing here.

He’s talking about the progressive socialist portions of the United States, blockading the country economically.

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Olbermann seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how our country is divided. The United States hasn’t been divided into red states versus blue states, it isn’t that simple.

It’s blue cities, red country, it’s exactly the layout that you see in the electoral maps that are broken down by congressional district or by county.

This county map is COMPLETELY FALSE. This is the actual county map for the 2020 election. pic.twitter.com/n1Uv2HnfEN

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So his suggestion is that the vast majority of the cities just stop doing business with the rest of the United States.

And his plan is that they’re going to starve out the red states.

The cities aren’t growing a ton of food, are they? Really, no.

And suggesting that the blue states have all the money? There are some people in Texas and in Florida that would object to that, such as the droves of corporations and millionaires who are flocking there for better economic outcomes and more rational policies.

While Keith Olbermann is calling for an economic civil war, a second civil war is quickly becoming a trope on the left. Thom Hartmann laid out his vision of a Second American Civil War on Feb. 7th, laying the blame in equal parts on former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. If you were to believe social media you could be forgiven for thinking this is a right-leaning conceit, but most conservative and libertarian takes on the increasing tensions are cautionary. On the left, however, they seem to be anticipating it.

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