re: Is Civil War possible in this country in this day and age?

It’s already underway. We’re in the “Bleeding Kansas” phase.

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A lot of these shitheads don't have the balls to die for their cause. They good at provoking and causing problems in groups. But if push came to shove and bullets started flying these dalits would be running for the fences.

Go back and read about the political climate pre-civil war. We really hated each other. Not this faux outrage we have now. The only reason Lincoln won was because of the in fighting of the Democratic party. Had they had any type of organization, we'd be 3-4 countries right now.

I have family that support BLM Antifa now these are family who i was raised with, their mind set is if you disagree with them, just one word they will snap , you could prove them wrong, it doesn’t matter, it will make them angrier, you have strangers on social media telling them to tell their family members to fk or worse , never thought this would happen

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There’s no dialogue possible with people like that.

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This is correct.

Rationality is worthless to a prog. Its all emotion based, situational fairy tales.

They don't have the capacity to understand the real world.

I have said this time and again.

NO we will not have an actual civil war in this country.

While I am NOT suggesting that Trump tried to either start one, wanted one, just...no...I'm not saying anything like that....what I AM saying is that if anyone had the power of the Presidency behind him, the so called "bully pulpit", and even after all that he could just gather a few ten thousand people to the Capital in what he said was a thing that really mattered.....if that was the best a "insurgent leader" could do (who was the PRESIDENT for God's sakes, with all that power, connections, media, etc) who on earth will be able to summon, say, 85,000 people in say, the state of Indiana, ready to take on the Indiana State National Guard and if needed the entire USA armed forces? And then if by miracle you do it in Indiana, will you have the logistics, staying power, moral authority to rally people behind you to do this in New Mexico, in Kansas, in New Jersey, in South Dakota, etc.

For goodness sakes all the USA would have to do is cut off your electricity for 10 days and turn off the telephones and internet. Poof. Insurgency over. If it gets really bad they can poison the water supply of most cities since many get their water from the Great Lakes, large open aquafiers, etc.

And who would lead this? Who would be followed? Trump? He's a disorganized mess. Who, some media guy like Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson? A politician like Ted Cruz?

By the way, without googling, when was the last time anywhere in the world - DONT GOOGLE - an actual military coup occured (not talking a war with an external enemy being lost like in Afghanistan or Iraq) where? I can think of Eastern Europe and pehaps Ghaddaffi in Libya qualifies.

And finally don't underestimate what a civil war would do to our money security (who takes over Fort Knox or the NY Reserve Bank where most of the Gold ACTUALLY is?), things like copyrights, intellectual property, who issues passports? Who pays social security to our elderly? They are supposed to starve? The new government? With what money, the gold reserves?

It would not go down like you are thinking.

In America a postal worker makes something like 65k a year. If he or she is married and his or her spouse does the same job, maybe they made on the job, they make 130k.

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They probably have a nice house (especially if they make that in the countryside) and a new car, paid medical and a relatively good pair of cars. They have air conditioning. Flat screen. Go out now and then to a movie or a chain restaurant (not being a snob, that is exactly what I did last night).

Even with all the problems in this country when you have mail carriers and their spouses live well and dive a relatively nice Toyota and can go on vacation and don't worry about whether they can drink the tap water, no, in those kinds of countries revolutions don't start.

I most certainly have.