This report is chilling as it reasonably describes a number of disruptive events with a high probability of occurring that likely cause fundamental and detrimental changes to our way of life in Canada. The scary headline “civil war in America” is really the least of a multitude of bad things very likely coming our way.
What would this civil war be about?
The rhetoric that both political parties use is intentionally polarizing because they have no intention of actually solving the underlying problems. The mainstream is split across political lines, with democrats and republicans blaming the other side for all the ills in the country.
Most people in US lack the political or economic education to understand what’s happening leading to public lashing out in random and irrational ways. People understand that they’re being hurt, but they don’t understand who is responsible or why it’s happening. This creates a political climate that’s ripe for opportunists like Trump and Biden to game leading to further deterioration of living conditions. The country ends up in a worse state after each successive election cycle, and the sectarian tensions continue to become more prominent. Violent outbreaks are starting to happen already, and I expect these will only get worse going forward.
I have an idea in my mind that a civil war is an ideological conflict, the winner taking control of the state and enacting their preferred situation. Be that abolishing slavery or signing a treaty with the British… etc. in the end something changes. If red beats blue in the US. What changes?
I can’t see it being an actual war in a traditional sense. I would imagine it more like civil unrest, perhaps along the lines of the Rwandan civil war where armed right wing militias are going to start roaming around murdering people. It’s possible this could lead to Balkanization of US too.
Hm yes. I was going to say something along the lines of “History is full of examples of the masses tolerating incredible depths of poverty and suffering without resisting…”… but when I think about the culture of the USA, and the quantity of arms at everyone’s disposal, yeah it’s hard not to see it as a very dry powder keg with sparks flying around it.
