Posted on 07/06/2018 10:54:32 AM PDT by davikkm
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was relentlessly mocked this week for suggesting that the left-wing was going to start a second civil war on the 4th of July. The ridicule was fair as Jones’ bold claim was likely just a publicity stunt. However, I believe the chances of a second civil war occurring in the near future are a lot greater than some may realize.
Just search “list of civil wars” on Wikipedia. This will give you an idea of how common it is for a country to go to war with itself. History reveals that there has almost never been a time when a civil war wasn’t being fought. This may come as a massive surprise to many Americans because recent generations have been spoiled with a very long period of peace and prosperity. To most Americans, a civil war is unthinkable. Even with hostilities nearing the point of eruption, only 31% of Americans believe a civil war is likely.
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0% chance - the US military would not support it in any way.
Amicable divorce seems out of the question.
The left would love to have a civil war. Typical communist tactic: destabilize the civil order, take advantage of the confusion to have a revolution. Install communist dictatorship.
The probability goes up if Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg assumes room temperature while Trump is in office.
I’d say it’s pretty probable, but I’m unsure of the timeframe.
No chance.
Possibly some violent clashes but you have to have at least two Armies to have a war, and that won’t happen.
Erring sisters, depart in peace.
We can only hope.
Agreed.
We can drive the probability to near zero by declaring Antifa a terrorist organization (which it is by any reasonable definition) and arresting its leadership structure.
If Civil War 2 starts, those are the ones who are going to be starting it.
One could say that nation is already in a state of civil war with the outcome to be decided in the 2018 Congressional mid term elections.
Ask yourself.
Which side has all the guns and weapons? The right side or the wrong side?
Then ask yourself how long the wrong side would last?
All they could really do is trash and burn the cities. Liberal cities.
Civil War? Yeah, right.
At the beginning of 1859, a Civil War was unthinkable.
Kurt Schlicter (who sometimes posts on FR) has a couple good books on this subject:
“People’s Republic” and “Indian Country”.
I highly recommend them.
0%.
The left are lazy and incompetent whiners. They are violent, but they won’t get off the couch to go 5 miles to any war.
Not even sure what a ‘conspiracy theorist’ actually means, but the colloquial meaning is essentially ‘paranoid nutjob’.
That is an unfair characterization of Mr. Jones by Daniel Carter, the author of this article.
That would be interesting to see if they intervene or not. I can see the leftists trying to pull off an Iranian style revolution. Especially since over 65% of DC brass is in the bag with them.
Its not “probable”. Its historically INEVITABLE.
Large empires on the decline experience revolts, secession, civil wars. Its a historical inevitability. The more oppressive the government, the more violent the inevitable breakup is.
You can no more repeal the law of human nature than you can repeal the law of gravity. (Someone tell the ‘wet-behind-the-ears’ whizz kids of today’s Facebook/Google/etc ‘social media revolution’). They literally don’t know what they are playing with - in terms of the radical, and mostly negative, changes wrought in social interaction by the “social media”.
This is actually hastening the coming of the inevitable strife ... by serving to further alienate people from each other - “digital Balkanization”, if you will ...
The Founding Fathers crafted the best system yet for self-government. But it is wholly dependent on the virtue and self-discipline of the populace. As John Adams stated:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
“At the beginning of 1859, a Civil War was unthinkable.”
Actually, by 1850, a war was already in the works.
The difference is that it was regional, not individually political as we have today.
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