Exactly, we are the fattest, most comfortable and passively entertained and least used to sustained physical labor of any population ever. It’s hard for me to imagine any past civil war ever jumping off with our current societal conditions. We have done amazing things with our version of bread and circuses like making the poorest the most likely to be obese.
FReegards
Yes, exactly. They’ve already overtaken, and firmly control virtually every institution in the country. Another ten years our demographic will start dying of old age in earnest. Future is bleak, save some black swan event.
In the Civil War, in most wars, you had the politicians and diplomats with the real quarrels and the mass of people who had to fight the war. Today, everybody's a politician and nobody's in shape to fight the war (except the professionals and maybe the fanatics). Too many generals and not enough privates. And the fact that, in contrast to the 1860s (or the 1940s) everybody is used to speaking their own mind all the time about everything means that it wouldn't be possible to keep order in the trenches and keep everyone on the same team and get things done.