[harpseal]

In 1998 I was stating an a second Civil War in the USA was likely. We almost had the spark in November and December of 2000. The pressure is still building and it will go off unless there are some major changes. One thing that actually helped defer Civil War in the USA was 9/11/01. An attack on America from outside America will tend to bring us together.

Besides Praeger's not spending enough time on teh Second Ammendment there is another thing that needs to be included in the list of things that will help percipitate such a war. The destruction of the American economy by international unfair trade. As we have fewer and fewer jobs within the USA and more economic pressure on teh American middle class there will be fewer and fewer with a substantial stake in keeping things as they are and there will be an increase in radicalization of individuals.

[Travis McGee]

I can think of few groups of Americans who would be more "radicalized" than engineers, computer scientists and IT workers forced to train their half-salary foreign replacements for their last two months of employment.

Talk about folks ready to take up arms!

[Squantos]

Flyover country has the food.......city dwellers will consume themselves after they fail to collectivly gather their niwits. Their fake, staged for the presstitutes , sense of anger, burning down their own homes and communities, and robbing stores that have about 18 hrs of food on the shelves at any given time has always been followed up with federal and state welfare aid. Hopefully never again....... treat them as the enemies of this nation that they are.

Any such nation wide conflict will indeed bring about anarchy with no winners and those who let themselves be used against the republic will find themselves less than the losers they currently are.

Just my opinion of course.....Stay Safe , BLOAT & CACHE !

[Lazamataz]

In 1998 I was stating an a second Civil War in the USA was likely. We almost had the spark in November and December of 2000. The pressure is still building and it will go off unless there are some major changes. One thing that actually helped defer Civil War in the USA was 9/11/01. An attack on America from outside America will tend to bring us together.

The only problem with this scenario is that Civil Wars usually require geographic divisions of the peoples that are warring, or some other distinguishable characteristic (such as race in Zimbabwe). We are far too integrated for anything but a very low level of violence. More like acts of criminality, terrorism, and the like as opposed to the organization of armies to fight a standard war.

One thing that is NOT unlikely, is a Russian-style coup.