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The hint should serve to remind us that, civil wars are often the end game to such completely opposite and irreconcilable differences.

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How do you fight a civil war with people who look just like you and even live next door to you? I don’t think civilians as such will fight it. But I can see hastily assembled militias and state troopers resisting federal incursion until the federal forces themselves disintegrate from internal divisions.

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How do you fight a civil war with people who look just like you and even live next door to you?

You start out by declaring secession from the union by certain states, those states being the most conservative ones, then, county by county can also declare their independence from their socialist states. Same with conservative states where certain counties might trend liberal.