Civil unrest, driven by the populace, not by the politicians, happens when they are watching their children starve.... Little risk of that happening anytime soon.
We are a LONG way from any situation where you are going to see legislative bodies endorsing secession and open conflict.
What you are likely to see will be individual flare ups that ALWAYS happen even in the best of times....
One of these times these Antifa crowds are going to pick on the wrong person, and a bloodbath will result.... Sooner or later it won’t be a lonely wife hiding in a bedroom, but an armed, trained individual, who will mow them down like sheep. Those things will happen, but open true civil war, in terms of open conflict? Not likely.
I agree with your logical thoughts.
I think the advent of the 24 hour news cycle and social media tends to makes the people who care about politics and culture drastically overestimate the number of people who also care like they do, at least enough to deign to vote about it. But if you look at eligible voter turnout for the last 100 + years, it kind of tells another story.
Freegards
I partially agree, but we may differ in our definition of “soon”.
How long did it take for Venezuela to go from supporting most of its citizens adequately, to the present situation?
Also, how many recent large scale uprisings around the world have had legislative bodies’ support at the time things broke open? I can’t think of many.
IMO, civil war in the US is borderline possible in my lifetime. With luck, I’ll be around another 20-25 years. To me, that is “soon”. (The nukes scenario I mention might, might, come sooner.) Give these things 50 years, and the odds go way up.