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.
Venezuela suffered complete economic collapse... and even with people starving, they didn’t have open civil war.
Open Civil War, is not anywhere on the immediate, short or even long term horizon for the US.
We may be heading toward another 60s type of situation where there are violent incidents and riots, but full on open warfare?? Not even close.
For the most part American’s are fat and happy, if anything life is getting so easy that we are more likely to decline from within to a point where eventually external forces take us out.. Much like Rome.... But outright civil war? There is nothing in our political discourse today that is remotely to the scale where open civil war is anywhere on the horizon.
I am 47, So I figure I probably got another 30-40 years left, barring major medical breakthroughs that vastly extend aging... So, while we are losing our nation due to indoctrination of the young in an educational system that practices educational malpractice, and teaches critical theory instead of critical thinking... That doesn’t lead to open warfare.
We already fought a civil war about federal power, and its place... now we are battling the administrative state, which was created by the courts, and will be beat back in the courts... Nothing else is of scope or scale to even think it will lead to civil war.
What will likely happen, however, is a hot war with China.