Historically accurate.
I don’t think we are going to avoid bloodshed over the next few years, no matter who is President.
Make no mistake that thinking ‘others’ went before us silently, quietly, into the long dark night. They faced mobs, refused to capitulate to the red guards and brownshirts...but it all still came for them too.
There is no place left to flee to freedom. We must accept out duty to protect it. And so now I wonder what my family thought during the first Civil War. They fought on both sides. Brothers split and a family literally ripped apart.
The coming CW aka CW2 will be much, much worse. There is little to no geographic separation of the warring parties. Neighbor against neighbor in almost every town in the USA. Think Yugoslavia in the early 90’s on a much broader scale. Mass atrocities, tons of irregulars engaged in asymmetrical warfare, assassinations, bombings, etc. The first civil war had a modicum of honor and ‘rules of war’ while intact the coming calamity will have none of that.
I’m not sure we fully understand that of which we are in the end of the beginning stages. Even a few years ago, I thought this a low probability, but alas... the die is cast.
If we go down that road now, it will be even worse because there will be no such thing as a geographical delineation to which people may migrate or flee too.
I know how you feel. My great grandfather left his family near Winchester Virginia and joined the 1st Ohio artillery battery L. Ended the war near his home. Never faced his brothers in battle but he couldn’t know that in the field.
He was in many bloody battles and saw the Shenandoah valley in ruins.
I often wonder what transpired in those years. No written record.
I am still in the process of doing more research.I
I plan on leaving a written record of this conflict, if I’m not killed in the first shots.