Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Is the US Headed Towards Another Civil War? | Barbara F. Walter | TED" video.

The whole "It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when." line from the Bruce Willis '98 movie Armageddon applies to this subject as well. Good luck everyone. If history rhymes then in a few years things are going to go crazy world-wide for a couple of decades. Enjoy the roaring 20's while they last.
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Depending on how and where a civil war happened it might not be all that bad for the donor class. There's always money to be made in war and chaos, even when it's happening at home. If nothing else real estate will become real cheap and the oligarchs and plutocrats love a good bargain.
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@BurtKuttstadt Maybe - that's that's the thing with history rhyming. I see the war on Terror as something more akin to the decades long military intervention in Central and South America the US started in 1904 with the Roosevelt Corollary and continued for decades to help US corporations. There's also that idea of an 80-year cycle so that the War on Terror was the WW1 event, the financial crash happened in 2008, and Putin invading Ukraine is the comparative WW2 event in which case the 2030's should be pretty sweet. But with COVID happening just about 100 years after the Spanish Flu pandemic it's easy to keep with the 100-year cycle comparison too. And our booming economy reads to me like what it was historically back during the 1920's. Guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens in a few years.
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@RidingwithStymie Even the US Civil War was largely fought in the secessionist states. If there is another one, I'd suspect the actual fighting will mostly happen in the areas where MAGA rebels have gathered. Like you said, there would be acts of infrastructure sabotage, attacks on minority communities, and political assassinations in Federalist held territories, but probably not much organized conflict. I don't know if we'd see people having picnics like at the battle of Bull Run, but I suspect people would quickly start to loose any sympathy for them and start calling for harsh treatment and sentencing. It would probably be less Second Civil War and more of another extended police action. If anything, it might be the how we end up with 21st century Soylent Green or Judge Dread-esque Mega-cities and a largely abandoned rural no-go zone. It's a common trope in Cyberpunk and other dystopian future stories, shows, and movies. People can dump on my referencing works of fiction to predict future events. But much like how history rhymes, life does tend to imitate art.
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