[DiogenesLamp]

I think the conservative side will win this time because they have most of the guns, and the liberals mostly live in the City which would become death traps.

A few insurgents can bring a city to it's knees in a week, let alone what an army of them can do.

[ealgeone]

I think the conservative side will win this time because they have most of the guns, and the liberals mostly live in the City which would become death traps.

I would not underestimate the Left on this issue. History shows they will be ruthless in their goal. They do not play by our rules nor have our morality.

Recall Ayers said it would take ~20m casualties to bring about the kind of change they wanted. And I believe he was deadly serious.

[PUGACHEV]

Unlike 1860, the are not two sides in conflict clearly defined by state lines and culture. Instead, there is a general disillusionment concerning many things. The sides in conflict are not two, but many. A civil war now would begin more like the disorganized and chaiotic start the Russian Revolution, than the organized attack on Ft. Sumpter.

[Ohioan]

One of the several major premises of my novel Return of the Gods, is that the side that rises first, in such a new conflagration, will lose.

If the writer (me, through a major character), is correct, George Soros has miscalculated very seriously. I invite your prayers that my premise is correct.

[cld51860]

I still have a few conservative friends that roll their eyes when I mention the prospect of civil war. I wonder if anyone was rolling their eyes in 1860.

[SuperLuminal]

"A few insurgents can bring a city to it's knees in a week, let alone what an army of them can do."

Yep! Like, over past centuries, you surround and cut off the castle/city from food and water supplies...Will save lots of ammo...Cities/castles like NYC would self-destruct in a couple of weeks...