[VanDeKoik]

It will be like the Troubles in N. Ireland.

No one is going to tolerate any type of mass organized armies roaming around, causing chaos.

[Leaning Right]

> It will be like the Troubles in N. Ireland. No one is going to tolerate any type of mass organized armies roaming around, causing chaos. <

I think you’ve got it right. There will be no civil war in the foreseeable future, for the reasons I mentioned in my post #13.

But the Troubles, yes. If a few flag-waving conservatives would wander into the wrong neighborhood, bad things would happen. If a few antifa types would wander into the wrong neighborhood, bad things would happen.

And maybe somebody from group A would decide to throw a bomb through the window of Group B’s headquarters.

But huge militias maneuvering against each other? That’s just a fantasy, for now at least. In a hundred years, who knows?

[Boogieman]

If there are mass organized armies roaming around, I think it will be them who will be deciding what they want to tolerate...

[archy]

It will be like the Troubles in N. Ireland.

Perhaps it will. Most of the violence of the troubles in Ireland was made by about 200-250 people in the provisional Irish Republican Army. Two hundred against the Irish police, the British Army, the Protestants, the 14th Intelligence Corps, the SAS and Frank Kitson's particularly nasty form of counterintelligence.

The Brits didn't stand a chance. Less wholesale assassinations, the Irish Marxists could have kept it up forever.

Major General Sir "Bloody" Frank Kitson, 1971, now Knight Commander (The Most Honourable Order of the Bath)