When you see cities destroyed and thousands dead, then you will have a real civil war.
At some point after being pushed too far, the right, and center, (those too busy making a living to protest) will push back, only it won’t be with picket signs and chants, but surgical executions with military precision for a start, and it goes much worse from there. And don’t misunderstand, I am not condoning it at all, but I do see it as inevitable if present trends continue, so I agree with Dennis Praeger.
But the left shouldn’t fear ‘right wing extremists’, as long as those on the right are not disenfranchised by our system. But the government and education institutions and media better start condoning the enforcing the laws equally, against their ideological comrades or this will get out of hand.
“Detroit? Baltimore? Chicago?? “Cities destroyed and thousands dead” ARE happening in slow motion in what is an ideological war, but it just has no front lines. And it may never have a front line as in the first Civil War.”
Gang violence =/= civil war, nor is a degraded neighborhood = a destroyed city.
It helps to keep things in preservative. People go to sporting events in downtown Detroit on any given day. Hardly an example of a even a slow motion war.
When you have people going about their mundane lives in these same towns, and business is normal, it makes a lot of the alarmist talk sound kooky.
like I said, these little street fights in a couple of college towns are being overblown into something they are not.
Not saying the nation doesn’t have some deep divides, just that we have always had them, and they were far more pronounced at other points in history.